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General, Skills & Future of Work
e-Skills gap and digital jobs vacancies to increase – Potential for more than half a million unfilled new jobs for ICT practitioners by 2015 in Europe. To fill these jobs, many Member States need to step up policy action

The authors also expect the trend towards higher-level skills in ICT jobs to continue. The main forecast scenario suggests that by 2020 the number of ICT management, architecture and analysis …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Do all workers in KETs domains need to be entrepreneurs?

Stakeholders emphasize the importance of working on opening up the minds of people and making them aware of entrepreneurial opportunities and how to act upon those. It is, however, more …

Skills & Future of Work
The most substantial challenges are demonstrating effective leadership and finding, developing, and retaining IT talent: Results from a recent McKinsey survey on business technology

Some extracts relevant to e-leadership have been extracted from the report and are presented below: [“¦] Amid the increasing pressure and dissatisfaction, the enthusiasm to replace management highlights the concerns …

General, Skills & Future of Work
Fourth Cluster Event in Italy – Italy launches a national e-skills strategy with an emphasis on e-leadership

Several top-level executives from large Italian industry and businesses present at the event (Il Sole 24 Ore, Hewlett Packard, Assintel, Sematic, Don Gnocchi Foundation etc.) strongly argued for an improved …

General, Skills & Future of Work
“e-Skills and e-Leadership Skills 2020. Trends and Forecasts” Working Paper, May 2015, available online

Referring to a recent Working Paper from empirica the Commission indicates that demand for digitally skilled employees is growing by around 4% a year and that shortages of ICT professionals …

General, Skills & Future of Work
European e-Leadership curriculum profiles endorsed by European industry leaders

Peter Hagedoorn, Secretary General of the Association, believes that the curriculum profiles go a long way to creating a simpler way of navigating through the jungle of executive education programmes …

Skills & Future of Work
Second Cluster Event in the UK Henley Business School show the way on e-Leadership education

Messages on the importance of integrating understanding of advanced IT and business innovation methods were very well-received. Empirica reported recent comprehensive research on the European landscape of programmes combining these …

Skills & Future of Work
First e-Competence Assessment certificates handed out

Like in the Curriculum Profile development in the European Commission e-leadership initiative ‘European Guidelines and Quality Labels for new Curricula Fostering e-Leadership Skills’ EXIN also bases the e-Competence Assessment (http://www.ecfassessment.org/en/1/home) …

Skills & Future of Work
10 Regional Cluster Events on “New Curricula for e-Leadership: Delivering Skills for an Innovative and Competitive Europe” to take place throughout Europe from May 2014 onwards

It is against this background that 10 events will be organised by the European Commission in cities across the entire European Union in cities like Sofia (20 May 2014), Reading …

Skills & Future of Work
The Digital World in 2030. What place for Europe? – European Internet Foundation (EIF) report released

In the chapter on e-skills and competencies the report refers to recent work carried out in European Commission service contracts when stating the “recent modelling based on 2012 data shows …

Skills & Future of Work
First case studies about entrepreneurship education at European universities published

In May 2015, empirica concluded the study “supporting the entrepreneurial potential of higher education” (sepHE), on behalf of the European’s Directorate-General Education and Culture. The main objective of this study …

Skills & Future of Work
Software Campus: an innovative e-leadership programme for excellence

In 2015 empirica completed the evaluation of the Software Campus initiative. Software Campus is a unique cooperation between government, education and industry that supports young researchers in ICT. Each participant …