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The Current E-Skills Gap in Europe

ICT workforce development 2011: 2012 and expected development until 2015 by ICT job categories in Europe Source: Eurostat LFS, IDC Europe. empirica calculations and forecasts (Gareis, K., Hüsing, T., Bludova, …

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Forecasting the e-Skills Gap: More than 500.000 vacant ICT jobs in Europe by 2015

ICT job vacancies 2012: 2015 in Europe Source: Eurostat LFS, IDC Europe. empirica calculations and forecasts (Gareis, K., Hüsing, T., Bludova, I., Schulz, C., Korte, W.B.: e-Skills: Monitoring and Benchmarking …

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Fifth Cluster Event in Germany – The way forward towards e-Leadership in Germany and Bavaria

German industry representatives sent clear signals that there is a growing and critical lack of e-leaders in the economy. The Technical University Munich and St. Gallen University presented the results …

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What can Europe do to tackle the skills-related challenges in KETs?

For Europe to be able to fully realise KETs growth potential in the future, there is a need to align the supply and demand of KETs skills from both qualitative …

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European study revealed: Urgent need for e-leadership higher and executive education courses

Feedback from the European e-Skills 2013 conference audience to whom this had been presented was very positive in so far as they agreed to the urgent need for Europe to …

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e-Skills for Jobs 2014: Mobilising to Support Job Creation and Upskilling of the Workforce, 6 May 2014 – Ethniki Conference Centre, Athens, Greece

During the course of 2014, the e-Skills for Jobs campaign is taking place in 30 European countries, informing students, unemployed people, ICT professionals and SMEs about the vast range of …

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Conference in Brussels on “The International Dimension of e-Skills and the Impact of Globalization” 26 March 2014

Despite its crucial importance and influence the ICT profession remain immature compared to others such as the legal, medical, and engineering professions, with respect to agreed bodies of knowledge, competences, …

Skills & Future of Work
EU Member States are increasingly addressing e-Skills shortages

Compared to a previous assessment released in 2010 the e-skills activity index measuring national policy and stakeholder activity by assessing national policies and initiatives in the e-skills domain has increased …

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ITMB: IT Management for Business bachelor’s degree that forms the basis for future e-leaders

Around 2003 e-skills UK, the country’s Skills Sector Council for the ICT industry, together with a number of employers, discussed measures against the skills gap in ICT. The priority was …

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e-Leadership skills are entering the European policy agenda

An on-going European Commission research activity revealed that from more than 1000 programmes identified and analysed only around 20 bear the potential for an e-leadership programme in the future since …

Skills & Future of Work
Skills for Key Enabling Technologies – Putting Europe back on track in the race for competitiveness and bridging to growth and jobs

An innovative, sustainable Europe depends on the development and growth of key enabling technologies (KETs): “¢ micro- and nanoelectronics, “¢ advanced materials, “¢ industrial biotechnology, “¢ photonics, “¢ nanotechnology “¢ …

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World Economic Forum Launches Final Report on Fostering Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship in Europe

The Report is the result of a yearlong project aiming at promoting long-term growth and job creation in Europe by significantly improving the conditions for innovation-driven entrepreneurship as the remedy …