Filling the Gap: e-Skills for Jobs - Andre Richier

Filling the Gap: e-Skills for JobsFostering Competitiveness and Growth

EDEN Conference, Zagreb, 12 June 2014

Communication on e-SkillsAdopted by the Commission on 7 September 2007

• The Communication on “e-Skills for the 21st Century” includes a long-term e-skills strategy. It was followed by:

• Council Conclusions on the e-skills strategy Competitiveness Council on 23 November 2007

• Europe 2020 Flagships adopted in 2010 (Digital Agenda, Innovation Union, News Skills for Jobs etc.)

• Employment Package (2012)• Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs (4-5 March 2013)• European Council Conclusions (24-25 October 2013)• External Evaluation (2010 and 2013)

e-Skills Strategy: Main Priorities

Developing a Shared Vision and Forecast Scenarios

Monitoring the Evolution of Supply and Demand

Benchmarking Policies and Stakeholders Partnerships

Promoting ICT Professionalism and e-Leadership

Developing Curricula Development Guidelines

Promoting e-Learning and e-Inclusion

Raising Awareness and Evaluating Progress

ICT Workforce Growth in Europe

The Growing Gap: Three Scenarios (2012-2020)

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Main Forecast Scenario

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Stagnation

730,000

274,000

558,000

DisruptiveBoost

1,346,000

• Demand keeps growing despite crisis• Growth trend in core jobs between 2 to 4%• Management jobs up to 8% growth p.a. • Technician/associate level jobs declining• Need to continuously increase the quality of e-skills

• Job growth largest in highly skilled jobs• Management, Architecture and Analytics positions, where also

e-Leadership skills are required. Usually recruited from seasoned practitioner pool and other (non-ICT) managers.

• New job profiles not yet fully covered in classification, such as Big Data and Cloud computing specialists

European e-Competence Framework

A common pan-European framework for ICT practitioners in all industry sectors : it is a reference framework of 36 ICT competences that can be used by ICT user and supply companies, the public sector, educational and social partners across Europe. The framework provides a pan-European tool for:

ICT practitioners and managers, with guidelines for their competence development HR managers, enabling the anticipation and planning of competence requirements Education and training, enabling effective planning and design of ICT curricula Policy makers and market researchers, providing a clear and Europe-wide agreed

reference for ICT skills and competences in a long-term perspective

www.eskillslandscape.eu

The Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs (March 2013)

• The Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs should be strengthened to address skills mismatches…;

• Part of the European Structural and Investment Funds (2014-2020) should be used for ICT education, support for retraining, and vocational education and training in ICT, including through digital tools and content, in the context of the Youth Employment Initiative;

• A higher degree of integration of digital skills in education, from the earliest stages of school to higher education, vocational education and training and lifelong learning should be ensured;

EU Council Conclusions (24-25 October 2013)

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Towards a Digital Economy Importance of Policy Initiatives on e-Skills

Collect info on skills gaps at local

level Provide financial

support for additional ICT

training

Work with industry to provide high quality

ICT education through dual learning schemes

Provide open education resources

Improve professional development of

teachers

Offer services to improve cross-border mobility

Promote the use of the e-Competence

Framework

What should policy makers do?

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Identify and exchange best practices

http://www.linkedpolicies.eu/pledge/

e-Leadership

Definitions

e-Leadership Initiative

• The goal is to increase our digital talent pool by promoting better education and training fostering e-leadership skills based on the needs of businesses

Initial focus (2013): innovation empowerment for IT executives and CIOs in medium to large enterprises

Complementary initiative (2014) targeting entrepreneurs, managers and advanced ICT users in SMEs, start-ups and gazelles

• Approach• Survey of existing relevant curricula and programs• Best practice identification at European level• Development of quality criteria and guidelines with

leading stakeholders from business and academia • Multi-region pilot demonstration and dissemination

e-Leadership Candidate and Potential Programmes in Europe (provisional)

Portfolio of e-Leadership Curriculum Profiles

e-Leadership Curriculum Profiles • define programme learning outcomes to deliver emerging

requirements for e-leadership competences;• help align demand and supply of e-Leadership curricula• respect autonomy of educational institutions• increase transparency for students and employers• Encourage and support teaching innovation

Initial portfolio• Business and Enterprise Architecture• Innovation and Transformation through ICT• Information Security Governance

www.eskills4jobs.gr

Contact

André Richier

European Commission

DG Enterprise and Industry

Key Enabling Technologies and Digital Economye-mail: andré[email protected]

websites: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/e-skills/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/documents/e-skills/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/grand-coalition-digital-jobs-0