Digital skills&

the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs

Heidi CiganDG CONNECT F4 – October 2015

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Digital skills for whom?

• Impact of digitisation on the labour force.

• 90% of jobs require some level of digital skills whatever the sector; all jobs will change and many will disappear.

• 40% of enterprises trying to recruit ICT professionals have difficulty doing so.

• Highly digitally equipped schools are on average a reality for only 37% of grade 4 students, 24% of grade 8 students, and 50% of grade 11 vocational students.

• ≈ 20-25% of students are taught by digitally confident and supportive teachers having access to ICT and facing low obstacles to their use at school.

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Why digital skills must be high up the agenda

Yet, 40% of the EU population has insufficient digital skills, 22% has none at all…

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and 32% of the EU workforce has insufficient digital skills,13% has no digital skills at all.

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'Job potential’ for ICT jobs• skills development does not come about as fast as

technological development

• 2015:337,000 unfilled vacancies (for ICT professionals)

• 2020:825,000 unfilled vacancies

AND: all jobs will require digital skills

• Source: Empirica, May 2015

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What has been done so farto address the gap?

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• Communications on Re-thinking Education and on Opening-up

Education, eSkills for Jobs strategy and communication

campaign, …

• Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs (March 2013) multi-

stakeholder partnership (education, business and employment)

to tackle the ICT professionals skills gap through:

• Concrete local actions on the ground

• Job placement programmes and ICT trainings

• Alignment of degrees and curricula with labour/job market needs

• Motivating young people to study ICT and pursue related carreers

Grand Coalition priority areas for action

Innovative learning & education, including "coding"

Awareness raising

ICT training

mobility

Certification

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Over ≈60 Grand Coalition pledges by ≈100 stakeholders

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Pledges on Training and Matching for Digital Jobs

Accenture Cisco Smart Grid Liberty Global

Adobe Cloud Credential Council Microsoft

Altran Campus DC Professional Development SAP

Altran I-Project Didasca Stichting Vrouwen Aan Het Werk

Altran Foundation Digital Skills Academy Telefonica

BBC Fast-track to IT (FIT) Telerik

Cisco Certification GEYC Resources Center Ubiqum Code Academy

Hewlett-Packard Intel   Didasca

Google National College for Digital Skills

Pledges on CertificationCertiadria European Computer Driving License Foundation

(ECDL)Rete Competenze per l' Economia Digitale

Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) European eSkills Association WePROMIS® - ECWT, PROMIS@Service, BCWT

Pledges on Innovative Learning & Teaching Autodesk Google SAMSUNG

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Informatics Europe The Corporate IT Forum

BEBRAS INLEA University of Piraeus

European Schoolnet ORACLE  

Pledges on MobilityMake IT in Ireland    

Pledges on Awareness RaisingBubble Everis Sheffield Community Network

CIONET Girls in Tech Luxembourg University of Sheffield

CSR Europe Hellenic Professionals Informatics Society (HePIS) YouRock

Digital Leadership Institute Inspiring Fifty  Zen Digital

DigitalJobs

Pledges on National and Local Initiatives Digitally Skilled & Digitally Safe Municipality of Halmstad, Sweden Spanish Grand Coalition for a Digital Economy

Telecentre Europe

• 13 national coalitions: BE, BG, CY, EL, IT, LV, LT, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, UK

• To follow: HU, ES, AT, DE, …

• Local coalitions are often

stepping stones for national coalitions

• Toolkit to guide stakeholders in set-up

National/Local Coalitions for Digital Jobs

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Next steps to address the gap (1)

• Digital Single Market Communication "address digital

skills and expertise as a key component of future initiatives

on skills and trainings", e.g.• Draft Commission and Member States Joint Report on Education

&Training 2020 (published on 1/09/2015);

• Forthcoming EU skills strategy (early 2016)

• Adress digital skills at the highest political level;

• Involve social partners in the debate;

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Next steps to address the gap (2)

• Use funding better at national and European level

• Anticipate and analyse skills needs better• Studies on ICT in the workplace, more knowledge about vacancies

• Scale multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Grand

Coalition and the Alliance for Apprenticeships• more ICT-using companies, social partners, VET providers, business

associations, national coalitions

• Support Member States to modernise education

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Discussion with you

• What do we have to do to make better use of ESF for

digital skills training?

• How to link up national actors and funds available?

• Which target groups could be funded (unemployed,

employed, SMEs, teachers, learners, …) and how can we

make it happen?

• What about more innovative ideas such as skills

vouchers?

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