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Ongoing projects
Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition
period: July 2017 - July 2018
source of funding: Service contract, DG Connect,
European Commission
coordinator: Digital Europe
website: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/
digital-skills-jobs-coalition
The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition (DSJC) is one of the
ten key initiatives proposed by the Commission under
the New Skills Agenda for Europe. The Coalition works to
bridge the digital skills gap in Europe through concrete
pledges by stakeholders and strategic actions developed
by national coalitions.
The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition grew in mandate,
governance and impact in 2017. Actions made through
pledges (concrete actions to bridge the digital skills gaps)
and national coalitions saw over seven million Europeans
trained and reached.
ALL DIGITAL continued to support the actions of the
Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition with their pledge engaging
members and stakeholders in digital skills through their
annual Get Online Week campaign. Whilst our pledge
emphasises the potential of digital competence centres in
bridging the digital skills gap in Europe, much work remains
to be done to see all European citizens included in today’s
digital world. Nearly half of Europeans lack the digital skills
needed by modern society, while training and education
isn’t keeping pace with technology and innovations.
ALL DIGITAL, as part of the secretariat of the Digital Skills
and Jobs Coalition, works to scale up national coalitions
so every European country has a public-private-and-
non-government partnership creating and implementing
solutions adapted to national and local contexts. In 2017,
national coalitions were formed in Portugal, Slovenia,
Ireland, Luxembourg, Spain and France.
Also in 2017, a Governing Board has been put together to
ensure leadership and continuation of DSJC; ALL DIGITAL
is proud to have its President, Mara Jakobsone, involved as
a member of the Board.
The number of pledges to bridge the digital skills gap
rose to 90. The number of organisations who support the
coalition by supporting the Digital Skills and jobs Coalition
Charter rose to over 300.
Digitaal.Talent earned prominent recognition by winning
the Digital Skills for All category in the second annual
European Digital Skills awards. Their initiative was
awarded and recognised by the Commissioner for the
Digital Economy, Mariya Gabriel, at the second annual
Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Conference in Brussels.