TELECENTRE EUROPE | ANNUAL REPORT 2015
Ongoing
projects
DigitalJobs: Addressing the mismatch between supply and
demand for ICT practitioners
As part of its Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs aimed to fill the growing
number of vacant ICT-related jobs across Europe, the Commission has
established under the DigitalJobs project a Secretariat tasked to address
the mismatch between supply and demand for ICT practitioners.
Period:
Feb 2014 - Jan 2016
Source of funding:
European Commission
Coordinator:
Secretariat of the Grand
Coalition for Digital Jobs
Telecentre Europe in collaboration with project leaders from 13
organisations active in the IT, education and SME communities form
the Secretariat of the Grand Coalition with a defined scope to boost the
Commission’s programme through a five-pronged strategy for reducing
the skills gap in Europe:
❶ ICT Training: promoting Europe-wide student placement
programmes with ICT employers and working with existing ICT
training providers to improve their offering to students
❷ Mobility: helping get trained people in one part of
Europe placed into vacant jobs elsewhere in the EU
❸ Certification: strengthening ICT professionalism and
foster recognition of ICT-related qualifications across EU
member states
❹ Awareness raising: raising awareness of the Grand
Coalition for Digital jobs
❺ New forms of ICT education: promoting the supply
side for ICT jobs creation through more aligned educational
schemes (e.g. MOOCS) and structural changes inside
educational systems.
Telecentre Europe’s role in the Secretariat is heavily
related to the scalability and sustainability of the
Grand Coalition, using as a main tool the National
and Local Coalitions for Digital Jobs. In 2015,
Telecentre Europe and the Secretariat grew the
number of existent coalitions to 21, while other 4 are
under formation.
The National Coalitions (NCs) and Local Coalitions
(LCs) are defined as multi-stakeholder partnerships
which promote and exploit the actions and
outcomes of the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs in
each Member State. Their role is to promote and
To support the existing Coalitions and the
stakeholders interested to build new Coalitions,
Telecentre Europe published a Toolkit available
HERE. 10 members of Telecentre Europe are involved
in Coalitions in their countries.
- DIGITAL EUROPE (BE), BRAINPORT (NL), CIONET (BE), DIITEK (DK), ECDL Foundation (IE), ECTW (NO), EUROCIO (BE), EMPIRICA
(DE), ESKILLS (UK), EUN (BE), MITA (MT), NUIM (IE), PIN-SME (BE).
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implement actions tied to the Grand Coalition. Any
actions that can contribute to helping bridge the gap
between people looking for jobs in the ICT market
and industry (all sectors) can be considered. NCs and
LCs can focus on those actions most appropriate to
their local circumstances.