The e-Skills Week campaign aims to raise awareness of the growing demand of highly skilled ICT practitioners and users within the industry. DIGITALEUROPE and European Schoolnet have come together with 20 national partners to promote e-skills whilst building bridges between the different stakeholders. The culmination of the campaign will be the European e-Skills Week taking place in the first week of March 2010
The campaign is funded by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry which has launched this important initiative as part of the EU e-skills strategy.
“Today, e-skills and computer literacy are a competitive advantage on the job market”, said Bridget Cosgrave, Director General of DIGITALEUROPE. “The technologies are developing very fast and it is essential to help SMEs and entrepreneurs to keep up with the technology development to remain competitive."
“Fewer and fewer young people decide to study technology at tertiary level in Europe, and the European e-Skills Week campaign will help to change this situation, by helping students to get realistic views of IT studies and careers, meet inspiring role models and get their hands on inspiring technology”, said Marc Durando, Executive Director of European Schoolnet.
Public authorities, ICT companies as well as schools and students
are working together to organise a range of exciting events, training
sessions, school visits, competitions and more, to underline the importance of ICT skills in today's society, and to demonstrate the wide range of job opportunities in the field.
The campaign ultimately aims to increase ICT skills among professionals
and to encourage more young people to take up ICT studies and careers.
The European e-Skills week is expected to bring 300,000 participants in more than 100 activities.
The events will take place across Europe with more than 20
participating countries. This exciting collaboration ensures that the
European e-Skills Week 2010 shall be one that is both informative and
memorable to a wide and diverse audience.
