Saturday marked the opening of the fifth edition of EU Code Week, which runs from 7-22 October 2017, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to take part. Schools, businesses, not-for-profits, local libraries and more are all organising events to showcase how you can bring ideas to life with code. Today, 90% of jobs require digital skills, but 44% of Europeans have no or low...

Saturday marked the opening of the fifth edition of EU Code Week, which runs from 7-22 October 2017, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to take part. Schools, businesses, not-for-profits, local libraries and more are all organising events to showcase how you can bring ideas to life with code.

Today, 90% of jobs require digital skills, but 44% of Europeans have no or low skills in this domain. Code week is an initiative supported by the European Commission to encourage people to discover coding.

Read more at: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/celebrate-creating-code

The European Commission has launched its second Digital Skills Award. Companies and organisations are invited to submit projects they have implemented to improve digital skills in Europe. The best 4 projects designed at improving the digital skills of citizens, the labour force, ICT professional and in education will receive an award. A fifth award will go to the best project which also...

The European Commission has launched its second Digital Skills Award. Companies and organisations are invited to submit projects they have implemented to improve digital skills in Europe.The best 4 projects designed at improving the digital skills of citizens, the labour force, ICT professional and in education will receive an award. A fifth award will go to the best project which also address the needs of women and girls.

The awards will be presented by Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, at the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition conference in Brussels on 7th December. Both winners and runners up will also be invited to exhibit their projects at the conference. Additionally, they will be featured by the European Commission in newsletters, the media and on the web. The deadline for applications is 1st November 2017.

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The European Commission is planning to launch a pilot Digital Opportunity Scheme in the course of 2018. Running within the scope of the Erasmus + programme, the scheme promotes the development of digital skills through cross-border traineeships. Students taking part in the scheme will receive hands-on experience in such fields as cybersecurity, data analytics, artificial intelligence,...

The European Commission is planning to launch a pilot Digital Opportunity Scheme in the course of 2018. Running within the scope of the Erasmus + programme, the scheme promotes the development of digital skills through cross-border traineeships. Students taking part in the scheme will receive hands-on experience in such fields as cybersecurity, data analytics, artificial intelligence, programming and software development. The scheme will be endowed with a €10 million budget from Horizon 2020. 

The Commission has launched the first full version of the European classification of Skills, Competences, Occupations and Qualifications (ESCO). The classification is available in 26 languages (the 24 EU languages, Icelandic and Norwegian). ESCO  facilitates the dialogue  between labour market  and the  education/training sector  by providing a common language...

The Commission has launched the first full version of the European classification of Skills, Competences, Occupations and Qualifications (ESCO). The classification is available in 26 languages (the 24 EU languages, Icelandic and Norwegian).

ESCO facilitates the dialogue betweenlabour market and the education/training sector by providing a common language that could help overcome labour market imbalances and increase occupational and geographical mobility in the EU. You can read more about ESCO here.