 Update on Board meeting yesterday  Status Grand Coalition: European Commission project for ICT jobs & innovation  Update on Annual Conference November  Update on Workgroups & Education Program Update EuroCIO

 Status members: 7 NBs and 5 DMs  Joanna Poplawska will withdraw as WG manager; seen more/extra duties in CITF-UK  CEN plenary: eCF-users issued (draft): skills.aspx. eCF “users” is made for ALL users of IT in every organisation (thus also our members) skills.aspx  27 June: Brussels meeting with standardisation organisations all EU member countries about: eCF as European standard.  eCF Governance Taskforce (under EeSA) launched “platform” (> 20 stakeholders today of which 16 signed the “pledge” for the Grand Coalition) to promote eCF in EU countries and in companies (both supply & demand).  Workshop HR & Education with partner Universities on 23 May was cancelled due to too few EuroCIO members interest. Reasons given (doodle inquiry): no time, no travel permission, etc.  Succesful participation in QUALITY (quality labels; eCF assesment tool) and VISION (e-leadership) projects. Brochures distributed to members. Status WG HR & Education

 Status members: 6 NBs and 6 DMs  European Cloud Partnership 4 th July / Talinn  Initiated interaction with DG Justice (V.Redding)  Eye-watching activity on the myriad of groups launched by DG CONNECT Status Cloud Workgroup

 Status members: 5 NBs and 5 DMs  Microsoft: bau  SAP: relaunched talks  SAS: some appetite Status SRW