Digital Opportunity Scheme The European Commission Pilot Project Boosting digital skills on the job ESF TWG Meeting – 5 October 2017 Lucilla Sioli Head of Unit, DG Connect European Commission Workshop - 22 September 2017 @DigitalSkillsEU #DigitalSkills #DSJCoalition

Digital skills in numbers 44% Europeans do not have basic digital skills Of these 80 million people have no digital skills at all Source: DESI 2017

Digital Skills of the Labour force do not have basic digital skills ICT jobs now 3.7% of total employment At least 300,000 vacancies for ICT specialists 40% of companies trying to recruit ICT specialists face difficulties in finding them

Digitisation is transforming the economy

Now what?

Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition 1 of 10 actions in New Skills Agenda for Europe Multi-stakeholder partnership Take action to tackle the lack of digital skills in Europe for four target areas. ICT professionals Citizens Education Labour force

Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition A multi-stakeholder partnership Public and private companies Member States and Regions Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Social Partners European Commission Training providers Education actors at all levels

Where are we? More than 240 Members More than 70 “pledges”, concrete commitments to do something 17 National Coalitions

But this is not enough

Role of the EU Federate the Coalition to encourage the workforce of all sectors to become digital Involve Member States in designing and delivering solutions Best-practice exchange Better use of European and national funds also through the support of pilot projects

Digital Opportunity scheme pilot project to provide cross-border traineeships for up to 6,000 students and recent graduates in 2018-2020 ICT specialist skills Digital skills for business

Cross-border traineeships Students and recent graduates from all faculties On-the-job training Implemented through Erasmus + Cross-border traineeships Online platforms to advertise offers Budget EUR 10M Horizon 2020

Extending the Digital Opportunity? Include also VET students, unemployed young people Target group Erasmus + carries a cross-border dimension, however companies expresses a big interest for the possibility of having a local traineeship scheme National/local dimension Actors can be mobilised at national/local level for the implementation of the project (e.g. national coalitions, chambers of commerce, employment services, local networks) Actors involved

Questions Are there specific interventions for digital skills development implemented in your country? What kind of interventions for digital skills development are most common? What is the estimated volume of resources in this field?

Digital Opportunity Scheme The European Commission Pilot Project Boosting digital skills on the job ESF TWG Meeting – 5 October 2017 Workshop - 22 September 2017 Lucilla Sioli Head of Unit, DG Connect European Commission @DigitalSkillsEU #DigitalSkills #DSJCoalition