Digital skills & the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs Heidi Cigan DG CONNECT F4 – October 2015

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Impact of digitisation on the labour force. 90% of jobs require some level of digital skills whatever the sector; all jobs will change and many will disappear. 40% of enterprises trying to recruit ICT professionals have difficulty doing so. Highly digitally equipped schools are on average a reality for only 37% of grade 4 students, 24% of grade 8 students, and 50% of grade 11 vocational students. ≈ 20-25% of students are taught by digitally confident and supportive teachers having access to ICT and facing low obstacles to their use at school. 8 Why digital skills must be high up the agenda

Yet, 40% of the EU population has insufficient digital skills, 22% has none at all… 9

and 32% of the EU workforce has insufficient digital skills,13% has no digital skills at all. 10

'Job potential’ for ICT jobs skills development does not come about as fast as technological development 2015:337,000 unfilled vacancies (for ICT professionals) 2020:825,000 unfilled vacancies AND: all jobs will require digital skills Source: Empirica, May

What has been done so far to address the gap? 12 Communications on Re-thinking Education and on Opening-up Education, eSkills for Jobs strategy and communication campaign, … Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs (March 2013) multi- stakeholder partnership (education, business and employment) to tackle the ICT professionals skills gap through: Concrete local actions on the ground Job placement programmes and ICT trainings Alignment of degrees and curricula with labour/job market needs Motivating young people to study ICT and pursue related carreers

Grand Coalition priority areas for action Innovative learning & education, including "coding" Awareness raising ICT training mobility Certification 13

Over ≈60 Grand Coalition pledges by ≈100 stakeholders 14 Pledges on Training and Matching for Digital Jobs AccentureCisco Smart GridLiberty Global AdobeCloud Credential CouncilMicrosoft Altran CampusDC Professional DevelopmentSAP Altran I-ProjectDidascaStichting Vrouwen Aan Het Werk Altran FoundationDigital Skills AcademyTelefonica BBCFast-track to IT (FIT)Telerik Cisco CertificationGEYC Resources CenterUbiqum Code Academy Hewlett-PackardIntel Didasca GoogleNational College for Digital Skills Pledges on Certification CertiadriaEuropean Computer Driving License Foundation (ECDL) Rete Competenze per l' Economia Digitale Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS)European eSkills AssociationWePROMIS® - ECWT, BCWT Pledges on Innovative Learning & Teaching AutodeskGoogleSAMSUNG BCS, The Chartered Institute for ITInformatics EuropeThe Corporate IT Forum BEBRASINLEAUniversity of Piraeus European SchoolnetORACLE Pledges on Mobility Make IT in Ireland Pledges on Awareness Raising BubbleEverisSheffield Community Network CIONETGirls in Tech LuxembourgUniversity of Sheffield CSR EuropeHellenic Professionals Informatics Society (HePIS)YouRock Digital Leadership InstituteInspiring Fifty Zen Digital DigitalJobs Pledges on National and Local Initiatives Digitally Skilled & Digitally SafeMunicipality of Halmstad, SwedenSpanish Grand Coalition for a Digital Economy Telecentre Europe

13 national coalitions: BE, BG, CY, EL, IT, LV, LT, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, UK To follow: HU, ES, AT, DE, … Local coalitions are often stepping stones for national coalitions Toolkit to guide stakeholders in set-up National/Local Coalitions for Digital Jobs 15

Next steps to address the gap (1) Digital Single Market Communication "address digital skills and expertise as a key component of future initiatives on skills and trainings", e.g. Draft Commission and Member States Joint Report on Education &Training 2020 (published on 1/09/2015); Forthcoming EU skills strategy (early 2016) Adress digital skills at the highest political level; Involve social partners in the debate; 16

Next steps to address the gap (2) Use funding better at national and European level Anticipate and analyse skills needs better Studies on ICT in the workplace, more knowledge about vacancies Scale multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Grand Coalition and the Alliance for Apprenticeships more ICT-using companies, social partners, VET providers, business associations, national coalitions Support Member States to modernise education 17

Discussion with you What do we have to do to make better use of ESF for digital skills training? How to link up national actors and funds available? Which target groups could be funded (unemployed, employed, SMEs, teachers, learners, …) and how can we make it happen? What about more innovative ideas such as skills vouchers? 18