E-Skills Week

European e-Skills Week highlights the growing demand for skilled ICT users and professionals to drive a competitive and innovative Europe. This campaign seeks to inform students, young professionals and SMEs AbOUT the vast range of opportunities that ICT-related jobs present.

Public authorities, ICT companies, education institutions and students will engage in hundreds of activities, training events, competitions and much more. The awareness campaign will culminate in a dedicated European e-Skills Week from 1 to 5 March 2010.

This ground initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry is coordinated by DIGITALEUROPE and European Schoolnet in conjunction with twenty national partners. The week is organised as part of the e-Skills strategy, which the European Commission adopted on 7 September 2007, via the Communication on "e-Skills for the 21st Century: Fostering Competitiveness, Growth and Jobs", presenting a long term e-skills agenda and including five major action lines at EU level (2008–2010). The Competitiveness Council of Ministers subsequently adopted Conclusions on a long term e-skills strategy on 22–23 November 2007.

More than 100 international and national organisations have already agreed to be stakeholders in the e-Skills Week 2010.

EU level / International stakeholders

National stakeholders

Austria

  • IBM
  • INTEL
  • MOTOROLA
  • CISCO
  • Oracle
  • HP
  • SAP
  • DATEV
  • MICROSOFT
  • Erste Bank
  • Digitales Österreich
  • WKO - Chamber of Commerce Austria
  • Education Highway

Belgium

  • Dogstudio

Bulgaria

  • BAIT
  • Workshop for Civic Initiatives Foundation

Cyprus

  • IN Business Magazine
  • Phileleptheros Newspaper
  • Radio Proto
  • CCS Magazine
  • Simerini Newspaper
  • ECDL Cyprus

Czech Republic

  • Online Safety

Denmark

  • Danish Ministry of Education
  • UNI-C
  • Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
  • The Alexandra Institute
  • Knowledge Lab

France

  • La Casemate – CCSTI Grenoble
  • Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale
  • Ministère de la Défense

Germany

  • IT Fitness (by Microsoft)
  • Cisco Germany
  • Deutsche Messe AG
  • Zentralverband des deutschen Handwerks (ZDH)
  • MINT Zukunft
  • Deutsche Telekom AG
  • Infineon Technologies Germany
  • IBM
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Accenture

Greece

  • Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs
  • Ministry of Economy and Finance
  • Ministry of Development
  • ADEDY
  • SEV (Hellenic Federation of Enterprises)
  • EETT
  • University of Athens
  • University of Peloponnese

Hungary

  • NJSZT
  • Inforum
  • NKTH
  • NFGM
  • MEH
  • MGYOSZ
  • MKIK
  • Hungarian Association for Innovation - MISZ
  • Hungarian Association of Content Industry - MATISZ

Ireland

  • ICT Ireland
  • Fastrack to IT Ltd (FIT)

Latvia

  • The Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association - Likta

Lithuania

  • Microsoft Lietuva
  • Association INFOBALT
  • LIKS

Netherlands

  • CA-ICT
  • ICT Regie
  • Platform Bèta/Techniek
  • Educational institutes: ECABO, HBO-I and Platform Informatiekunde
  • CIO Platform
  • VHTO

Norway

  • IKT-Norges Member companies
  • University of Oslo
  • The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
  • Norwegian Ministry of Education
  • Norwegian Media Authority, Safe use Project
  • National Council for Informatics in higher education
  • National Centre for Software
  • The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Oslo School District

Poland

  • Polish Processing Society

Portugal

  • Portuguese Ministry of Education, DGIDC
  • NPOC-Portugal

Romania

  • IBM Romania
  • HP Romania
  • Microsoft Romania
  • Intel Romania
  • Xerox Romania
  • Eco TIC Association
  • Romanian Ministry of Education, Research and Innovation
  • Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
  • Fundatia EOS

Spain

  • Red.es
  • IBM en España
  • GESFOR
  • APPLUS
  • INDRA
  • Microforum
  • EVERIS Spain
  • ALTRAN
  • ETSI
  • URJC
  • SERESCO
  • GARBEN

Sweden

  • Scorecard.se
  • Transfer
  • Computer Sweden
  • Kista Science City
  • Knowledge Foundation
  • The Swedish Computer Society

Turkey

  • MoNE General Directorate of Educational Technologies (EduTech)
  • Istanbul Bilgi University
  • Youth for e-Transformation

UK

  • NAACE