About: digital jobs
Simplon – coding as a tool for social inclusion
The company Simplon trains free of charge long-term job seekers and employees in retraining to become web developers, a project currently supported by different categories of European funds. EURACTIV.fr reports.
Twenty-four EU countries sign artificial intelligence pact in bid to compete with US and China
Twenty-four EU countries pledged to band together to form a “European approach” to artificial intelligence in a bid to compete with American and Asian tech giants.
The Brief: Innovation fetish has created rubbish jobs
Few words have been so ruthlessly fetishised in Brussels as innovation, jobs and growth.
EU eSkills campaigns reduce gap in the labour market
The eSkills campaigns, launched in 2010, have contributed to reducing the gap in the EU between demand and supply of digital skills jobs, according to the European Commission.
Cities demand central role in digital skills revolution
A network of major European cities has called on the EU to place its members at the heart of efforts to boost digital skills, tackle unemployment and prepare citizens for the high value jobs of the future.
Two fifths of Europeans are digitally illiterate
The European Commission wants to sink the 40% average of people who have little or no ability to use technology.
New EU privacy rules will create 28,000 jobs, says industry group
Privacy experts are about to become very in demand. Europe will need an estimated 28,000 specialists under the newly minted EU data protection regulation, according to industry group IAPP.
EU countries issue mea culpas for poor marks on internet connectivity
The European Commission’s new EU internet scoreboard has sparked a wave of mea culpas among the member states that ranked lowest for connectivity and digital skills.
Computing and digital literacy education needs a unified approach
SPECIAL REPORT / As EU Code Week comes to a close this weekend, the ECDL Foundation writes that education programmes promoting coding need to be balanced with basic technology skills, which are too often lacking—even among so-called 'digital natives'.
Coding kids share their digital skills with MEPs
SPECIAL REPORT / Dozens of children from around the continent came to the European Parliament on 30 September to help MEPs brush up their digital skills. VideoPromoted content
Backstage with Europe’s creators
MEP Victor Negrescu and EU40 hosted an exhibition called "Backstage with Europe's Creators" in the European Parliament on September 22nd.
How Europe can win in the global app economy
As the European Union prepares its plan for a Digital Single Market, policy-makers must take full account of the fastest growing segment of that market – the app industry, writes Sophie Mestchersky. VideoPromoted content
Vince Cable on the Digital Single Market
“The European Union is part of the solution; not part of the problem” said Vince Cable, in a speech at the Lisbon Council in Brussels on January 20th. The speech, titled "The Europe I Want, the Europe We Need" called for a re-invigorated digital single market. Cable, the British business secretary – and Liberal Democrat MP added that, “digital is central to growth in the European Union” and “we need to be able to show that the internal market works.”![[Zukunft Industrie/Flickr]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/11/3742570252-e8c2e25b5c-b.jpeg)
Germany’s Industry 4.0 in full swing, despite dissent from unions
SPECIAL REPORT: Companies, trade unions and politicians are working together to turn Germany into an industrial centre for the digital future. But on the day of its founding, Industry 4.0’s initiators are divided over its opportunities and risks. EURACTIV Germany reports.
Commissioners urge coding classes at school
The two commissioners in charge of the digital agenda, and youth and education, have written to to the EU's 28 education ministers, urging them to give every child the opportunity to develop basic coding skills at school.
More than 50% of EU jobs at risk of computerisation
More than half of the jobs in the EU's 28 member states will be impacted significantly by advances in technology over the coming decades across sectors, according to calculations by the think tank Bruegel.
Commission to meet Microsoft over mass redundancies
The European Commission has asked to meet Microsoft to discuss the layoff of thousands of EU workers, as the tech giant trims its newly-acquired Nokia subsidiary
New Beginnings
With a new legislative cycle about to start, we need to lay down the foundations for an economy that grasps the future, beginning with the digital single market, writes Fausto Pinto de Matos. VideoPromoted content
Stimulating Digital Entrepreneurship in Europe
On 29 April, entrepreneurs and policy makers gathered in Brussels to discuss digital entrepreneurship in Europe and launch the Watify platform to help entrepreneurs get over the barriers which prevent them from starting their own business or digitizing it.
EU’s ‘digital champions’ make plea to next Commission
SPECIAL REPORT/ The European Union’s “digital champions”, an industry coalition, wrote an open letter Monday (5 May) to the lead candidates vying to become the next European Commission President.
Employers tackle ‘unpredictable’ skills mismatch in ICT sector
SPECIAL REPORT / Although ICT experts disagree on how big the future skills gap in the sector will be, they are convinced that employers need to tackle the issue today through better training programmes, better start-up environments, and recruiting more women.![Beñat Bilbao [World Economic Forum]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/benat-bilbao-wef_credit-world-economic-forum.jpeg)
How can Europe bridge its digital divide?
Europe is slowly emerging from one of the worst financial and economic crises in decades. A new report shows that digitisation efforts by the EU could not only revamp the economy, but could reunite Europe too, writes Beñat Bilbao.