The DIGITAL project Leading Europe’s Advanced Digital Skills (LEADS) is responsible for the identification of future demands in advanced digital skills and the actions required to support the Digital Decade targets of over 20 million ICT specialists.
LEADS has defined a framework for ADS that includes detailed skills within the following technology areas: Cloud, IoT, BI/Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Quantum. Thanks to a precise and extensive work on data collection and analysis, the project has produced a comprehensive view of the supply side (current offering of HE/VET courses in Europe) and a demand assessment that includes predictions on the demand for ADS in the next 5 years. Both of them have been considered for the analysis of the GAP that Europe will be facing in the upcoming years.
Why is this important? This GAP analysis will be the basis of the recommendations that LEADS will make to policy makers and other stakeholders. In more general terms, the result of this work may change the skills landscape as we know it today.
The goal of this session is to present the results of the GAP analysis undertaken by LEADS and validate its main results with a series of experts that will help us to go deeper into several aspects of the analysis. We promise participants interesting discussions structured around three roundtables. The event will be open to a wider audience so that all voices are heard. So, if you want to learn about the GAP on Advanced Digital Skills in Europe and help us in this validation process, you should not miss this session.
Time | Session |
9:30 | INTRODUCTION
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9:45 | ROUNDTABLE 1: SKILLS GAPS ACROSS TECHNOLOGY AREAS
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11:00 | ROUNDTABLE 2: HIGH-LEVEL EDUCATION OR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING?
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12:15 | ROUNDTABLE 3: CAN WE SCALE CURRENT ACTIVITIES TO THE NEEDS OF EUROPE?
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13:30 | What comes AFTER SUMMER? Closing of the session |
The LEADS project, a CSA funded by the DIGITAL Programme, is tasked with providing data, analysis, foresight and guidance on the demands for advanced digital skills across Europe by the end of the decade to support the definition of Advanced Digital Skills actions to be funded under the
It aims to reduce the cycle between tech development and skills development to accelerate adoption through providing tech adoption trends, mapping of existing offerings and exploration of leading methods and approaches for tackling the large challenge affecting all sectors and organisations within the EU.
The DIGITAL Programme is investing 580 million EUR to provide European industry and society with the talent required to support the successful adoption of advanced digital technologies. Actions funded include:
These actions contribute to reach the Digital decade target of 20 million ICT specialists employed in the economy in 2030, which include promoting the access of women to this field and seek to drive excellence, agility and industry engagement across the education and training fields to facilitate state-of-the-art upskilling, reskilling and talent generation.