The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition –for which the eSkills Foundation is the Maltese national contact point – is one of the 10 key initiatives proposed by the Commission under the New Skills Agenda for Europe, presented in June 2016.

Dozens of partners, including over 30 organisations and groups such as European Digital SME Alliance, ESRI, SAP, ECDL and Google are pledging to further reduce the digital skills gap as part of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition.

Establishing national digital skills coalitions connecting public authorities, business, education, training and labour market stakeholders.

Europe lacks digitally skilled persons to fill job vacancies in all sectors

Developing concrete measures to bring digital skills and competences to all levels of education and training, supporting teachers and educators and promoting active involvement of business and other organisations.

Members of the Coalition commit to tackling the skills gaps at all levels, from high-level ICT specialist skills to the skills needed by all European citizens to live, work and participate in a digital economy and society.

Digital skills range from finding information online and sharing online messages to creating digital content such as coding applications.

Europe lacks digitally skilled persons to fill job vacancies in all sectors, missing out on up to 750,000 Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) professional jobs by 2020. More than a third of the labour force and, more broadly, around 45 per cent of European citizens have no more than basic digital skills.

The new Coalition builds on the work of the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs, the eSkills for Jobs campaign and Education and Training 2020. Since 2013, the Grand Coalition led to the training of more than two million people in digital skills through over 80 supporting organisations and led to the setting up of 13 national digital skills coalitions in the member states.

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