1. The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition: join us!
Alexander Riedl
European Commission DG CONNECT
20 June 2016

2. Digital skills at different life stages
ict specialist skills
ict advanced user
skills for work
ict basic user
skills for work
Digital skills for everyday life
Youth
Workforce
Senior citizens

3. The whole labour force needs digital skills

4. 37% of the EU workforce has insufficient digital skills,13% have no digital skills at all

5. Public and private companies Member States and Regions
Social
Partners
Digital Skills and
Jobs Coalition
European Commission
Education
& training providers
Employment services

6. Addressing the digital skills gap (1)
New Skills Agenda: digital skills in all actions, in particular:
Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition
Multi-stakeholder partnership (education, business, social partners, Member States) to tackle the digital skills challenge with concrete actions
Building on the achievements of the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs

7. The Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs
Launched in 2013
More than 2 million people trained
100 stakeholders, mostly from ICT industry and "digital constituency"
National and local coalitions in more than 13 countries

8. Addressing the digital skills gap (2)
Reaching out to all sectors as all sectors become digital
Involve Member States and stakeholders in designing and delivering solutions: national digital skills strategies and national partnerships for digital skills by 2017, joint targets by end of 2016
Best-practice exchange; pledges and joint training programmes; link to sectoral "blueprints"
Better use of European and national funds

9. What you can do: Join us ROUNDTABLE SEPTEMBER
What should be the main focus of the new Coalition?
What needs to be done to boost digital skills and what are your proposals for action?
What are the skills and job profiles in high demand?
What are the best practices from your sector/country?
LAUNCH CONFERENCE DECEMBER
Share your experience and projects
Join the Coalition!

10. Thank you!
Q & A
@digitalskillsEU