TELECENTRE EUROPE | ANNUAL REPORT 2016
eSkills for
Jobs
eSkills for Jobs 2016, part of the EU eSkills strategy, is a major cross
sector, multi-stakeholder campaign from the European Commission,
involving more than 650 organisations across Europe including
companies, associations, education and training bodies and NGOs.
In Greece, more than 1,500 young people participated
in the workshops and webinard organized by
HePIS. During the workshops, HePIS presented the
Getcoding initiative which is part of the e-skills for
jobs campaign while informing the delegates about
the prospects of the ICT sector and the current gap
of almost 335.000 ICT vacant positions.
Telecentre Europe was one of the three pan-European
stakeholders that supported DIGITALEUROPE and
European Schoolnet to run the campaign in 2014,
2015 and 2016. Our contribution was formed of two
main sets of actions, as shown below.
1. Organizing the Get Online Week as part of eSkills
for Jobs, including:
• eSkills for employment training using a range of
technologies and devices
• Hunting for digital jobs events
• ICT certification – free vouchers from industry
2. Supporting the overall communications of the
campaign, as follows:
• Contribution to the overall communications
strategy and day-to-day tasks, especially on the
social media reach-out
• Contribution to the revision of the eSkills
Manifesto, on eInclusion section
• Contribution to the update of website content in
sections agreed with project partners
Telecentre Europe involved four members in the
eSkills for Jobs that have organized dedicated
activities for the young unemployed. Below are some
highlights of the work carried by our members in
2016.
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In Italy, Fondazione Mondo Digitale (FMD) involved
13,000 people in campaign related activities, from
which 5,000 were unemployed. RomeCup, one of the
campaign highlights, is an event dedicated to robotics
and education: it hosts robot competitions, seminars
and workshops connecting schools, research centres,
universities, enterprises and institutions.
•n Portugal, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
(FCT) reached over 5,000 young people mainly
through conferences, competitions and career fairs.
Hire me app was a successful competition that
provided a 4,000 Eur prize to the winner: Joan Beja
Silva, student at Universidade de Aveiro.
In Spain, the Association “Community of Telecentre
Networks” organised webinars for young unemployed
reaching almost 5,000 people, most of them being
unemployed. The webinars provided career guidance
and information sessions on ICT tools and resources
for job searching, digital CV, etc.
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