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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. 18 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. . Projects