Towards a Long Term e-Skills Strategy in EuropeInnovation ForumBerlin, 20 June 2007Tapani MikkeliEuropean CommissionDG Enterprise and Industry

1. Towards a Long Term e-Skills Strategy in Europe Innovation Forum Berlin, 20 June 2007 Tapani Mikkeli European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry

3. Analysis of the Supply and Demand RAND Europe (1998-2005) See: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/eskills-2005-10-11.rand.pdf

4. Forecasting the Demand and the Supply Networking Skills – IDC / Cisco Systems (2005-2008) See: http://www.cisco.com/edu/emea/general/pdf/IDC_Networking_Skills_Shortage_EW_Europe_FINAL_5_Oct.pdf

6. e-Skills: The Key to Employment and Inclusion ICT User Skills – IDC / Microsoft (2007) See: http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/glf2007/relatedmaterials.mspx

7. e-Skills Foresight Scenarios (ICT Practitioners) CEPIS, PREST & Eurochambres (2007-2015)

8. Benchmarking e-Learning in Europe Menon Network EEIG (2006-2007) See: http://www.menon.org/Benchmarking/

9. CEN/ISSS: Towards a comprehensive European e-Competence Framework (2007-2008) Methodological study European e-Competence Framework an EU-wide tool for planning and developing ICT practitioner competences across Europe in line with the EQF (providing ICT competence definitions needed and applied by industry) ICT Qualifications Framework ICT Lane project: a shared European model for reading ICT qualifications across Europe (providing a common language for understanding ICT qualifications) Aim: Ability to create, manage, plan and develop e-competences that will be needed in a long term perspective across Europe EU-wide e- Competence and Career Tools and Services European e-Skills Portal Feasibility Study (2007) followed (if positive) by future platform operated by stakeholders EU-wide e-skills certifications quality criteria and map EU-wide ICT User Competence Framework European Commission: Policy making (European Qualification Framework (EQF) and e-Skills Policy Communication) and Funding Programmes CEN/ISSS: EU-wide Standardisation Body Stakeholders (Industry, Social partners, Universities, Training Institutions etc.): multi-stakeholder partnerships for actions See: http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/businessdomains/businessdomains/isss/activity/wsict-skills.asp

12. See: www.e-skills-conference.org

16. e-Skills Industry Leadership Board Launch Event, 7 June 2007, Brussels