Level Up

Level Up aims to empower the labor force of European SMEs in digital competencies, through the development and provision of short-term and industry-oriented training courses targeting SMEs and job seekers, focusing on the following key capacity areas: Cybersecurity, Data Literacy, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, microelectronics / microcontrollers, Internet of Things, 3D printing and 3D modelling, cloud and programming.

Activities

The consortium will create and deliver a new pool of training courses on the basis of the expertise knowledge and experience of the consortium training providers and account on the actual needs of the labor workforce. It is expected that more than 100 training courses will be created and also listed on the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform from the Level Up consortium, reaching out to an estimated number of 15000 participants from 3000 SMEs during the lifespan of the project.

The training courses will be customised in order to be relevant to different industry sectors, including the healthcare sector, finance, insurance, but also, agriculture-food, agritech, energy, manufacturing and telecommunications sector.

In Level Up, seven renowned training providers from five EU countries have joined forces, in order to co-design and deliver current, high-quality industry-oriented training courses, targeting primarily SMEs and secondly job seekers, with the support of seven business associations, from five different EU countries, that will largely promote the project and its outcomes to thousands of people working in SMEs at EU level.

Target group

Primary target group

Business’ leaders or managers with a special focus on SMEs.
SME employees.
Job seekers from all labour market and industrial sectors, who are interested in upskilling and reskilling in key capacity areas in terms of digital skills, namely, Data, AI, Cybersecurity, IoT, Cloud and Software/ Programming and 3D printing.

Most of the training courses will be applicable to all sectors and professions, but certain courses will be dedicated to specific sectors, such as the healthcare, Agrotech, Finance and ICT.