In the 2021 State of the European Union speech, the President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen underlined that equipping Europeans with digital skills is a top priority.
See the main reforms and investments supported by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility and track how much of each country's budget goes towards advanced digital skills.
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RFF) as a unique opportunity for EU countries to boost digital skills and collectively meet digital decade targets for 2030.
The EC proposed the European Chips Act, which aims to develop a thriving semiconductor ecosystem and support skilling and reskilling initiatives in microelectronics.
EIT Digital are looking for fast-growing European ‘deep tech’ companies who have a differentiating product which utilises sophisticated and hard-to-reproduce digital technologies.
On 27 September 2023, the European Commission published the first report on the State of the Digital Decade. The new report is a call to Member States for collective actions to advance digital transformation in Europe.
The Digital Decade policy programme 2030 entered in force: the European Parliament, Member States and the Commission have jointly set for the first time concrete objectives and targets in four key areas of digital skills.
The metaverse is getting bigger and bigger. In July 2023, the Commission put forward an EU strategy for virtual worlds and Web 4.0. Take a look at what this looks like, and what it means.
On 7 July 2022, representatives from National Coalitions for Digital Skills & Jobs met in Brussels for a workshop to celebrate 1 year of collaboration and talk about the way forward.