Event: European e-Skills Week 2012

The European e-Skills Week 2012 campaign highlights this growing need for skilled ICT users and professionals, and seeks to inform students, young professionals and SMEs about the range of opportunities that ICT-related jobs present. This campaign is led by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry, in coordination with DIGITAL EUROPE and the European Schoolnet.

Microsoft is delighted to be a partner for e-Skills Week 2012, and we strongly support this call for greater collaboration between industry, government & academia to prepare the next generation with skills for the jobs of the future. Among our other initiatives, Microsoft supports Project Passion, a fun initiative designed to inspire young people to create exciting  communications on a theme that is at the top of all young graduates’ minds in Europe – how to win a job. Sylvie Laffarge, Director Citizenship, will represent Microsoft in the industry judging panel of the competition.

We invite you to discover or re-discover on this site, the key programmes and initiatives we are running that contribute towards this ambitious goal, and follow the conversation on Facebook and Twitter using #eskills2012.

When: 26-30 March 2012
Location: Brussels, Belgium

The European e-Skills Week stakeholders opening conference took place on 19 March 2012 at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels. John Vassalo, Vice President - EU Affairs, Microsoft Europe, was part of the "Increasing e-Skills among the younger generation" panel discussion together with Carlos Brazao, Managing Director Public Sector, Cisco EMEA, Caroline Jenner, CEO, Junior Young Achievement Enterprise Europe and Gitte Møldrup Nielsen, Director, it-vest, Denmark. You can read his full speech here.


Related content:

• e-Skills and Jobs: The Copenhagen Declaration
• eSkills: The Real Stakes in the 2020 Economy (blog)
• eSkills: The Real Stakes in the 2020 Economy (advertorial)

Discover here a wide range of Microsoft Programmes & initiatives enabling the development of eSkills in Europe:

• Skillage - A new ICT employability learning and assessment product for young people 
• Video interview: Jobs of the future, your access pass? Training and certifying for the cloud
• Migration towards high-level skills
• ATC21S: Defining 21st Century Skills…
• Finland moving towards online education and collaboration with cloud computing
• Youth putting the ‘spark’ into the Digital agenda
• Gen Y leading the way out of the financial crisis
• Time to take action on getting disabled people into work
• What’s up with the Digital Agenda? Momentum!
• The new wave of job-readiness for the cloud!
• Survival skills for the digital age
• Celebrating innovative education with Microsoft Partners in Learning
• Cloud curriculum prepares future engineers for the reality of the job market
• Should we protect jobs or the people?
• Cloud technology: the logical choice to minimize the costs of 21st century skills
• Microsoft Career Portal carves education tracks for a career in the IT industry
• Marking a sustained commitment to skills for an inclusive labour market at the EU Employment Week 2011
• The integrity of the certification program matters
• More than one No. 1 – ranking universities discipline by discipline
• Education report card
• Finding ways to assess 21st-century skills. A powerful foundation to change learning, curricula & the classroom itself.
• Are you safe online? Microsoft observes Safer Internet Day
• World top universities share innovation curricula for free
• Grow your career: 7 million people certified in twenty years
• Apprentice Dragons take the lead during e-Skills Week 2012

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