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Digital Skills and Jobs Platform

European Comission

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29 February 2024
29 May 2024
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For profit
Not for profit (incl. NGOs)
Public sector
R&D and Higher Education
Aruba
Austria
Belgium
Bonaire
Bulgaria
Croatia
Curaçao
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
French Polynesia
French Southern and Antarctic Territories
Germany
Greece
Greenland
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Netherlands
New Caledonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Saba
Saint Barthélemy
Serbia
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
St. Eustatius
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Sweden
Turkey
Ukraine
Wallis and Futuna
Research, Development and Innovation Engineering and Technology
Research, Development and Innovation Social Sciences
Transport, Infrastructure and ICT
Overview

ExpectedOutcome :

• Connected National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs to the Core Platform.

Objective :

The Commission has set ambitious targets in the Digital Decade Policy Programme of increasing to 80% the number of European adults possessing at least a basic level of digital skills and reaching 20 million ICT professionals in Europe, while promoting access to women in this field in order to bridge the gender gap in the technology sector, by 2030.

The Digital Skills and Jobs Platform contributes to the Digital Europe Policy Programme and aims to support the closing of the digital skills gap and the reaching of the Digital Decade targets. To achieve this, the Platform provides a single point of information related to digital skills in Europe. At EU level, the Platform gathers all relevant information and funding opportunities for stakeholders to benefit from. It also provides access to an EU-funded self-assessment test in which users can evaluate their digital skills and receive training/learning recommendations. The Platform also provisionally hosts the Cyber Security Skills Academy. At national level, as a result of Connecting European Facility (CEF) calls in 2019 and 2020, connections to 22 National Coalition websites are being established. These national websites are connected to the core Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, establishing a mutually enriching exchange with relevant content and data on digital skills and jobs at EU and national level.

The objective of this topic is to consolidate and uphold the operation of the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, including corrective and adaptive maintenance. This topic will also sustain and extend the activities related to the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition, notably by further supporting collaboration among National Coalitions and the digital skills community in Europe, as well as deepening the exchange between the National Coalition websites and the core Platform. This topic aims to further increase the number of National Coalitions, to get existing and new National Coalitions to be more active and engaged, and to increase the number of members of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. Events, communication campaigns and other activities should be foreseen to raise awareness of the need to close the digital skills gap in the EU and mobilise the community of relevant stakeholders. Synergies should be sought with the EIT Campus and the Deep Tech Talent Initiative (DTTI).

Scope :

The action under the second work-strand, the National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs, will be implemented through a coordination and support action and will aim to further extend the activities of National Coalitions’ websites established under CEF calls in 2019 and 2020 as well as support the creation of new websites in Member States who do not have any National Coalitions yet.

Activities under the second work strand will include:

• Develop and connect the infrastructures (websites) of National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs that are not yet connected to the Core Digital Skills and Jobs Platform through interoperable interconnections, integrating and enabling exchanges with the Core Platform components.

• Provide access to national/regional/local actors and practices, building interoperable links to provide services relevant to the local context.

• Expand and engage National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs that are already connected to the Core Digital Skills and Jobs Platform.

Eligibility

Conditions

  1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

  1. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document

  2. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document

  3. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document

  4. Evaluation and award:

  • Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document
  • Submission and evaluation processes : described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual
  • Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document

6 . Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document

Documents

CALL DOCUMENT

Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

Digital Europe General MGA v1.0

Digital Europe Programme Regulation 2021/964

Digital Europe Work Programme 2023-2024 EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046

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29 May 2024