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The Report is the result of a yearlong project aiming at promoting long-term growth and job creation in Europe by significantly improving the conditions for innovation-driven entrepreneurship as the remedy to the current European crisis.

The European e-Leadership Initiative (www.eskills-guide.eu) aims to support communication about e-leadership educational programmes, that is, programmes delivering learning outcomes contributing to e-leadership skills.

The European Commission has launched a series of practical initiatives to help fill the growing number of vacant ICT-related jobs across Europe, and to ensure that more people get the training needed to work in the digital economy.

Successful design and implementation requires developing and engaging highly qualified staff to realise the target value. Research has confirmed a significant shortage of e-leadership skills across Europe – a call for action.

The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of the need for citizens to improve their command of information and communication technology (ICT) skills for work.

It was developed and is offered by TIAS School for Business and Society, a Tilburg-based business school in the Netherlands and the Antwerp School of Management in Belgium.

CEU Business School: supported by the guidelines for curriculum development which have been developed as part of the European Commission e-leadership initiative – demonstrated how they are going to deliver these in the future to improve the quality of e-leadership

Business schools from these two countries (Antwerp School of Management and TIAS in Tilburg): supported by the guidelines for curriculum development which have been developed as part of the European Commission e-leadership initiative

Based on the great success of the first high level conference held on 6 May 2014 in Athens, the Rome event gathered over 400 policy makers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, ICT practitioners and young people to draw their attention to the increasing needs of e-skills

As one of the highlights, we had the chance to talk to Franz Josef Pschierer Secretary of State from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs: “With the programme ‘Digital Bavaria’ we pave the road towards the next era of economic success in Bavaria.