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The event will bring together leading experts in the field of e-skills, e-leadership and ICT professionalism from industry, business schools, universities, ICT and CIOs associations, trade unions, standardisation bodies, examination, certification and accreditation institutions

iEXA covers three basic exams (Business Processes, Information Systems and Infrastructure) and nine specialization exams, which the participating universities have integrated in several of their ICT related curricula.

Last year, the European e-Skills 2013 Conference brought together over 300 leading experts from all over Europe It will address two key topics of e-skills: e-leadership and ICT professionalism in Europe.

The Greek Government and ICT industry announced the establishment of a Greek National Coalition for the Digital Economy. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed at the e-Skills for Jobs 2014 Grand Event.

Together with top-level universities and business schools from all over Europe empirica develops, demonstrates and disseminates European guidelines and quality labels for new curricula fostering e-leadership skills.

This empirica Working Paper has been released in time for the European Commission Digital Single Market Strategy calling for action also for boosting digital and e-leadership skills acquisition and learning to foster the digital transformation of Europe.

The LWK NRW is in the process of closing down one of their two branch offices in Northrhine Westphalia. Those employees affected by this decision are to be given a work place at the remaining location in Münster or alternatively an option for teleworking.

Following previous consulting projects including the systematic exploration of work-from-home in the Arab world and the development of a blueprint for Qatari companies that can be used as a ‘how to guide’ for implementing this new form of work organisation.

An independent evaluation of the implementation and operation of the telework pilot project at Frankfurter Sparkasse which was carried out by empirica revealed a huge success. This was confirmed by both, teleworkers and employees as well as their superiors and managers.

The initiative, called the “e-Leadership Vision Project”, was launched by the Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission in January 2012.

The main objective was to benchmark existing policies and initiatives in Europe on multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSP) in the field of e-skills. The results include a stock-taking of MSP for e-skills development and related policies.

In Europe the demand for ICT practitioners, with growth of around 4% a year is outstripping supply resulting in a shortage of 509,000 jobs in 2015 compared to 274,000 today. This figure could even increase to almost one million by 2020.