The EU project ESSA proposes a market-driven approach to software skills development
In recent years, digital skills have become increasingly relevant to big companies and SMEs, ICT professionals, and the EU’s future workforce. But, currently, we see a big gap between what skills the market needs and what the EU’s workforce has to offer — and it is nowhere more apparent than in software development.
The European Software Skills Alliance (ESSA), kicked off last December, has been created to support the EU’s Software Sector with a solid framework for educating and training individuals into high demand software roles, with major benefits to the digital ecosystem and society as a whole.
The EU project ESSA proposes a market-driven approach to software skills development.
What are the roles, competences, and skills we need?
Europe and all actors from the software sector need an effective strategy to cope with the ever-growing demand for software professionals — the European Software Skills Alliance delivers a solution.
ESSA aims to bridge the software skills gaps in Europe and accelerate the professional skilling, upskilling and reskilling of the EU’s software workforce to ensure the current and future software skill and professional needs of the sector can be met. How? By delivering practical tools to meet the demand for software skills in Europe:
- A European Software Skills Strategy building on a market-oriented needs analysis. As a result, it will define a novel approach to close together the European software skills and roles gaps, with concrete and implementable actions.
- Vocational Education and Training (VET) curricula, training programmes and course materials.Practice-proofed, these learning opportunities will specifically address the identified software skills and roles gaps for Developer, DevOps expert, Solution designer, Technical (software) specialist and Test specialist.
- A Software Skills Community spacethat allows you and all people believing we can be the actors of change to share knowledge and insights, and advocate all together for software skills and professional quality.
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Skilling, upskilling, and reskilling the EU’s software workforce is key to tackling the current — and future — challenges of the digital era. If you want to learn more about ESSA, check the website www.softwareskills.eu and help us spread the news.
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Project Consortium
The European Software Skills Alliance (2020-2024) is a Sector Skills Alliance project, funded under the EU’s Erasmus+ programme.
Full partners
Adecco Formazione, AICA, AKMI, AMETIC, ASIIN Consult GmbH, BCS Koolitus, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Codecool, DIGITALEUROPE, Digital Technology Skills Limited, Global Knowledge, Global Knowledge, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Hellenic Open University, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Irish Computer Society, IVSZ, Modis Consulting, UNINFO, University of Ljubljana, and Warsaw School of Computer Science.
Associated partners
Amazon Web Services, European Schoolnet, General Assembly, IT Professionalism Europe, and NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute.