The document summarizes the status and activities of Local Coalitions for Digital Jobs being coordinated by Telecentre Europe in 10 European countries. Each country has a coordinator and multi-stakeholder partnerships working towards goals related to improving digital skills and jobs. The coalitions have secured initial funding and are in various stages of establishing partnerships and concrete plans. Progress updates are provided for several of the coalitions, including training activities, certifications, and outreach to youth. Telecentre Europe invites other GC4DJ pledgers to partner with and support the local coalitions.

1. Local Coalition for Digital Jobs:
Pledge’s state-of-the-art as of 30 Sept 2013
Gabriel Rissola, Managing Director

2. Overview
Coordinator: Telecentre Europe | gabriel.rissola@telecentre-europe.org
Partnership: T-E members coordinating Local Coalitions in 10 countries
(Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Spain)
GC4DJ themes: all five, with emphasis on 1, 3, 4
Aim: pan-European strategy to activate Local Coalitions for Digital Jobs led by
T-E members (T-E answer to GC4DJ)
Status:
•Kick-off meeting with LC coordinators held at DAA in Dublin
•LC coordinators selected, LC profiles and action plans drafted
•Funds (MS grant) secured for coordination activities during 1st
year
•Ongoing harmonization of transversal activities and resources identification
•Starting to explore how to help other pledgers (MS, Oracle, etc) going local

3. GREECE – Local Coalition for Digital Jobs
Coordinator: Hellenic Professionals Informatics Society (HEPIS) |
manolis.labovas@hepis.gr
Partnership: Microsoft Hellas and PEOPLECERT PLUS the American College of
Greece, ALBA Graduate Business School and 13 more stakeholders.
GC4DJ themes: 1, 3, 4, 5
Aim: to build a LC4DJ around Microsoft Spark’s Getbusy.gr initiative
3-year objectives:
•Recruit more stakeholders, sponsors and initiating partnerships
•Capitalize European Commission funding programmes in order to trigger more actions
at national level for the benefit of youth

4. IRELAND – Local Coalition for Digital Jobs
Coordinator: Fast Track to IT (FIT) | manushanratty@fit.ie
Partnership: Local ICT employers (Microsoft etc..), Local government training
service FAS.
GC4DJ themes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Aim: to lead the establishment of a Local Coalition for Digital Jobs
3-year objectives:
•Establish members (~20) and strong recognition of LC4DJ
•Establish and secure EC/local government funding
•Build GC4DJ themes into all programmes
•Major focus on gender balance and job placement
•Research innovative ideas to create jobs e.g. SME support system

5. ITALY - Multisectoral Network on Educational Robotics
Coordinator: Fondazione Mondo Digitale | b.quarta@mondodigitale.org
Partnership: schools, universities, companies, foundations, associations and
regional and national authorities (MoU signed between 62 organisations)
GC4DJ themes: 1, 4, 5
Aim: long-term national strategy to promote Educational Robotics
3-year objectives:
•Upscale and enlarge the Italian LC4DJ
•Raise interest and facilitate learning of scientific subjects through ER school training
activities such as the annual “RomeCup” event
•Promote innovative learning and teaching, digital jobs and careers through the diffusion
of ER inside the National school systems; embed ER in school curriculum.
•Promote cross-cutting cooperation activities with other related networks for digital jobs
targeted to young people (such as the Makers Movement, Fairs).

6. LATVIA - National e-Skills Partnership
Coordinator: Latvian ICT Association (LIKTA) | mara.j@dtmedia.lv
Partnership: 4 Ministries, 220 ICT companies represented by LIKTA, Latvian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (over 1,000 members), Latvian Open Technology Association,
Latvian Internet Association (MoU signed)
GC4DJ themes: 1, 3, 4, 5
Aim: long-term national strategy and coalition to promote e-skills for digital
jobs
3-year objectives:
•Increase involvement of young people in ICT careers (e.g. “ICT for my Future”)
•Provide national schemes and support instruments for ICT training for the labor market
needs (e.g. ICT trainings for small and micro enterprises, implementation of nationwide
ICT related LLL programs and certifications)
•Modern and interactive learning process

7. LITHUANIA – Local Coalition for Digital Jobs
Coordinator: Association “Langas į ateitį” | loreta.krizinauskiene@atea.lt
Partnership: 3 Ministries, several associations (IT companies, IT teachers,
distance learning, public libraries, computer society and ECDL), Universities of
Vilnius and Kaunas (MoU to be signed on 7 Nov during ICT 2013)
GC4DJ themes: 1, 4, 5
Aim: long-term national strategy and coalition to promote e-skills for digital
jobs
3-year objectives:
•Increase involvement of young people in ICT labour market by developing their digital
skills (e.g. open online courses)
•General awareness raising about importance of digital literacy and ICT skills (e.g.
through ICT2013, IT for your tomorrow, Girls in ICT day, IT solutions contest BEBRAS,
First LEGO League on robotics, ICT Professionals ’Day)
•

8. POLAND - Broad Agreement for Digital Competencies
Liaison: Information Society Development Foundation (FRSI) |
rafal.kramza@frsi.org.pl - elzbieta.dydak@frsi.org.pl
Partnership: National multi-stakeholder coalition led by Polish Digital Champion
(MoU signed)
GC4DJ themes: 1, 4, 5
Aim: to promote universal digital education, efficient usage of ICT as well as
acceptance of changes caused by ICT development
7-year objectives: “To inspire, support, promote, initiate and undertake
activities aimed at a universal, lifelong digital education to become a national
development priority; building awareness and acceptance of changes caused by
ICT development; active participation in economic, social and cultural
development thanks to the use of ICT”.

9. PORTUGAL – National Coalition for Digital Jobs
Liaison: Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) |
margarida.ribeiro@fct.pt
Partnership: Government-led national multi-stakeholder coalition under
formation (MoU not signed)
GC4DJ themes: details not provided yet
Aim: to build a National Coalition aligned with Portugal Digital Agenda, and
taking into account the European GC4DL guidelines
3-year objectives: not defined yet

10. ROMANIA - Digital Alliance for Romania: National
Coalition for IT Employment
Coordinator: Fundația EOS Romania | Gabi.Barna@eos.ro
Partnership: 2 Ministries, 7 IT corporations, 10 civil society orgs. (MoU signed)
GC4DJ themes: 3, 4, 5
Aim: improvement of the employability of youth and adults in IT jobs until 2020
3-year objectives:
•Advocate and support the government, the industry sector and the civil society to
understand the skills gap and work together to make it visible to all parties, but also to
realize the huge potential of the IT sector for provision of job opportunities
•Improve the take-up of industry IT certification by the academic sector and preparing
youth with the right IT skills set as required by today’s employers
•Include industry developed training and teacher development programs along the
mainframe academic curriculum.

11. SLOVAKIA – Local Coalition for Digital Jobs
Coordinator: Aptech Europe | tomas.bozik@aptech-europe.com
Partnership: multi-stakeholder coalition under formation (MoU not signed)
GC4DJ themes: 1, 3, 4
Aim: improvement of the employability of youth and adults in digital jobs
3-year objectives:
•Recruit more stakeholders, sponsors and initiating partnerships
•To initiate and undertake activities aimed at a universal, lifelong digital
education to become a national development priority
•General awareness raising about importance of digital literacy and ICT skills
•Improve the take-up of industry IT certification by the academic sector and
preparing youth with the right IT skills set as required by todays employers

12. SPAIN – Local Coalition for Digital Jobs
Coordinator: Spanish Association of Telecentre Networks | rfaura@gencat.cat
Partnership: multi-stakeholder coalition under formation (MoU not signed)
GC4DJ themes: 1, 3, 4, 5
Aim: improvement of the employability of youth and adults in digital jobs
3-year objectives:
•Improvement of digital skills of citizens, professionals and companies (e.g. mTalent
initiative in partnership with the mobile industry)
•Scaling up of ACTIC (a Catalan certification on digital competences aligned with EC
framework) to the whole country
•Expansion of ICT Facilitator training scheme to business (notably SMEs)
•Close collaboration between public employment services, public libraries and
telecentres to improve the employability of unemployed people
•Attract young people to digital jobs through digital training combined with job
placement schemes (e.g. CoreTIC project)

13. Indicators (1st
Year)
Country MoU 1. Training 2. Mobility 3. Certific. 4. Youth AR 5. Innov. learn.
Greece No 15,000 students 350
certificates
60,000 Getbusy
users
60,000 Getbusy
users
Ireland No 3,000 job seekers;
6,000 offliners
300 people 3,000
certificates
50,000 youngsters,
2,500 teachers,
3,500 practitioners
10,450 students
Italy Yes 50 teachers; 250
students
3,000 youngsters 300 teachers;
2,000 students
Latvia Yes 5,000 SME
workers
1,000
certificates
15,000 youngsters TBD
Lithuania Plan-
ned
3,000 adults 20,000 youngsters 60 teachers; 400
students
Romania Yes 1,000
certificates
250,000 students
(500 schools/Univ.)
10,000
youngsters
Slovakia No 5,000 students;
250 adults
1,000
certificates
10,000 youngsters
Note: Poland, Portugal and Spain have not quantified their targets yet

14. Helping the other pledges going to go local
Telecentre-Europe’s Local Coalitions for Digital Jobs:
•Multistakeholder partnerships (MSP) that enable the goals of the GC4DJ to drill
down into countries, local communities and people
•Alignment to the overall goals of the GC4DJ ensure greater collective impact and
more consistent and measurable outcomes
Offer to GC4DJ pledgers:
•All pledgers are invited (e.g. from ICT industry) to join the LCs of their interest, as
a formal partner, a “content provider” or a sponsor
•Pledgers can embed their activities into LCs plans and/or join activities already
planned and/or propose new joint activities
•ICT industry pledgers (e.g. CSR depts.) can contribute to sustain LCs with
cash or in-kind donations

15. Contact us
gabriel.rissola@telecentre-europe.org
laurentiu.bunescu@telecentre-europe.org
www.telecentre-europe.org