Resource Keyword: EU

European Skills Panorama. Building an Ecosystem for the 21st Century Skills Education in STEM​

The 21st century skills are extremely important in the labour market and STEM graduates’ skills are highly valued. Employers from 29 countries participated in assessing the key employability skills of STEM graduates as needed in the 21st-century labour market. It is essential to identify the skills demanded in the labour market and consider them in the higher education development strategies to ensure the highest possible labour market outcomes for higher education graduates.​

Skills Match: How Open Data Enables Analysis of Demand for Non-Cognitive Skills in the Labour Market

Human resources are one of the key elements for the success of an IT project since their qualification and knowledge of hard skills and soft skills and an effective identification of these in the demands of each role or position are essential for the success of the project. This work presents a new approach that exploits existing reference models such as ESCO, eCF and NCSF (NCS Framework) as a basis for analyzing large datasets offered by existing labour analysis tools, such as the ESCO database with thousands of relationships between occupations and soft skills and the Ovate tool with millions of online job ads.

Skills for IT Project Management: The View From EU Frameworks​

A key factor for managing the human side of IT is understanding the essential feature of people's performance: skills. This chapter shows how the recent development of frameworks and standards in the European Union (e.g. EN16234 or ESCO classification) is enabling the powerful exploitation of open big data from existing skills analysis systems for a more precise and solid determination of recommended skills for IT project management. The analysis will especially focus on behavioral skills.​