The DIGITAL4Business European Master's Programme aims to design and implement a highly innovative, effective, and sustainable European Master's Programme in Advanced Digital Skills.
This contributes to the overall objectives of the DIGITAL Europe Programme by fast-tracking a high number of graduates through a dynamic pan-European stakeholder ecosystem. In the latter, HEIs, Research Centres, Employment Services, and Industry work together to design, promote, deliver and improve an innovative Master's Programme. It will focus on the practical application of Advanced Digital Skills within European Business, an entirely market-led academic programme driven and designed to meet the current and future (up)-skill needs of SMEs and Companies.
The Master's Course(s) will focus on the practical application of advanced Digital Skills within Business, including topics such as AI, cybersecurity, and the cloud. The latter skills are pivotal to European businesses' ongoing competitiveness and growth. Courses will blend academic and industry content to ensure that graduates are equipped with theoretical and employment-ready digital skills that will undoubtedly ensure career success for the candidates. Their degrees will be academically accredited by the hosting institutions and comprise industry certification through the key IT leading sector partners.
DIGITAL4Business fosters the industry-recognized certifications as a critical element of the learning pathway. Online teaching and learning environments will be used, combining in-house tools of the participating universities and a new 'Master's as a Service' central online platform to enhance learning opportunities for part time students and professionals already in employment. In addition, mentoring programmes with industry partners, hackathons, industry-focused project-based learning, and coaching on soft skills and job profiles will be offered during the programme.
The programme DIGITAL4Business will deliver a higher education Master’s programme at ISCED Level 7 with 60, 90, or 120 ECTS credits in two different formats, Part-Time and Full-Time, to appeal to different groups of learners. We aim to launch multiple part- and full-time cohorts within the 4-year project duration, with at least 1 part- and 2 full-time cohorts completed within the 4-year duration of the project. The initial part- and full-time cohorts will be deployed as pilots, with cyclical review and improvement after each year.
DIGITAL4Security is an innovative and market-led European Masters Programme in Cybersecurity Management & Data Sovereignty that will equip European SMEs and Companies across multiple sectors with the cybersecurity management, regulatory and technical skills they need to prevent and respond to existing and emerging cybersecurity threats, helping to safeguard European industries from cyber-attack.
Our Digital4Security Programme will be market and industry demand-led at its core, continuously adapting and evolving to address current and future cybersecurity risks and supporting European companies, and in particular SMEs, to minimise security risks, build robust defences, and effectively manage any cyber incident. DIGITAL4Security will contribute to the overall objectives of the DIGITAL Europe Programme by fast-tracking high numbers of graduates into high demand roles from the European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF), filling crucial occupational profiles that are critical to the ongoing security and success of European businesses.
Our objective is to reskill and upskill graduates, professionals, managers, and business leaders to become ‘Cyber Confident’ and empowered with the cybersecurity management expertise they need to strengthen their cybersecurity infrastructure and implement robust incident prevention and management procedures.
The global objective of this project is to design and implement a highly innovative, effective and sustainable European Cyber-security Masters Programme that will provide a continuous supply of qualified cybersecurity management experts, helping to address the growing cybersecurity skills gap that is endangering the stability of many European industries and public sector institutions.
The programme will be designed to appeal to the broadest possible catchment of potential students and companies from many different sectors, demographics, and cultural backgrounds; ensuring gender equality and including students from diversity groups.
With 2030 rapidly approaching and the digital decade target of 20 million ICT professionals in Europe still far out of reach, now is the time to bring together all of Europe’s digital skills stakeholders from Youth Education, Civil Society, Digital Industry and Government to implement innovative new approaches to the digital upskilling of young people.
Our Vision - To create a hugely successful, sustainable, and scalable digital education and upskilling initiative that will empower all young Europeans to embrace digital technologies and pursue a highly rewarding career in Digital.
Our Mission – To reimagine, revamp and relaunch EU Code Week, giving it a mandate to drive real change in digital education throughout Europe, a focus on vastly increasing the number of young people who choose digital careers, and an emphasis on engaging the entire digital skills ecosystem in a common mission to close the digital skills gap in Europe by tackling the problem at its source.
Objectives- Code4Europe will massively scale EU Code Week aiming to impact 25 million young people over the next 2 years. We have co-created a radically different approach to EU Code Week that we believe will deliver real results, while still maintaining and building on the grass roots nature of the initiative, embrace and empower the existing Code Week community, and staying fully aligned with its core values.
Team - In order to make this dream a reality, we have created a very large Consortium of 45 committed and passionate organisations representing all the Digital Education & Skills Stakeholder groups needed to grow EU Code Week to unprecedented levels. Led by Junior Achievement Europe, Code4Europe will unite the Education and Digital Skills communities within one integrated EU Code Week programme. We have joined together to make a real difference in our children’s lives, and together we will empower the new generation of Young Digital Europeans.
To learn more, please visit Code4Europe.
Digital4Sustainability will focus on fast-tracking the Digital & Green Transition within the ICT sector and throughout European Industry, helping companies to adopt advanced digital technologies to achieve their sustainability goals.
The project's goal is to design a new Digital Sustainability Skills Strategy and an innovative Training Programme that will provide companies with the advanced digital and green skills they need to build concrete ESG initiatives that deliver real results.
The project's goal is to design a new Skills Strategy and VET / HE Learning Programmes that will address the urgent and emerging skills needs of Industry in the key areas of Digital & Green. It will focus on training a new breed of Digital Sustainability Professionals through VET providers and Higher Education Institutions, and the re/upskilling of the existing ICT and Industry workforce via structured work based learning and short-term modular courses.
Digital4Sustainability will help non-tech industries to adopt these new technologies, while providing the ICT sector with training and support to create effective digital solutions that reduce energy, carbon and waste within industry. Finally, the project will provide digital sustainability skills intelligence and long-term Skills Strategy to foster sustainable digital upskilling after the project lifetime and support the overall implementation of the Digital Ecosystem large-scale skills partnership under the Pact for Skills.
The training programme will focus on upskilling & reskilling existing ICT & Sustainability professionals through higher education and work based learning, educating and empowering Business Leaders through short courses and training modules, and creating fresh new talent for the digital sustainability sector through HE and VET programmes targeted toward career changers, third level students, and adults.
SMARCO proposal addresses two key issues identified in digital ecosystem: 1) lack of focus on the development of resilient solutions for smart communities by ICT professionals (such as Smart Cities Engineers) and 2) on the other side of the scale, lack of green, digital, cybersecurity skills among public administrations’ staff (smart city planners, procurers) working on smart communities.
These two problems hinder the development of resilient smart communities, and hence decreases economic competitiveness, employability, potential to deliver on green targets, etc. Therefore, SMARCO project aims to address these issues serving as an all-encompassing umbrella for smart communities skills on both sides – industry and public administrations – offering evidence-based research, trends analysis, training programmes, certification, ant other resources for its stakeholder community. SMARCO community will evolve around its Smart Communities Skills Partnership which will be established under Digital Ecosystem Large-scale Partnership within the Pact for Skills.
Throughout the project lifetime, it will become a become a unique one-stop-shop for smart community skills focusing on the three main aims: - to ensure the development of resilient and sustainable smart communities by addressing the skills gaps of smart city engineers and planners/procurers through the development of urgent upskilling courses and forward-looking training programmes; -to grant flexible and user-centric learning, trans-national dimension and learning mobility, as well as a wide recognition of trainings through the development of micro-credentials, training certificates and wider certification scheme; - to create a sustainable community of stakeholders to discuss, share and scale training, upskilling and reskilling linked to smart communities’ skills and relevant best practices via participation in the Pact for Skills (and its Digital Large-scale ecosystem).
The Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is an established national initiative funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and managed by the Irish Research Council.
The programme aims to support suitably qualified applicants to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship. Previous submissions from the Cloud competency Centre to the GoI Fellowship include the parallel processing of secure machine learning models based on the residue number systems in cloud environments. Titled ParaPhrase, this project is built on a (multi-level) model of parallelism, where implementations of parallel programs are expressed in terms of interacting components.
By expressing parallelism in terms of high-level parallel patterns that have alternative parallel implementations, we will be able to redeploy/refactor parallel components to dynamically match the available hardware resources.
This project was undertaken by our Post Doctoral Researcher Jorge Mario Cortes Mendoza, with the Academic Mentor Horacio González-Vélez, in National College of Ireland. Current work from the Cloud Competency Centre under the GoI Fellowship, includes Jorge Mario Cortés-Mendoza leading a collaboration with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Cracow University of Technology to produce a paper to be submitted to the " International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology".
Parallel computing platforms have revolutionised the hardware landscape by providing high-performance, low-energy, and specialized (viz. heterogeneous) processing capabilities to a variety of application domains, including mobile, embedded, data-centre and high-performance computing. However, to leverage their potential, system designers must strike a difficult balance in the apportionment of resources to the application components, striving to avoid under- or over-provisions against worst-case utilisation profiles.
The entanglement of hardware components in the emerging platforms and the complex behaviour of parallel applications raise conflicting resource requirements, more so in smart, (self-)adaptive and autonomous systems. This scenario presents the hard challenge of understanding and controlling, statically and dynamically, the trade-offs in the usage of system resources, (time, space, energy, and data), also from the perspective of the development and maintenance efforts.
Making resource-usage trade-offs at specification, design, implementation, and run time requires profound awareness of the local and global impact caused by parallel threads of applications on individual resources. Such awareness is crucial for academic researchers and industrial practitioners across all European and COST member countries, and, therefore, a strategic priority.
Reaching this goal requires acting at two levels: (1) networking otherwise fragmented research efforts towards more holistic views of the problem and the solution; (2) leveraging appropriate educational and technology assets to improve the understanding and management of resources by the academia and industry of underperforming economies, in order to promote cooperation inside Europe and achieve economical and societal benefits.