Digital Skills EU Days 2025

The Commission’s Advanced Digital Skills and Women in Digital flagships will join forces for a combined stakeholder event, providing a key moment to accelerate progress towards the Digital Decade target of 20 million ICT specialists and greater gender balance in tech.

This cooperation reflects the EU’s ambition set out in the Union of Skills and AI Continent Action Plan: to boost Europe’s global leadership and competitiveness through highly skilled talent and strengthen its capacity to lead in advanced digital technologies.

The Digital Skills EU Days 2025 will bring together relevant stakeholders and leaders from the education and training industries and policymakers to share the latest information, data and best practices, and to promote joint actions to boost talent and lay the foundations for future advanced digital skills academies.

The Summits, from 12 to 14 November 2025, will launch the annual Women in Digital Index and the Advanced Digital Skills State-of-Play report, providing a comprehensive analysis of the current landscape of advanced digital skills across the EU in the context of the Digital Decade. At the same event, the 2025 European Digital Skills Awards ceremony will recognise and reward exceptional projects and initiatives that help to bridge the digital skills gap in Europe. The ceremony will be chaired by European Commissioners and Executive Vice-Presidents Henna Virkkunen and Roxana Mînzatu.

European Digital Skills EU Days 2025 – Programme

• 12 November: European Digital Skills Awards 2025 

  • 14:00 Welcome Reception and Registration
  • 14:30 Welcome by the European Commission
  • 14:40 Panel on challenges and opportunities in Digital Skills
    • National Coalition Members
  • 15:10 Presentation of Jury Members
  • 15:30 Digital Skills EU Days - Opening Address
    • Henna Virkkunen | EVP Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
    • Roxana Mînzatu | EVP Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness
  • 15:40 Announcement of the European Digital Skills Awards 2025 Winners
    • Henna Virkkunen | EVP Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
    • Roxana Mînzatu | EVP Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness
  • 16:10 Testimonials from the previous editions (2023 & 2024 winners)
  • 16:40 European Digital Skills Awards 2025 Winners: Projects presentations
  • 17:10 Closing remarks
  • 17:15 Networking reception
  • 19:00 Close

• 13 November: Europe's Advanced Digital Skills Summit

  • 09:30 20x30 Advanced Digital Skills Summit Opening
  • 09:45 ADS State-of-Play – Key findings and results
  • 10:05 ADS State-of-Play – Panel Discussion
    • Panel of MS Representatives
  • 11:00 Scaling Skills: An Infineon Playbook for Advanced Digital Talent
  • 11:30 Coffee Break
  • 12:00 Delivering on the demand for digital talent
    • Parallel sessions for best practices and position papers from the Advanced Digital Skills Sub-Clusters
      • Data-driven talent pipelines in industry
      • Accreditation and the missing piece for skills recognition
      • Achieving scale and sustainability in advanced
  • 13:00 Networking Lunch & Exhibition
    • Exhibition area for DIGITAL funded Advanced Digital Skills programmes
  • 14:00 Parallel panels
    • AI Talent Development – stories from the front line.
    • Does the need for reskilling provide a window of opportunity for attracting new profiles into ICT?
  • 14:50 Navigating the challenges in advanced digital skills –
  • 15:20 A look towards 2026 – role of talent and digital for EU competitiveness
  • 15:30 Coffee Break & Registration
  • 16:00 Women in Digital Summit Opening
  • 16:30 Steps for change – plotting the pathway for Women in Digital
  • 17:00 Fireside Chat: Women in Leadership
  • 17:30 Networking reception

• 14 November: Women in Digital Summit

  • 09:30 Opening keynote – From activity to action
  • 10:00 The pipeline view – Women in Digital Index 2025
  • 10:30 The pipeline view – Reflections and discussion
  • 11:00 Initiatives for change – Key actions across Member States
  • 11:30 Coffee Break
  • 12:00 Women in Digital Forum – Expert Findings
    • Transforming ICT Education
    • Leadership Empowerment
  • 13:00 Formal closing – Building the pipeline from the bottom up
  • 13:30 Networking Lunch & Exhibition
  • 14:00 Women in Digital Forum Assembly
    • Closed session for WiD Forum Members
  • 15:30 Close