Digital Skills & Jobs Platform
From 12 to 14 November, the Digital Skills EU Days will take place in Brussels (registrations are still open). The event will promote a discussion on the challenges and opportunities related to digital skills, with the launch of the Advanced Digital Skills State-of-Play report, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the current landscape across the EU in the context of the Digital Decade.
During the event, participants will also have the opportunity to learn more about best practices in the field, such as data-driven talent pipelines in industry, accreditation and skills recognition, and scaling and sustainability in advanced programmes. Another panel will focus on AI talent development and reskilling as an opportunity to attract new ICT profiles.
The event will also feature the first Women in Digital Summit. It will include the publication of the Women in Digital Index 2025 and offer space to reflect on steps for change, define action points, and share insights from data on the women-in-digital pipeline. The programme includes workshops on transforming ICT education and fostering leadership empowerment.
Organised by the EU-funded projects Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, LEADSx2030 and WIDCON, this three-day event is coordinated by DG CONNECT Units G.2 (Interactive Technologies, Digital for Culture and Education) and G.3 (Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet). Anchored in the Union of Skills and the AI Continent Action Plan, this cooperation between projects and the European Commission aims to boost Europe’s global leadership and competitiveness through a highly skilled workforce and strengthen its capacity to lead in advanced digital technologies.
The highlight: European Digital Skills Awards
As part of the Digital Skills EU Days, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen and Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness Roxana Mînzatu will participate in the European Digital Skills Awards.
The 2025 edition of the European Digital Skills Awards received a total of 195 applications across five categories, highlighting the impressive efforts of organisations across Europe to strengthen digital skills for every citizen.
The European Commission and the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform team selected 25 finalists for this edition:
Cybersecurity Skills
- ICT ACADEMY of the Office of the Commissioner of Communications (Cyprus)
- Law Enforcement Assistance for Disaster Prediction and Recovery Optimisation (LEAD-PRO) (Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Ireland)
- Digital Angel (Germany)
- ENIGMA Programme (Spain)
- Acronis Cyber Safety Education for Children (Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Switzerland)
Women in ICT Careers
- Women Engineers For A Day (Portugal)
- Digital Girls (Italy)
- Wikiesfera (Spain)
- The SHE@CYBER project (Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland)
- Girls in STEAM Academy (Cyprus)
Digital Upskilling
- eFundae (Spain)
- Level Up (Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Poland)
- Digital Highfive (Denmark)
- Digital Academy of Public Administration (Latvia)
- EBU Academy School of AI (All EU and EU candidacy countries)
Inclusion in the Digital World
- Cyber Safety (Ireland)
- Digital Überall (Digital Everywhere) (Austria)
- PREPARADAS (Spain)
- Digital Compass (Germany)
- No One Left Behind (Lithuania)
Digital Skills for Education
- Escape Fake (Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Hungary, Italy)
- Girls Go Circular (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, Moldova, Georgia)
- European School Radio (Greece, Cyprus, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Poland)
- Skills Upload Jr (Albania, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey)
- Unbeelievable – Protecting Bees through Coding and Robotics (Romania, Spain, Turkey, France, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Netherlands)
A jury, consisting of Kamakshi Rajagopal, Erlend Andreas Gjære, Demetrios Sampson, Riina Vuorikari, and Jonatan Castaño Muñoz, have selected the winners in each category, and the awards will be delivered by Executive Vice-Presidents Henna Virkkunen and Roxana Mînzatu.