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On the occasion of the International Girls in ICT day 2018, Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, together with 76 MEPs, has sent a letter to ministers of all 28 Member States of the European Union urging them to play a more active role in promoting opportunities for women to participate in the digital sector.

Today the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition celebrates its 100th pledge aimed at bringing digital skills to Europeans. Since the launch in December 2016, organisations, government bodies and businesses who are members of the Coalition provided more than 3.7 million online or face-to-face trainings, one million certificates and 9,000 job placements and internships. Over a million citizens became more aware of the importance of digital skills for employability, competitiveness and participation in society through various organised activities.

On the occasion of the International Women's Day today, Commissioner Mariya Gabriel in charge of Digital Economy and Society outlined her strategy to implement actions that will facilitate an increase in the participation of women in the digital sector. The actions will focus on three main areas: challenging stereotypes; promoting digital skills and education and advocating for more women entrepreneurs.

To follow up on the Gothenburg Summit, the European Commission has today adopted new initiatives to improve key competences and digital skills of European citizens, to promote common values and pupils' awareness of the functioning of the European Union.

At the Internet Governance Forum, European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and Members of the European Parliament: Michał Boni, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Eva Kaili, Tiemo Wölken, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Marisa Matias, Barbara Kappel have signed a common Declaration.

MolenGeek coding school has presented the first project "The Padua Tech Station by MolenGeek" to scale up in Europe in the presence of Commission Vice-President Ansip and Belgium Deputy Prime Minister De Croo.

At the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition conference, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, unveiled the first Digital Opportunity traineeships available for students and announced the winners of the European Digital Skills Awards 2017. She also spoke about the achievements of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition in its first year: over 300 members with nearly 90 organisations taking concrete action by involving millions of Europeans.

Twenty projects which encourage the development of digital skills in Europe have been selected as finalists for the European Digital Skills Award 2017. The best projects promoting excellence in Digital Skills will be awarded by Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, at the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition conference in Brussels on 7th December. Winners and finalists will exhibit their projects at the conference.

The fifth edition of EU Code Week will take place from 7 to 22 October 2017. Hundreds of thousands of people will be programming all over Europe. Schools, non-for profit organizations, businesses, libraries, code clubs are all busy organising coding events and showing people and peers how to bring ideas to life with code.

Today, the European Commission is launching the second European Digital Skills Awards. Companies and other organisations are invited to submit projects they have implemented to improve digital skills in Europe for the awards. The best 4 projects designed at improving the digital skills of citizens, the labour force, ICT professional and in education will receive an award. A fifth award will go to the best project which also address the needs of women and girls. Extended deadline 5 November 2017.