AUAS: Call to bridge Europe’s digital skills gap

Today, on Europe Day, the European Commission (EC) is officially kicking off the '2023 Year of Skills'. This is important, because Europe is facing a serious digital skills gap: only 54% of Europeans possess a basic digital skill set, despite 90% of jobs having a digital component to them*. Ronald Kleijn, who developed the successful retraining programme Make IT Work at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), is coordinating the EU Pact for Skills Digital which aims to bridge Europe's digital skills gap.