In the e-Skills Week video- and podcasts high-level industry partners and policy makers talk about the future of e-Skills in Europe. See what the speakers think about women in IT, e-Competences and the financial crisis, and how e-Skills can help to eradicate poverty.

One of the most exciting jobs out in the market today is video game designing. Many have the impression that it would take too much time and skills to accomplish this - but it does not!

Did you miss the e-Skills Week opening conference or the closing event? The videos from both of the events are now available through the e-Skills Week portal.
Opening event videos
Closing event videos

Inanimate Alice is an entertaining story for young people aged 8 upwards. It is a digital novel - an interactive multimedia fictional tale - told with pictures, music and sound effects.

The new INSEAD eLab study provides useful guidelines to improve the quality, the relevance and the attractiveness of ICT education and training.

A new report published by the European Commission shows that ICT and New Media could improve language learning with the help of tailor-made technology support.

The e-Skills Week closing event Go digITal! held on 5 March in Brussels highlighted the need for more actions to encourage young people to study IT careers and develop e-Skills. Videos and blog posts from the workshops are published at the e-Skills Week portal and blog.

The financial crisis has highlighted deficiencies in knowledge-based skills in Europe and unless they’re tackled now, the region could get left behind. That was one of the key messages from a recent event co/hosted by INSEAD and the European Commission.

As part of the European e-Skills Week 2010, a competition was launched to reward young people and teachers who demonstrate a commitment to ICT and excellent digital skills. The finalists were invited to attend the award ceremony organised on 5 March 2010  in Brussels.

This year’s theme of CeBIT, the most important fair for the IT business, was “connected world”. Microsoft took this as an ideal opportunity for a dialogue on how IT can be a tremendous benefit for learning and skills development.

Telecentre-Europe was holding the first ever European Get Online Day on 4 March 2010, which turned out to be huge success! More than 50,000 people were reached by the campaign on the day itself, in more than 18 European countries.

Major UK employers have joined together to urge the government to prioritise technology and technology skills as the key to economic growth.

The EeSA launch announcement was held on the official opening event of the e-Skills Week at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany on 2 March 2010. This event marked both EeSA’s commitment to eSkills in Europe, but also its alliance with other major stakeholders in the drive towards growth, innovation and skills in Europe.

Have you ever wanted to test your skills and creativity by building your own software add-on? Are you tempted to customise or improve the functionality of existing programs, create a macro that can be shared with others, or simply have some fun with technology? Now is your big chance and you can win big prizes for your efforts!

During the 2009-2010 academic year 25 pilot schools have been teaching nanotechnologies in their classrooms with a wide range of materials, including videos, online animations, games, workshops, virtual dialogues, and virtual experiments based on existing research. We are now looking for the next generation of NANOYOU schools.