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Call for proposals for digital inclusion 2023
The Ministry of Digitalisation is launching a call for projects for the funding of projects promoting digital inclusion in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the year 2023. The call is part of the implementation strategy of the National Action Plan for Digital Inclusion. The 2023 call for projects is structured around three areas of …
Cisco and Luxembourg Renew their Collaboration in Digital Transformation
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and Chuck Robbins, President and CEO of Cisco, announced new initiatives to accelerate the digital transformation in Luxembourg. These initiatives will focus on three pillars: As part of its Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) programme, Cisco …
EUMaster4HPC: apply now to become the next European expert in supercomputing!
Applications for EUMaster4HPC, the first pan-European Master programme in High Performance Computing (HPC), are now open! You will be trained by leading European specialists in HPC to become the new generation expert in the field. EUMaster4HPC has been designed by a unique partnership between HPC education and the private sector to provide students with unique …
Digital Skills and Jobs Platform: the new home of digital skills in Europe
To help bridge the digital skills gap in Europe, the European Commission, together with National stakeholders, has created the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, the new home of high-quality information, initiatives and resources on digital skills from across Europe. The Platform will become a unique reference point for digital skills, enabling all Europeans – citizens, …
Boosting AI research and education: universities join forces to offer better programmes and courses
The rising pertinence, volume and influence of discussions surrounding Artificial Intelligence in Europe is indisputable. Particularly with the European Union’s official Artificial Intelligence Act on the approach, AI training is becoming an essential element for both countries and people in the European bloc and beyond. France, for example, has quickly positioned AI research and education …
In the fast-evolving digital world, the challenge now is to support the behavioural changes in citizens, organisations and processes needed to cope with this immaterial environment, still unfamiliar to many of us. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) aims at supporting a new mind-set of staying safe in this new digital age. In this …
Cybersecurity is a crucial concern for us all: cyber risks are near the top of the list of global threats worldwide. It is therefore no wonder that the EU invests increasingly substantial amounts into cybersecurity solutions. While we can have many advanced protection systems, they will only work if we have the people who know …
The Digital Skills Initiative: Closing the Digital Skills Gap in Austria
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, our daily life looks more digital than before. And this is also true for the world of work: Austria’s digital transformation has been accelerated, bringing with this a structural change too. What does the digital transformation mean for us in Austria? We need to take every citizen with us on our digital …
We had the opportunity to offer the partners and members of the DSJC Luxembourg a Belval Digital Tour on 24 November 2022 for the whole morning. First, the group was warmly welcomed by Serge Linckels for a visit of the Digital Learning Hub and a presentation of the concept of this infrastructure and in particular to the Ecole 42 …
Luxembourg Internet Days – Digital Skills and Jobs workshop
In the framework of the Luxembourg Internet Days, which took place from the 15th to the 16th of November 2022 at the Chamber of Commerce, a workshop was organised by the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition with the support of Digital Luxembourg. Around 50 students participated and took part in the discussions with professionals. The objective of …
Helping People Interact with AI Systems in a Confident, Critical and Safe Way
People can safely drive to their desired destination by following traffic rules and agreed codes of conduct without necessarily knowing how the car’s engine works. Now, let’s apply the same analogy when we think about how people interact with AI systems, such as digital assistants using voice recognition, or algorithms that guide us to the …
5 key factors to create successful digital skills initiatives
Where is Spain on the road towards the digital transformation? The lack of technological knowledge remains a challenge for Spain – close to half of Spanish companies experience difficulties in recruiting suitable digital talents. The hardest-to-find technology-related profiles are those linked to data analytics, cloud computing, and application development. There is still room to improve, …