Technology can be an amazing tool to help drive social change and economic development. In their constant...

The EU 2020 strategy calls for economic growth based on a smart, sustainable and inclusive model that targets...

Picture 400 of the brightest young minds from 70 countries in Poland, selected from 325,000 students revealing...

In June the "Enterprise & Industry Magazine" of the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry of the...

The 2010 Zero Poverty campaign spearheaded by Caritas in Europe reveals that 1 person in 10 with a job in the...

Can Europe use cloud computing to stimulate economic growth?  If so, what skills will be needed to make...

If you missed the chance to read Professor Jonathan Liebenau’s great post of skills and cloud computing, I...

It takes some new thinking to be able to benefit from cloud services.  As much as service providers might...

Against the backdrop of the biggest eSkills campaign in Europe, an exciting national eSkills roadshow to help...

With UK unemployment reaching 2.5m and 77% of all jobs requiring digital skills, we launched Britain Works in...

Sylvie Laffarge tells FUTURES why eSkills are increasingly important for immigrant women looking for...

The first ever meeting of the G20 employment ministers  set the tone for a concerted response to the...

Caritas and Microsoft are working together to help disadvantaged people in Europe find employment, escape...

We were at the Go digITal event during eSkills week earlier March and spoke to a number of ICT students...

The European Union has singled education and training as one of its priorities with the adoption of the Lisbon...

www.e-aptitudini.ro portal puts the incentive on upgrading skills! An initiative launched during the European...

The pace of change and development in education has picked up substantially in recent years – largely because...

Education is one of the important targets in Europe’s 2020 Strategy and rightly so.

The feeling in Berlin this week is not quite one of the majestic city of the past, but much more an...

With support from Microsoft, enabling Telecentre-Europe to meet and develop the bid, they have secured a...

Women now account for over half of Europe’s immigrants. They face many challenges including higher...

CeBIT 2010 opened its doors yesterday, March 2nd. This year’s theme of the most important fair for the IT...

We can no longer afford to discard skills and human capital if we want to meet the challenges of a...

This is an advertorial that we have produced recently with the European Commission in support of the European...

I strongly believe that innovation is the lifeblood of the 21st century economy. If we just take the way...

Have a look at Ade McCormack’s recent Financial Times column, which highlights the importance of e-skills to...

I recently had the chance to speak to one of our Students to Business partners, Roberto Pietra, who is VP of...

The competitiveness challenge is one which will decide the future of Europe, and given the nature of...

Every year, Microsoft runs the Imagine Cup, a global technology competition for students to develop their IT...

Forward-looking perspectives from INSEAD’s recent conference  ‘Building e-Competences to Strengthen...

Yesterday I attended an MEP breakfast debate on e-skills, organized by Digital Europe.  It was an...

After the crisis, the e-skills gap is looming in Europe  

No matter where I am, there’s one thing we hear that’s always the same: educators the world over want access...

I’m very proud to be writing that Microsoft has just launched the Microsoft Student Career Portal! The portal...

This video captures snapshots of the thoughts, recommendations and commentary that were sparked during the...

As you might have read in my recent post, the IDC last week published a report sponsored by Microsoft,...

In the coming five years, only 10% of jobs will be left for those who have no ICT skills, a figure that is...

Research from 13 European countries indicates ICT skills requirements is driven by technology trends – not the...

How a student from Wrocław became an expert in software verification – via Aachen and Redmond.

As a teenager in 1990s war-torn Kosovo, Alban Rrustemi loved a good crime film – especially one with computing...

We recently wrote about the Get on the Bus tour of 12 European cities by the Microsoft Born to Learn...

We are glad to see that we at Microsoft are taking on challenge and the leadership to boost skills and...

Lutz Ziob, General Manager of Microsoft Learning, speaks of the importance of ICT skills for the European...

Microsoft Learning drives around Europe with the Get on the Bus Tour. Video contains interview the...

Interviews with stakeholders on e-skills in Europe. Filmed at the launch of the report - Post Crisis: e-skills...

No longer confined to geeks, eSkills is everybody's business.

CITEVE and Microsoft join hands to support Portugals textile industry workers by providing them with IT...

Have a look at this interview with Jean Philippe Courtois produced by the INSEAD eLab, following the...

As of last week the Microsoft Born to Learn team has been touring Europe on a bus and creating a lot of...

We are glad to see that we at Microsoft are taking on challenge and the leadership to boost skills and...

An innovative partnership in Portugal that helps unemployed textile workers gain essential ICT skills and jobs...

In Germany’s knowledge-rich economy, it is estimated that 75 percent of productivity growth is generated...

In Hungary, the ICT industry is leading an innovative national partnership with government, academic and...

The field of computing was still young in 1965 when SUPINFO was founded as the first French private...

Through the Students to Business (S2B) program, Microsoft collaborates with universities and businesses to...

Sylvie Laffarge, Microsoft's Director Community Affairs Europe, tells FUTURES that in challenging economic...

“Technology can play a crucial role in enabling nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) to achieve their goals,...

Working with Ireland's most disadvantaged communities, the Fastrack to IT (FIT) is a successful example of an...

Through its Digital Skills for SMEs program, the Latvia@World project is providing special training for small...

Ali Tarabit has been a volunteer with the charity organization Aviation Sans Frontières (ASF) for almost three...

If Europe is to prosper in the global economy, it needs a lot more people like Fabian Suchanek. The...

Innovation isn't just what scientists and engineers do: it's also a feature of many community-based...