New Skills for New Europeans – Immigrant Women Realizing Potential Women now account for over half of Europe’s immigrants. They face many challenges including higher unemployment and are often clustered in... Read more >>

CeBIT 2010: Chancellor Merkel and Prime Minister Zapatero visiting the Microsoft’s Digital Classroom CeBIT 2010 opened its doors yesterday, March 2nd. This year’s theme of the most important fair for the IT business is “connected world”. Read more >>

CeBiT puts eSkills in the spotlight We can no longer afford to discard skills and human capital if we want to meet the challenges of a knowledge-based society and to maintain European... Read more >>

Advertorial: The Digital Wake-up Call, European e-Skills Week This is an advertorial that we have produced recently with the European Commission in support of the European e-Skills Week (1-5 March 2010). Read more >>

INNOVATION & E-SKILLS: the lifeblood to Europe’s prosperity I strongly believe that innovation is the lifeblood of the 21st century economy. If we just take the way research is done today compared to 15 to... Read more >>

A Financial Times column: e-Skills make it into the boardroom Have a look at Ade McCormack’s recent Financial Times column, which highlights the importance of e-skills to our future, the role of management within... Read more >>

Interview: Working with Microsoft, a view from an Italian partner I recently had the chance to speak to one of our Students to Business partners, Roberto Pietra, who is VP of HR at the tech services firm, Avanade. Read more >>

Video blog: e-skills and the future of Europe The competitiveness challenge is one which will decide the future of Europe, and given the nature of globalisation, we as a continent need to get... Read more >>

Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems while creating new opportunities for innovative jobs… Every year, Microsoft runs the Imagine Cup, a global technology competition for students to develop their IT skills while at the same time making a... Read more >>

The mantra for Europe – academic/business footprint Forward-looking perspectives from INSEAD’s recent conference  ‘Building e-Competences to Strengthen Innovation in Europe’  and the European... Read more >>

MEPs discuss ICT as the key skill set for the jobs of the future Yesterday I attended an MEP breakfast debate on e-skills, organized by Digital Europe.  It was an enriching debate which demonstrated the level... Read more >>

Skills for Innovation: introducing the main results from an empirica / IDC e-Skills Study funded by the European Commission After the crisis, the e-skills gap is looming in Europe   Read more >>

MultiPoint Mouse Technologies No matter where I am, there’s one thing we hear that’s always the same: educators the world over want access to affordable, secure, and easy-to-use... Read more >>

Introducing the Microsoft Student Career Portal I’m very proud to be writing that Microsoft has just launched the Microsoft Student Career Portal! The portal provides insight on five IT careers,... Read more >>

Video: Extracts from debate on ‘Investing in the skills Europe needs for an Innovation Society?’ This video captures snapshots of the thoughts, recommendations and commentary that were sparked during the November 30th dinner debate around 'Skills... Read more >>

Webinar on “Skills for Innovation”: introducing the main results from the Microsoft - IDC e-Skills Study As you might have read in my recent post, the IDC last week published a report sponsored by Microsoft, entitled “Post Crisis: e-skills are needed to... Read more >>

Report: eSkills are needed to drive European innovation In the coming five years, only 10% of jobs will be left for those who have no ICT skills, a figure that is especially significant at a time of rising... Read more >>

New Study Reveals in 5 years 90 per cent of jobs will require ICT skills Research from 13 European countries indicates ICT skills requirements is driven by technology trends – not the recession. Read more >>

A programmer’s progress: Michał Moskal’s journey How a student from Wrocław became an expert in software verification – via Aachen and Redmond. Read more >>

Films inspire researcher’s work on futuristic computer displays As a teenager in 1990s war-torn Kosovo, Alban Rrustemi loved a good crime film – especially one with computing gadgets. Read more >>

Get on the Bus – what happened next? We recently wrote about the Get on the Bus tour of 12 European cities by the Microsoft Born to Learn team.  Read more >>

Britain Works We are glad to see that we at Microsoft are taking on challenge and the leadership to boost skills and employability in Europe especially in today's... Read more >>

Microsoft and the eSkills Impact Lutz Ziob, General Manager of Microsoft Learning, speaks of the importance of ICT skills for the European economy and workforce. Filmed in Brussels in... Read more >>

Microsoft Get on the Bus Tour Microsoft Learning drives around Europe with the Get on the Bus Tour. Video contains interview the participants as they stopped by Belgium.  Read more >>

e-skills in Europe: expert opinions Interviews with stakeholders on e-skills in Europe. Filmed at the launch of the report - Post Crisis: e-skills are needed to drive Europe’s innovation... Read more >>

eSkills according to Lutz Ziob of MS Learning No longer confined to geeks, eSkills is everybody's business. Read more >>

CITEVE for unemployed people CITEVE and Microsoft join hands to support Portugals textile industry workers by providing them with IT training to update their skills and re-enter... Read more >>

Jean Philippe Courtois, President of Microsoft International, on the skills gap Have a look at this interview with Jean Philippe Courtois produced by the INSEAD eLab, following the publication of a report by the European Business... Read more >>

Get on the Bus (and take your career to the next step...) As of last week the Microsoft Born to Learn team has been touring Europe on a bus and creating a lot of buzz...  Read more >>

Developing Skills in Britain We are glad to see that we at Microsoft are taking on challenge and the leadership to boost skills and employability in Europe especially in today's... Read more >>

Technology Skills Training Provides Key Route To New Jobs In Portugal An innovative partnership in Portugal that helps unemployed textile workers gain essential ICT skills and jobs is being extended to other industries. Read more >>

Boosting ‘IT fitness’ through skills and qualifications in Germany In Germany’s knowledge-rich economy, it is estimated that 75 percent of productivity growth is generated through the use of information and... Read more >>

Nation-wide IT skills training aims to boost growth and jobs in Hungary In Hungary, the ICT industry is leading an innovative national partnership with government, academic and non-profit organizations to deliver ICT... Read more >>

International University Uses Microsoft Certifications to Drive Employability and Job Opportunities The field of computing was still young in 1965 when SUPINFO was founded as the first French private higher-education school dedicated to information... Read more >>

Giving talented developers a head start on their careers Through the Students to Business (S2B) program, Microsoft collaborates with universities and businesses to provide students with specialized IT... Read more >>

Helping people gain skills for a changing economy Sylvie Laffarge, Microsoft's Director Community Affairs Europe, tells FUTURES that in challenging economic times, collaboration and investment in... Read more >>

NGO capacity building for social innovation “Technology can play a crucial role in enabling nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) to achieve their goals, share best practices, raise funds and... Read more >>

Innovation in IT training: the fit approach in Ireland Working with Ireland's most disadvantaged communities, the Fastrack to IT (FIT) is a successful example of an industry initiative which brings... Read more >>

Supporting Latvia’s innovation economy through technology training for SMEs Through its Digital Skills for SMEs program, the Latvia@World project is providing special training for small and medium sized enterprises and... Read more >>

Flying high: a technology volunteer’s story Ali Tarabit has been a volunteer with the charity organization Aviation Sans Frontières (ASF) for almost three years. With his help, ASF has... Read more >>

Training THE next generation If Europe is to prosper in the global economy, it needs a lot more people like Fabian Suchanek. The 27-year-old German student is full of enthusiasm... Read more >>

Innovation for social and economic empowerment Innovation isn't just what scientists and engineers do: it's also a feature of many community-based organisations and social entrepreneurs. But the... Read more >>