European e-Skills Week Takes Flight with Passion

Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) -

European e-Skills Week 2012 Campaign - backed by the European
Commission - has launched its official website -
eskills-week.ec.europa.eu. The motto of this year's campaign being:
e-Skills: there is a job waiting for you.

The European e-Skills Week [C:Documents and
SettingsrichianLocal SettingsTemporary Internet
FilesOLKE4eskills-week.ec.europa.eu ] is promoted by DG Enterprise
and Industry in the context of the European Commission Communication
on 'e-Skills for the 21st Century', [http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/
sectors/ict/files/comm_pdf_com_2007_0496_f_en_acte_en.pdf ] and
complements other Europe 2020 flagship activities including the
'Digital Agenda for Europe
[http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/index_en.htm
]' and 'An agenda for new skills and jobs
[http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=958 ]' which are
addressing the mismatch between education system and labour market by
improving the employability of young people in Europe.

The European e-Skills Opening Event takes place in Brussels on 19
March [http://tiny.cc/rw3lp ]. The Closing Event takes place on 30
March in Copenhagen
[http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/web/guest/closing-registration ].
And, hundreds of events will take place during e-Skills Week and to
May 2012. Information on the different events, career and training
opportunities in each participating country, plus chances to meet the
stakeholders from industry and education who have joined the campaign
is on the website.

The e-Skills Week Project Passion competition [http://eskills-we
ek.ec.europa.eu/web/guest/project-passion;jsessionid=60793627D18DB038
E583265EABB7B1CB ] provides an exciting opportunity for young people
to create their own awareness campaigns about the value and
importance of e-Skills to improve chances of getting a job. Project
Passion is open to people between the ages of 16-26. Entrants must
create an original, quirky, innovative communication that
demonstrates how e-Skills can help young people get a job, fuel
innovation, or drive creativity. Thousands of euros in prizes,plus an
assortment of digital goodies are up for grabs including:
Xbox/Kinect, Nokia Lumia, and paid internships/ shadowing
opportunities in global companies to kick-start careers.

Entries will be judged by: Jean Marie Dru, Chairman TBWA
Worldwide, Philippe Cayla, President of Euronews Development,
EURONEWS, Pekka Isosomppi, Director, Corporate Relations and
Responsibility Nokia, Sylvie Laffarge, Director Corporate Citizenship
& Public Affairs, Microsoft Europe. Nils Fondstad, Associate Director
at eLab, INSEAD, Professor Jean-Pierre Beaudoin, Associate Professor,
Celsa, Sorbonne, and Dr Shakuntala Banaji, Lecturer, London School of
Economics.

The Project Passion entry deadline has been extended to 30 June
2012. Help others discover how they can get e-Skills. Enter here [ht
tp://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/web/guest/project-passion;jsessionid=6
0793627D18DB038E583265EABB7B1CB ] .

e-Skills Week [C:Documents and SettingsrichianLocal
SettingsTemporary Internet FilesOLKE4eskills-week.ec.europa.eu ]
is delivered by DIGITALEUROPE [http://www.digitaleurope.org ], the
industry association representing the European Digital Economy,
European Schoolnet [http://www.eun.or ], a network of National
Ministries of Education together with partners across Europe. Find
out more about e-Skills Week here
[http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu/web/guest/press ].

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Enquiries: Natalia KUROP : DIGITALEUROPE - Director,
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