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24.06.15 - New website of the Portuguese Coalition for Digital Jobs (in Portuguese)
The Portuguese Coalition for Digital Jobs (PCDJ) is Portugal’s answer to the challenge launched by the European Commission’ Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs , a multi-stakeholder partnership set up to address the lack of digital skills in Europe and to tackle the expected deficit of 900 000 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals by 2020. The Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs and the Portuguese Coalition for Digital Jobs both aim to combat this serious obstacle to recovery and economic growth.
Coordinated by FCT, the PCDJ brings together 18 different organisations, to create the mechanisms that may ensure training of young people in ICT, retraining and requalification of unemployed in ICT, greater awareness of the unique opportunities for jobs in this area and the internationalization of the ICT sector.
The PCDJ is oriented for the collaboration between the public and the private sectors, between academic and technical communities, non-governmental organisations and civil society.
Officially established in April 2015, the PCDJ has as its short-term aim to develop a 2015-2020 Strategy and Action Plan for Digital Jobs. The strategy outlines several measures to increase talent supply in ICT, and addresses the lack of these professionals in the current and future labor market. The initiative involves economic, education and employment areas and will include recommendations for the creation and / or articulation of national policy instruments, of public and private initiatives, that may contribute to fill the 15 000 job gap in ICT predicted for Portugal in 2020, in an environment of high unemployment, particularly of the young and qualified.
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