e-Skills Week - European Commission

Register for "Go digITal!" the e-Skills Week closing event!

5 March 2010
09.00 to 18.00
Square Meeting Centre, Brussels

About Go digITal!

Go digITal!, the e-Skills Week closing event, will take place on 5 March 2010 in the heart of Brussels. The event will be the culmination of the e-Skills Week, a European awareness raising campaign which highlights the growing demand of highly skilled ICT practitioners and users within the industry and inform students and young people about the diversity of careers offered by IT sector.

“Go digital!” will present the results of the activities organised in more than 20 countries and reward the best practices observed during the campaign. It will also formulate recommendations to ensure sustainability of the e-Skills Week action.

Five parallel workshops will provide the audience with experienced testimonies from high level speakers ICT teaching careers, an exhibition area will give a practical view of what are IT jobs to young people and a Prize ceremony will reward the students participating in e-Skills Week competition. After the conference, an evening party will close the event in a trendy place of Brussels!

Over 400 students from secondary and tertiary schools, teachers, professionals and ICT practitioners, SMEs, as well as high level figures from companies and from the European Commission and the Ministries of education will be gathered to exchange their experiences and their views to build a competitive Europe. An evening party will close the event in celebrating technologies (More information).

Programme

The programme of the event is available here (pdf)

Workshops

• IT Careers: Speed dating with IT students and professionals
• Thinkquest and Oracle Academy
• Nanoyou: a view on Nano-ICT
• e-Skills prize demonstrations
• e-Skills Week: Examples and lessons learned
• Attracting women and girls to the IT industry
• Netbooks in schools
• e-Skills Week: Sustainability

Register now for the e-Skills Week closing event:
 

Watch the sessions live!

We will be streaming the morning session live on the web using Elluminate. To connect simply click the links below. Access will be active on 5 March 2010 from 9.30-12.30 CET:

e-Skills Week - Welcome address

e-Skills Week - Award ceremony

When you connect, you will be asked to fill in a user name and install a small plug-in (java) to start listening and watching the sessions.

Practical information

Where?
@ Square-Brussels meeting centre
Glass Entrance - rue Mont des Arts straat
B-1000 Brussels

When?
Friday 5 March 2010, 9-18.00
Evening party starting at 21.00