Leading European Advanced Digital Skills

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The overall goal of leADS is to provide insights into the changing advanced digital skills (ADS) demands within a dynamic technological development context and current digital transformation to equip skills suppliers (education and training) with the knowledge, guidance and best practices to shape the future of European ADS talent and support the effective implementation and collaborative success of the ADS programme within the Digital Europe Programme (DEP). leADS will act across three key areas within which it will develop key knowledge (ADS Demand Report, ADS Gap Analysis) and insights that will be translated into actions and guidance (ADS Guidelines, ADS Roadmap) through active engagement with the broader education and training community and the SPECIALISED cohort of projects through deficaded topic groups (Impact Analysis, DIGITAL ADS Recommendations) directly connecting them with the skills ecosystem (Supply, Demand Generators, Demand). The consortium has targeted specific indicators to be reached during the 18-month period, including 1000 survey participants contacted, 600 courses analysed, 10 workshops delivered, 250 ecosystem members engaged and more than 150 participants to the two leADS events. The leADS consortium has significant strength in the design and delivery of international studies related to business, technology and digital skills including the world leader in market studies and author of many European studies on digital skills with the support of other consultancies who have provided studies tailored to digital skills in SMEs, managed European wide networks of Digital Skills actors and developed policy documents and strategies for tech development and adoption across the EU with measures on global competitiveness. This is balanced with first-hand experience in developing and delivering courses and programmes, certification, skills framework development and supporting startup and SME growth.