E-skills: The story continues: European e-skills conference

Summary of the The European e-skills 2004 conference, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 20-21 September 2004. This high-level conference, organised by the European Commission and Cedefop, brought together experts and decision makers from the public and private sectors to discuss e-skills issues, including global sourcing, as well as strategies and best practices to boost e-skills, e-learning, competitiveness and job creation. It was organised around the activities of the European e-Skills Forum and constituted an important milestone after the first European e-Skills Summit which took place in 2002 in Copenhagen.

• Primary Source

European Commission: Enterprise DG: Enterprise Policies: Policy areas: E-business: Technology for innovation/ICT industries and e-business http://ec.europa.eu/comm/enterprise/ict/policy/ict-skills.htm

European Commission: Enterprise DG: The European E-skills forum: E-skills for Europe: Towards 2010 and beyond: Synthesis report, September 2004 http://ec.europa.eu/comm/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/e-skills-forum-2004-09-fsr.pdf

European e-skills 2004 conference: Homepage http://www.eskills2004.org/

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