Dimitris Theodorakis, Policy and Research Officer CEPIS

1. Professional e-Competence
in Europe
Dimitris Theodorakis
Policy & Research Officer

2. The European e-Competence
Framework – e-CF
• The European e-Competence Framework
(e-CF) was created by the CEN Workshop on
ICT Skills
• It is a reference framework of 36 ICT
competences, classified in five main
ICT business areas
• Who can use it?
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3. The European e-Competence
Framework – e-CF
Dimension 1
PLAN - BUILD - RUN - ENABLE -
MANAGE
Dimension 2
36 reference e-Competences for
each area
Dimension 3
Proficiency levels of each e-
Competence: e-1 to e-5
Dimension 4
Samples of knowledge and skills
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4. The European e-Competence
Framework – e-CF
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5. Aims of the Professional e-
Competence in Europe project
To provide picture of the competences
of ICT practitioners in Europe today
To raise awareness of the e-CF by using
it as the basis for analysis
To work towards developing a pan-
European vision of professionalism
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6. Council of European Professional
Informatics Societies
Online
survey
Disseminated via
2000 CEPIS network of
respondents informatics societies
in greater Europe
28 Countries
participating
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7. The outputs
of the project
Individual
profile report
Country report
Pan-European
report
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8. Professional e-Competence in Europe 8

9. Professional e-Competence in Europe 9

10. Professional e-Competence in Europe 10

11. Personal
Report I
Competence
Areas
e-Competences
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12. Personal
Report II
Competences required by
the represented profile
(GREEN)
Competence required by
the profile but where
respondent has
deficiency (RED)
Competences that
exceed those
required by the
profile (BLUE)
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13. Survey Outputs
10 National Reports (Belgium, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Malta, Norway, Romania and Spain)
European report is published
Demonstrate the utility of the e-CF as a
practical competence framework based on
feedback from respondents
1st pan-European application of e-CF
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14. Professional e-Competence
in Europe
34.3%
30.1%
AGE
The number of professionals
18.8%
16.8%
under 30 is very low –
confirms anticipated
shortages.
< 30 yr 31 .. 40 yr 41 .. 50 yr > 50 yr
Europe 16%
Italy 8%
Finland 24%
Gender Ireland 19%
Belgium 12%
European average of 16% of Malta 16%
respondents are female. 12% Spain 11%
Norway 15%
of respondents for Belgium. Latvia 15%
Bosnia-Herz. 19%
Romania 28%
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15. Professional e-Competence
in Europe
45.4% Education
More than half of the
respondents (51.1%) have
28.2% either a Master or a PhD
qualification, but not
17.9%
sufficiently focused on IT!
5.7%
2.8%
None of the Secondary University University Doctorate
above School Bachelors Masters (Phd.)
Diploma Degree Degree
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16. Professional e-Competence
in Europe
IT Manager P01 16%
Notable IT Quality Manager & Auditor P02 26%
Concurrence berween declared and
differences IT Client Manager P03 13%
IT Sales & Mktg Consultant P04 12%
between
calculated (% on declared)
IT Applications Consultant P05 5%
declared and Business Analyst P06 6%
IT Project Manager P07 17%
calculated IT Systems Analyst P08 17%
Software Developer P09 40%
profiles Integr. & Testing Engineer P10 17%
IT Systems Architect P11 15%
IT Security Manager P12 30%
Only 21% of Database Administrator P13 37%
respondents Network Manager P14 11%
IT Administrator P15 33%
meet the IT Systems Engineer P16 19%
Service Support Manager P17 27%
calculated IT Trainer P18 31%
profile Total 21%
Declared profile
Europe Calculated profile
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17. Professional e-Competence
in Europe
Profile Distribution: 1 - 10 11 - 50 51 - 250 251 - 1000 1000+
Europe 11.2% 11.9% 22% 21% 34%
By educational level: 80% with
university degree Italy n.a.
By IT education: 63% main Finland 7.9%6.6% 19% 24% 43%
subject Ireland 14.4% 11.7% 13% 19% 42%
By IT industry: Professionals Belgium 4.9%
4.4%7% 12% 72%
Malta 2.2%
7.7% 45% 35% 10%
equally split between supply
Spain 13.3% 14.5% 18% 19% 35%
(49%) and demand (51%) IT Norway n.a.
sector Latvia 27.7% 13.3% 19% 24% 16%
By enterprise size: Majority inBosnia-Herz. 12.6% 27.6% 28% 14% 18%
large organisations. Romania 6.2% 35.4% 34% 23% 2%
KI distribution
Plan 1,66 and Build 1,67 and Run 1,68 out of 3,0: to be
improved - Enable 1,38: a lot to do - Manage 1,51: a lot to do
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18. Results Synopsis
Only 21% of IT professionals
professionals had the e- IT Manager was the
across Europe show a
competences to match most declared job
low level of
their declared profile. In profile, however only
other words, 79% may
competence in some
8% of these match
not have the breadth of of the five e-CF e-
the e-competences
e-competences needed competence areas
needed for the role.
for their roles. especially in ‘Enable’.
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19. Comparative Results for Belgium I
ITEMS BELGIUM EUROPE
Average Age of respondents 43 41
Age segment <30 10.5% 16.8%
41 - 50 years 39.3% 30.1%
Female respondents 12% 16%
Male respondents 88% 84%
Education level of respondents
Secondary School Diploma 2.1% 17.9%
Master’s Degree 69.6% 45.4%
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20. Comparative Results for Belgium II
ITEMS BELGIUM EUROPE
Respondents by Educational
Field
Main Focus 48% 63%
Side subject 37% 25%
Not significant 16% 12%
Respondents by Enterprise Size
1 - 10 employees 4.9% 11.2%
11 - 50 employees 4.4% 11.9%
251 - 1000 employees 11.5% 20.8%
1000+ employees 72% 33.9%
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21. Comparative Results for Belgium III
ITEMS BELGIUM EUROPE
Respondents by ICT Profile
IT Manager 35.1% 23.6%
IT Quality Manager & Auditor 3.7% 2.8%
Business Analyst 9.9% 5.7%
Software Developer 5.8% 12.9%
IT Security Manager 7.3% 2.6%
Proximity Profile
IT Manager 15.2% 8.0%
IT Quality Manager & Auditor 9.9% 4.2%
IT Project Manager 16.2% 8.0%
% of Declared Profiles 19% 21%
matching Proximity Profiles
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22. RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Young talent is lacking
2. Continuous Professional Development
3. Defined Career paths
4. Gender imbalance
5. e-CF application
Video, National reports, and the
European report can be found at:
http://cepis.org/professionalecompetence
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23. European Framework for
ICT Professionalism
Four key building blocks for an ICT Profession:
A common Body of Knowledge (BoK)?
• Large number of BoKs
• Are ICT BoKs fit for purpose?
• Need to define a Foundational ICT BoK
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24. Driving ICT Professionalism
forward
Competences
• ICT Competence Frameworks provide value
Certification, standards and qualifications
• Certifications and qualifications are crucial
• Significant lack of mapping to Competence Frameworks
Professional ethics / codes of conduct
• Align codes to a common guidelines or meta framework
on ethics issues
European Training Programmes for CIOs / ICT
Managers
• Address ICT driven innovation challenges
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25. E-Skills & ICT Professionalism
Future actions
Follow-up actions:
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Sustainable business model for e-CF
• ICT Professional Profiles and career pathways
aligned to e-CF
• Mapping of certifications and qualifications
• Collaboration between academia and industry
• Research the possible alignment of existing
Codes of Ethics
• Support industry engagement
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26. Thank you for your attention!
dimitris.theodorakis@cepis.org
• The European e-Competence Framework:
http://www.ecompetences.eu/
• CEPIS Professional e-Competence in Europe:
http://www.cepis.org/professionalecompetence
• E-Skills and ICT Professionalism:
http://www.cepis.org/professionalism
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