Practical implementation of e-CF and other factors for boosting ICT professionalism in Europe
15 December 2016
Together with building consensus on a comprehensive and consistent ICT professionalism framework, the efforts of the eCF Alliance focus on practical testing of correlations between e-competences, vocational qualification systems, certification paths and content from the point of view of training providers.
The work of the consortium builds on the results of a survey run from November 2015 to March 2016 among more than 100 ICT-related companies and organisations in 6 European countries, meant to provide national-level input to a study on the-state-of-the-art on ICT professions and market, and employability trends. It involved VET providers, competence certifications and credit systems providers, social partners and professional associations.
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The respondents highlighted that awareness of the private sector of EU standards is still low and the priorities for fostering the ICT profession are: educational programmes aligned with industry needs; embedding technical multi-disciplinarity in the curricula; and building further awareness of the importance of e-competences for innovation, competitiveness and employability.
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Survey participants also identified 15 e-competences -among the 40 listed in the e-CF- that according to them are the most important for ICT professionals and should be developed and analyzed from an educational outcomes and educational objectives perspective:
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A.9 Innovating
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E.8 Information Security Management
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A.5 Architecture Design
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A.1 Information Systems and Business Strategy Alignment
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B.1 Application Development
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B.6 Systems Engineering
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D.1 Information Security Strategy Development
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C.4 Problem Management
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A.6 Application Design
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D.2 ICT Quality Strategy Development
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B.3 Testing
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E.6 ICT Quality Management
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A.3 Business Plan Development
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A.7 Technology Trend Monitoring
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B.2 Component Integration
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According to the stakeholders who answered the survey, the domains were the gap between supply and demand is bigger are:
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Software development – indicated by 27 respondents
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Business/ management (i.e. project management, strategical thinking, agile methodologies etc.) – indicated by 26 respondents
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Cyber security– indicated by 14 respondents.
Many of the results from this survey were confirmed in the analysis made by Capgemini Consulting, Ernst & Young, and IDC in the interim report on the “Development and Implementation of a European Framework for the IT profession” released in June 2016.
For more information, please contact:
Pavel Varbanov, European Software Institute - Center Eastern Europe
pavel@esicenter.bg
