Scientix 9th SPNE Brussels 6 November 2015: I-LINC

Date: 06/11/2015Anusca Ferrari, EUN

1. What is I-LINC

•I-LINC aims to bring together a rich and active community of stakeholders aspiringto become the largest European community in the field of ICT (for) learning and inclusion devoted to enhance youth employability.

•I-LINC will be the meeting point for stakeholders to discuss and designsolutions and policy options to modernise education through ICT and create a new "digital" path for employment for young people.

2. Why I-LINC

• Massive unemployment of young people in the ICT industry particularly, but also in other industries wherever employers need people with ICT skills, the skills gap is quickly widening

• Young people not fully aware of the skills they need for the digital jobs

• Formal education curriculum not developed to support the full set of ICT skills for jobs

3. How I-LINC works

Online portal: www.i-linc.eu that features a significant amount of relevant information for stakeholders: events, stakeholder database, best practices, articles, policy hub, wiki spaces, opinions, etc.

Offline activities: workshops, conferences, focus groups

4. I-LINC stakeholders

• Formal and non-formal education providers: schools, training centres and adult

education centres, telecentres

• Digital and socio-economic inclusion provider: telecentres, NGO-run telecentres,

public libraries, municipal centres

• Organisations focused on youth employability

• Young people

4. Why join I-LINC

• Information and knowledge about other stakeholders and initiatives in the field of ICT for learning and ICT for inclusion

• Resources and research on ICT for learning and ICT for inclusion

• Opportunities to connect and meet, both online and offline with other stakeholders

• Possibility to finding partners for common initiatives, to start a task force on a certain issue or join forces

5. Call to action

Join the platform today by registering on www.i-linc.eu

Fill the stakeholder survey available on the platform