Professional e-Competence in Europe

Professional e-Competence

in Europe Dimitris Theodorakis

Policy & Research Officer

The European e-Competence

Framework – e-CF

2 Professional e-Competence in Europe

• 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?


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


Framework – e-CF


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


Council of European Professional

Informatics Societies

Online survey

Disseminated via CEPIS network of

informatics societies in greater Europe

28 Countries participating

2000 respondents


The outputs

of the project

Individual profile report Country report

Pan-European report


Professional e-Competence in Europe 8



Competence

Areas

e-Competences

Professional e-Competence in Europe

Personal

Report I

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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)

Personal

Report II

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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



in Europe

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18.8%

34.3%

30.1%

16.8%

< 30 yr 31 .. 40 yr 41 .. 50 yr > 50 yr

AGE

The number of professionals

under 30 is very low –

confirms anticipated

shortages.

24%

19%

12%

16%

11%

15%

15%

19%

28%

8%

16%Europe

Italy

Finland

Ireland

Belgium

Malta

Spain

Norway

Latvia

Bosnia-Herz.

Romania

Gender

European average of 16% of

respondents are female. 12%

of respondents for Belgium.


15

Education

More than half of the

respondents (51.1%) have

either a Master or a PhD

qualification, but not

sufficiently focused on IT!

45.4%

5.7%2.8%

28.2%

17.9%

None of the

above

Secondary

School

Diploma

University

Bachelors

Degree

University

Masters

Degree

Doctorate

(Phd.)



in Europe

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Notable

differences

between

declared and

calculated

profiles

Only 21% of

respondents

meet the

calculated

profile

16%

26%

13%

12%

5%

6%

17%

17%

40%

17%

15%

30%

37%

11%

33%

19%

27%

31%

21%Total

Co

ncu

rren

ce b

erw

een

decla

red

an

d

calc

ula

ted

(% o

n d

ecla

red)

IT Manager P01

IT Quality Manager & Auditor P02

IT Client Manager P03

IT Sales & Mktg Consultant P04

IT Applications Consultant P05

Business Analyst P06

IT Project Manager P07

IT Systems Analyst P08

Software Developer P09

Integr. & Testing Engineer P10

IT Systems Architect P11

IT Security Manager P12

Database Administrator P13

Network Manager P14

IT Administrator P15

IT Systems Engineer P16

Service Support Manager P17

IT Trainer P18

Declared profile

Calculated profileEurope



in Europe

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Profile Distribution:

By educational level: 80% with

university degree

By IT education: 63% main

subject

By IT industry: Professionals

equally split between supply

(49%) and demand (51%) IT

sector

By enterprise size: Majority in

large organisations.

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

7.9%

14.4%

4.9%

2.2%

13.3%

27.7%

12.6%

6.2%

11.9%

6.6%

11.7%

4.4%

7.7%

14.5%

13.3%

27.6%

35.4%

22%

19%

13%

7%

45%

18%

19%

28%

34%

21%

24%

19%

12%

35%

19%

24%

14%

23%

34%

43%

42%

72%

10%

35%

16%

18%

2%

n.a.

11.2%

n.a.

Europe

Italy

Finland

Ireland

Belgium

Malta

Spain

Norway

Latvia

Bosnia-Herz.

Romania

1 - 10 11 - 50 51 - 250 251 - 1000 1000+



in Europe

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Only 21% of professionals had the e-competences to match

their declared profile. In other words, 79% may

not have the breadth of e-competences needed

for their roles.

IT Manager was the most declared job

profile, however only 8% of these match the e-competences needed for the role.

IT professionals across Europe show a

low level of competence in some

of the five e-CF e-competence areas

especially in ‘Enable’.


Results Synopsis


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%


Comparative Results for Belgium II


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%


Comparative Results for Belgium III


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 matching Proximity Profiles

19% 21%


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




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


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


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


Thank you for your attention!

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• 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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