Context

Digital economy is a leading driver of European economy. As digital skills are becoming widely demanded, their prevalence in society needs to be monitored. The recently adopted 2021-2027 Digital Education Action Plan proposes stronger cooperation between Member States for a high-performing digital education ecosystem, and highlights the need to reinforce education in digital competences, from basic to advanced.
Investment in advanced digital skills is crucial to achieve international competitiveness and to reinforce Europe’s strategic digital capacities. In fact, the proposed Digital Europe programme acknowledges that artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and cybersecurity are key technologies that need to be further developed and made widely accessible. The Digital Europe programme aims at “increasing Europe's talent pool, bridging the digital divide, fostering greater professionalism taking into account gender balance”.
Approach
In support of policy initiatives to ensure the availability in the EU27 of an adequate education offer of advanced digital skills, AI Watch maps the higher education offer provided in the domains of artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cybersecurity and data science
Publications
Towards Children-Centred Trustworthy Conversational Agents
written by Marina Escobar-Planas, Vicky Charisi, Isabelle Hupont, Carlos-D Martínez-Hinarejos and Emilia Gómez
AI Watch Index 2021
This report provides the analysis of multiple indicators related to the development of artificial intelligence from several perspectives.

Estimation of supply and demand of tertiary education places in advanced digital profiles in the EU
This study estimates the supply and demand of university places for studies covering the technological domains of Artificial Intelligence (AI), High Performance Computing (HPC), Cybersecurity (CS) and Data Science (DS), in the EU27, United Kingdom and Norway.

Academic Offer of Advanced Digital Skills in 2019-20. International Comparison
The Academic offer of advanced digital skills report provides the number and characteristics of education programmes on advanced digital skills provided in the EU27 and six additional countries: The United Kingdom, Norway, and Switzerland in Europe, Canada and United States in America, and Australia

Artificial Intelligence: A European Perspective
This report presents a European view of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on independent research and analysis by the European Commission Joint
Research Centre.
News

An ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education
Teachers and students should be prepared to better understand and engage in the ethical use of AI and data.

Emerging trends in European Artificial Intelligence: skills, ethics, data protection, research and innovation
The European Commission (EC) and the OECD presented the findings of two reports that analyse national developments in artificial intelligence (AI) policies