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 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. 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, aiming 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 of an adequate education offer of advanced digital skills in all Member States, the JRC research on education covers:
- a mapping of the higher education offer provided in the domains of artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cybersecurity and data science
- exploration on key emerging technologies and their potential impact in education
- the interaction of AI, and other digital technologies, on diverse audiences, including children
Publications
A perspective on the availability of higher education offer in the fields of artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cybersecurity, and data science
An identification of key emerging technologies and their potential impact in education.
written by Marina Escobar-Planas, Vicky Charisi, Isabelle Hupont, Carlos-D Martínez-Hinarejos and Emilia Gómez
Explore the main insights of masters’ programmes for the 2022-23 academic year in the fields of: artificial intelligence, high performance computing, cybersecurity, and data science
This report provides the analysis of multiple indicators related to the development of artificial intelligence from several perspectives.
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.