

Get the software skills you need! Whether you are a big or small organisation with a demand for skilled software professionals, ESSA helps you to up- and reskill your staff or find new recruits with the right skillset.
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The European Software Skills Strategy is a roadmap to educate people for software jobs. It is based on in-depth market-oriented research and thanks to it, we will develop the next generation educational profiles. This will guide you — and us — to design and deliver the right training programmes.
Download itMeet your peers & the community
Meet your peers and engage with the wider European software community — people who want, together, to answer the current shortage of software skills and professionals on the market.
Join nowUpskill and reskill your staff
The Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes we are creating will equip individuals with the software skills you need — a whole set of hard, soft, and profession-related skills. We also work on accreditation and qualification, and with education and training providers to make it happen.
Coming In 2022See what’s happening

Data Week 23 | Luleå, Sweden | 13 – 15 June
Data Week 2023 is the spring gathering of the European Big Data and Data Driven AI research and…
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DS4Skills launches an Interactive Inventory to showcase skills data initiatives
The DS4Skills interactive inventory, a new online platform, has been launched to provide a…
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DS4Skills developed a methodology for categorisation and assessment of existing initiatives in skills and educational data
Since the DS4Skills kicked off in October 2022, the project consortium has worked on one of the…
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