Following the announcement by President Ursula von der Leyen in her last State of the Union speech, 2023 is the European Year of Skills. The main objective of this year is to help companies, in particular small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to address skills shortages in the EU. As the European Commission highlights, having a workforce with the skills that are in demand contributes to sustainable growth, leads to more innovation and improves companies’ competitiveness.
In the current world, characterized by concern for the environment and the digital revolution of the industry impacting all economic sectors, the twin transition (green and digital) opens unprecedented opportunities for people and the EU economy. DATAMITE, well aware of the need to improve society digital skills will contribute to upskill on technical and business aspects thanks to the multiple open-source training materials the project will generate.
The Digital Economy and Society Index shows that 4 out of 10 adults and every third person who works in Europe lack basic digital skills. This represents a huge loss of workforce and therefore a loss for the European economy. The European Year of Skills is part of the Europe’ Digital Decade (2020 – 2030) and the 2030 Digital Compass, which targets of at least 80% of adults with basic digital skills and 20 million employed ICT specialists in the EU. DATAMITE has as its core to improve users digital skills to facilitate the monetisation of the European enterprises and public administrations’ data.
DATAMITE delivers a modular, open-source and multi-domain Framework, to improve Data Monetizing, Interoperability, Trading and Exchange, in the form of software modules, training and business materials for European companies, empowering them to become new relevant players in the data economy. According to the 2030 Digital Compass, 75% of EU companies should use Cloud, AI, and/or Big Data by the end of the decade. DATAMITE’s framework is designed to overcome these challenges helping the European companies to unleash the monetization potential of their data by developing a set of key modules:
- Data Governance.
- Quality.
- Security.
- Sharing.
- Supporting Tools.
DATAMITE will contribute to improve European digital skills and the European high-tech business potential by unleashing the monetisation potential of Big Data at two levels: internal and external. At an internal level, users have tools to improve the quality management of their data, the adherence to FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles, and can upskill on technical and business aspects.
At an external level, keeping users in control of their data provides new sources of revenue and interaction with other stakeholders. In addition, the architecture envisioned for DATAMITE enables DIHs sandboxing, becoming a potential instructor on their onboarding of SMEs and low-tech SMEs into the data economy.
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