Date: 20/05/2021

ITPE and CEN/TC428 hosted this event to introduce the core elements of IT professionalism and explore how to to ensure that the IT profession is competent, trusted, and recognised in Europe.

During the event, we discussed:

• What is IT professionalism and why is it important?
• What are the building blocks of IT professionalism?
• What is the role of CEN/TC428 and how it works? What are the outputs of CEN/TC428 work and how to use them in practice?
• How to take part in this work? How to join the larger community working on IT professionalism?
• What is e-CF and how it can be used?

The specific projects being developed on IT professional standards and how they can be used in practice by companies, education and training providers were presented.

You can find the full programme with video recordings and slide presentations below.

Programme

Welcome & introduction

10:00-10:25

• Mary Cleary, CEN/TC 428 – see slides

• Austeja Trinkunaite, IT Professionalism Europe – see slides

Standards for a shared European language in IT professional development: Competence is the key

10:25-10:40

• Jutta Breyer, CEN TC 428 Project Lead & Expert – see slides

Latest TC 428/ EU IT Professionalism achievements

10:40-11:20

• Bringing ETHICS to ICT professionalism: the grounds for a practical framework – see slides
  • Sofia Segkouli, Centre of Research and Technology, Greece
  • Clare Thornley, Clarity Research

• An embedded European standard on ICT Professional Knowledge: ICT BoK – see slides
  • Clare Thornley, Clarity Research

• Preparing the European IT Professional competent workforce of tomorrow: Curriculum Guidance and Assessment Metrics – see slides
  • Wanda Saabeel, independent consultant

• Preparing the European IT Professional competent workforce of tomorrow: Curriculum Guidance and Assessment Metrics (part 2) – see slides
  • Wilfried Berlin, independent consultant

• Apply the e-CF standard across multiple view points and multiple purposes: e-CF User Support – see slides
  • Terry Hook, Clock IT Skills

Interactive session – moderated discussion

Use Cases: e-CF, ICT Profiles and ICT BoK  

11:35-12:55

• Capacity Management in the IT Organisation (Netherlands) – see slides
  • Co Siebes, Capgemini

• Application of the European e-competence framework in curriculum development, the case of the Master of Informatics (Netherlands) – see slides
  • Guido Ongena, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrech

• Public-private stakeholder dialogue (Estonia) – see slides
  • Ants Sild, BCS Koolitus

• The new EU Sector Skills Alliance for Software Skills (ESSA) – see slides
  • Valeria Muggiano, Digital Europe

Closing

12:55-13:00

• Veronica Salsano, CEN/TC 428 – see slides