Tools « Telecentre Europe

Become TE’s national Microsoft Technology Associate partner!

Telecentre-Europe invites its member organizations to become the national partner for distributing a total of 2.000 donated vouchers for young people to take a free Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certification exam.

Let’s help our unemployed youth to fill one of those 800.000 ICT practitioners’ vacancies expected to remain unfilled by 2015!

Microsoft has donated Telecentre-Europe free exam vouchers & learning resources (for a total estimated value of 70€) redeemable for the MTA certification exam.

MTA is an entry-level certification that helps people to explore ICT as a career choice and validates essential technology knowledge (based on Microsoft products), needed to start building a career in Microsoft technologies. It is excellent for those who want to be better prepared for the ICT job market – or even for those who are curious, but not decided yet on a career in technology.

MTA certification for young people aspiring to a career in IT

Telecentre-Europe has partnered with Microsoft and Certiport to help young people achieve their dream of a career in IT.

Microsoft offered Telecentre-Europe up to 2000 donated vouchers, redeemable for a Microsoft Technology Associate (“MTA”) Certification exam to be distributed across Europe to young peopele who are aspiring to start a career in ICT.

These donated exam vouchers & learning resources will help young people who typically face barriers in pursuing a career in IT, to explore further ICT as a career choice, to earn an entry-level Microsoft Certification and be better prepared for the ICT job market.

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Infographic on the state of digital inclusion in Europe

During the Get Online Week campaign (26-30 March 2012), telecentres reached 200.000 Europeans. But “Why a Get Online campaign? – Isn’t everybody online yet in Europe?”

Well, they aren’t. Eurostat information society statistics show more than 120 million offliners in the EU and 200 million throughout the whole European continent. The ones that are still offline, are those who are either most isolated from access and knowledge, or most resistant to the new technologies and lifestyle.

To understand better these statistics, WeAreWhatWeDo, in collaboration with Telecentre- Europe and funded by Liberty Global, developed a brand new infographic of the state of digital inclusion in Europe:

Young europeans 60% ready to be hired for increasingly ICT-focused jobs

In Skillage: Are you ready to get hired? Deputy Chair Ian Clifford describes how Telecentre-Europe took up the opportunity of Get Online Week 2012 to create Skillage – multi-translated tool that helps assess the ICT for employability skills of young people across Europe.

The first results are in and there were more than 9.000 uses during Get Online Week, and around 500 each week since. The average score is at around 60% at the moment.

Although some might even disagree with the suggested answer, there are often no absolute answers in preparing for the modern ICT-focused job market. It’s often shades of grey. Skillage questions are deliberately chosen to prompt young people to think about the topic a little more, to ask themselves if they really know everything they need to get or keep a job in 2012.

So Skillage is indeed a tool: it’s partly assessment, partly learning through self-questioning. It helps young people to see what they need to brush up on, and where they can go to get that help.

» Read the full blogpost on Microsoft Europe’s website

Telecentre-Europe is developing the youth assessment tool “Skillage”

Telecentre-Europe, with support from Microsoft, is developing Skillage – an online software application that helps young people to understand the more sophisticated ICT skills they need for the job market in 2012.

The tool is aimed at young people 16-24 in Europe. It will test and inform the users of their ICT readiness for employment. Through a series of 15 questions Skillage will challenge the user to understand the areas they could improve upon, and the learning venues where they can get support to do so. Skillage will be launched before Get Online Week 2012, and promoted by telecentres involved in the campaign.

Key Competences for All

Key Competences for All brings new benefits to the European telecentres and their customers, by providing an employability toolkit that is especially designed for telecentre use.

In the spring of 2009 an informal partnership formed under the auspices of Telecentre‐Europe, submitted an application to the EC (Grundtvig) to create an “Employability Toolkit” which was successful and selected for funding.