New Skills for New Europeans – Immigrant Women Realizing Potential Women now account for over half of Europe’s immigrants. They face many challenges including higher unemployment and are often clustered in... Read more >>

CeBIT 2010: Chancellor Merkel and Prime Minister Zapatero visiting the Microsoft’s Digital Classroom CeBIT 2010 opened its doors yesterday, March 2nd. This year’s theme of the most important fair for the IT business is “connected world”. Read more >>

CeBiT puts eSkills in the spotlight We can no longer afford to discard skills and human capital if we want to meet the challenges of a knowledge-based society and to maintain European... Read more >>

Advertorial: The Digital Wake-up Call, European e-Skills Week This is an advertorial that we have produced recently with the European Commission in support of the European e-Skills Week (1-5 March 2010). Read more >>

A Financial Times column: e-Skills make it into the boardroom Have a look at Ade McCormack’s recent Financial Times column, which highlights the importance of e-skills to our future, the role of management within... Read more >>

Interview: Working with Microsoft, a view from an Italian partner I recently had the chance to speak to one of our Students to Business partners, Roberto Pietra, who is VP of HR at the tech services firm, Avanade. Read more >>

Video blog: e-skills and the future of Europe The competitiveness challenge is one which will decide the future of Europe, and given the nature of globalisation, we as a continent need to get... Read more >>

Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems while creating new opportunities for innovative jobs… Every year, Microsoft runs the Imagine Cup, a global technology competition for students to develop their IT skills while at the same time making a... Read more >>

The mantra for Europe – academic/business footprint Forward-looking perspectives from INSEAD’s recent conference  ‘Building e-Competences to Strengthen Innovation in Europe’  and the European... Read more >>

Chairman of Microsoft Europe: Unlocking human potential Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman of Microsoft Europe, on unlocking human potential through inspiring creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship; and improving... Read more >>

A programmer’s progress: Michał Moskal’s journey How a student from Wrocław became an expert in software verification – via Aachen and Redmond. Read more >>

Films inspire researcher’s work on futuristic computer displays As a teenager in 1990s war-torn Kosovo, Alban Rrustemi loved a good crime film – especially one with computing gadgets. Read more >>

Child Online Safety The internet offers Europe’s children tremendous educational and social benefits, but may also expose them to harm. We therefore help raising... Read more >>