To build any profession it is essential to understand the core areas of expertise required by different roles. Organisations may then be able to recruit and develop suitable employees, and maintain appropriate levels of competences through continuous professional development. The e-CF was developed to provide a reference of competences that apply to the ICT workplace.

Date: Tuesday 16th May 2017 Time: 9:00pm Place: MITA Data Centre Santa Venera The eSkills Malta Foundation will be organising an interesting event on the subject of Software Testing on 16th May 2017 at the MITA Data Centre Sta Venera. We believe that robust software development cannot do without the proper software testing, and its corresponding methods, skills, and engineering.

Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way. The eSkills Malta Foundation is once again coordinating the EU Code Week initiatives. This year Code Week will be held between the 6th and 21st October 2018. As most of you are aware last year Malta ranked first in the number of coding events held per capita.

Cybersecurity has become one of the prominent subjects of this technology era, and this is bound to become more important as we increase our activities in the areas of AI, machine learning, the blockchain and DLT, Internet of Things (IoT), Quantum Computing and other prominent technologies.  It is therefore essential that we give Cybersecurity the importance it deserves.

ICT skills are amongst the most essential skills for new jobs, digitally enabled industries outperform their traditional competitors; by 2020 90% of all jobs will be expected to require some form of digital skills. Encouraging the younger generation to realise that the right digital skills are amongst the most important core skills for employability is a crucial step in addressing the broad challenge of additional skilled resources for 21st century jobs.

eSkills Malta Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry for Education and Employment organised a half-day event on Digital education in schools on Friday 15th March at the MITA Data Centre, Santa Venera. Everyone now accepts that people from all walks of life will increasingly need digital skills and knowledge. This is because digital technology will be used not only by children or employees at the workplace, but practically everybody, including women at home.

The Malta Robotics Olympiad (MRO) is the largest robotics and technology event in Malta. In 2018 we will be celebrating the 7th edition of this annual event which is organised by the Ministry for Education and Employment under the Management of the MRO Committee made up from: James Catania (chairman), Keith Galea, Keith Aquilina, Josmar Borg , Karen Micallef, & Eric Montfort.