Abstract
The study is the first attempt to systematically gather information about what is happening in research and education in the ICT field in the Baltic countries and Northwest Russia, so it is mostly a general investigation and fact-finding project, leading to possible future research and activities in the field. The study will estimate how well the supply of eSkills, that is, educated ICT graduates, meets the requirements of the ICT industry and the needs of the market in Northwest Russia, Kaliningrad, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The main objective of this study can be divided into three tasks: • Surveying educational organisations providing ICT education and training in the region. The main technical universities, high schools and other public and private institutions, as well as research centres, will be examined with the goal of charting what specialists are being produced and what research is being carried out in the universities and research institutions of the region. • Identifying the market needs for ICT competence with the focus on the ICT industry and SMEs. • Highlighting discrepancies between the supply of ICT educated graduates and the demand of the digital economy.
Highlights
The purpose of the study is to investigate the opportunities for future co-operation in the Northern region in the field of ICT research and education
The focus of the eSkills part is on ICT higher education and the demand for ICT specialists in the knowledge-based economy
The Baltic Sea region represents an interesting area in the field of ICT education and research
Summary
The purpose of the study is to investigate the opportunities for future co-operation in the Northern region in the field of ICT research and education. One of the central aims of the study is to identify preconditions for this co-operation and ascertain what collaboration would at first be reasonable. The focus of the eSkills part is on ICT higher education and the demand for ICT specialists in the knowledge-based economy. It comprises only one rather narrow part of a wider area of eSkills, which consists of many different levels of skills and groups of. E. Kurilovas people, that is, from the general level of computer literacy of citizens to the specific skills of ICT professionals
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