The ongoing digital evolution is impacting every sector of our society, changing work requirements, people’s mindsets as well as behavioural and social attitudes, creating both significant opportunities and threats that need to be managed and guided properly.
If we refer specifically to the new emerging technologies, it is largely recognized the need to strategically drive them, indeed the EC has created policy and actions to support it.
Among EU Policy for HEIs, there is: encouraging creativity, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit at all training and education levels.
In a near future, there will be a strong demand for Digital Creative Abilities which include both digital skills (for instance, information skills, programming and app development) along with human skills (for instance, problem solving, strategic and creative thinking, emotional intelligence, relationship and network building abilities). Their development allows managing the digital transition achieving a Digital Maturity that means enabling people to continuously adapt to a changing digital landscape, learning how to collaborate with digital technologies and how to use them to serve the human needs in any field.

Marita Canina, Carmen Bruno, Daniela Amandolese, Valentina Vezzani, Anne-Claire Legrand, Christophe Gravier, Céline Duillon, David Delafosse, Diva Velosa, André Nobrega

Universidade de Madeira, Télécom Saint-Étienne, Institut Mines-Télécom, Startup Madeira