From Traditional to Digital: The Labour Market Demands and Education Expectations in an EU Context☆

Abstract The world we live in is crossing an era of a digital revolution, which transforms everything and keeping up to these changes is important for every economy. The Internet, the globalization trend, the new ways of working and interacting are raising new challenges. This paper's aim is to provide an overview of the connection between education, the digital environment and the labour market. Our focus will be the strategy of the European Union to minimize the gap between the demand and the offer of the labour market of employees with developed digital competences. Also, we will study how important computer literacy is and how the educational process can be updated to meet the expectations of a growing and constantly changing digital environment. Using data from Eurostat, World Bank, the paper provides a fair analysis of the level of digital competences and their influence on labour market, emphasizing the role of digital education.