Digital Skills Needs and Opportunities – Montenegro

• October 13, 2023
• Andrew

This document presents the main findings of the Research on the Current Offer and Needs of the Market in Relation to Digital Skills, aimed at identifying the gaps, emerging needs and opportunities for action to improve both the supply and demand sides of digital skills. This would ultimately support the efficient development of a modern labour market able to respond and maintain competitiveness on all fronts and to face all emerging trends.

The analysis is based on the two primary digital competence frameworks established by the European Commission’s EU DIGCOMP 2.0 and The European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens. An integrated and inclusive approach to the overall project was taken with the aim not only of addressing and analysing digital and ICT skills from different perspectives, ranging from the systems of formal education to development of digital skills and their integration in the labour market, but also of determining an institutional and regulatory framework for future development and more efficient integration of digital skills in the Montenegrin labour market.

Thus, this report provides not only an overview of the current level of digital skills of the workforce, but also a map of the potential areas for further action that can be taken at all levels, all of which rely on mutual cooperation of relevant stakeholders in all segments of society, such as public institutions, the business sector, education providers, civil society and individual responsibilities in this process.