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Policy Brief: Digital Skills Agenda

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Programmes Digital Europe Advanced Digital Skills

The European Skills Agenda is a five-year plan to help individuals and businesses develop more and better skills, and to put them to use. It builds on actions set in the EU Skills Agenda (2016) and is linked to the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030, and to the European Industrial Strategy when it comes to the availability of digital skills for the EU industry, mainly SMEs. The European Skills Agenda is formed of four building blocks (join forces, right skills for jobs, tools to support people in live long learning and unlock investments in skills) covering twelve specific actions.

Knowledge of underlying EU policies and legislations is a key element in Digital Europe proposals as they play an important role in the “relevance” evaluation criterion. This Policy Briefing is one of several briefings prepared by DEP4ALL, the NCP Network for the Digital Europe programme, to support applicants with summaries of relevant EU initiatives.

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The RUSTICA project obtained funding under Horizon 2020, more in particular under the topic ‘Closing nutrient cycles’.  RUSTICA focuses on demonstration and implementation of circular bio-based nutrient valorisation chains, focusing on waste from the fruit and vegetable agro-food system. The project kicked off in 2021 and will run until 2024. It will use a strong multi-actor approach to co-create both socio-economic and technological knowledge in four case study regions in Europe and one in Colombia. The Flanders-based company DRANCO is one of the project partners and acts as technical project manager for the entire project. DRANCO participates in the project to develop its own technologies, to network and to help make the transition to a more circular based economy.