Network Europe Workgroup on Social Ethics and Corporate Digital Responsibility (NEWS)

Nov 6, 2025
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Updated: Jun 17

Start date 01-01-2025–End date 30-06-2026

EU Grant–60.000,00 €

Programme–Erasmus+

Key Action:

Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices

Action Type:

Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training

Countries covered–4

Coordinator

Irish Work Study Institute Ltd

🇮🇪 Ireland

Summary

Objectives

The objective of the NEWS project is to collaborate with consortium partners and their member organisations to identify their training needs in relation to rapid digitisation and AI integration. The results of this analysis will be mapped to the existing training programs of partner organisations, enabling them to adapt their offerings to current labour market demands - NEWS will also produce policy guidelines flexible deployment of CPD within the organisation.

Activities

The NEWS project will survey a minimum of 100 organisations across the four regions to ascertain their training needs regarding rapid digitisation and the use of AI within the organisation. The results of the survey will be mapped to the current training programmes of the partner organisations and a joint updated catalogue will be established. NEWS will also produce policy guidelines on the effective deployment of these programmes within the organisation.

Impact

The NEWS project will produce a Survey Report of Training Needs based on the >100 organisations survey, a joint catalogue of training programmes that are relevant to current market requirements, a policy document describing how training programmes regarding digitisation and use of AI can be deployed effectively within the organisation and a cooperation structure for new organisations to join in and contribute to the NEWS training network.

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