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Iscte – Lisbon University Institute is running the UpSkill: Digital Skills & Jobs programme, aimed primarily at young people who have completed the 12th year of schooling and who are unemployed or wish to pursue a career as software developers.
Through this initiative, Iscte and the other organisations involved aim to help tackle unemployment and raise the level of skills among the Portuguese population in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), an area in which Portuguese companies are currently reporting recruitment difficulties.
Through this initiative, Iscte is fulfilling its metropolitan role and demonstrating its ability to respond innovatively to the challenges faced by society, businesses and the public sector.
In addition to Iscte, this partnership involves the Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP), the Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications (APDC) and the Coordinating Council of Higher Polytechnic Institutes (CCISP). The Ministries of Science, Technology and Higher Education, the Economy and Labour are also participating.
Most of the 12 classes run by Iscte in this first phase of UpSkill (around 250 students) will take place at the Startup Sintra premises, whilst the remainder will be held at the university's main campus in Lisbon. The use of the Startup Sintra premises is the result of a partnership with the Sintra Municipal Council.
The IEFP funds this vocational training programme. It is aimed at unemployed people with at least a secondary school education and English language skills who wish to gain qualifications in digital technologies. It comprises an intensive six-month training course covering programming in various languages, cloud platform management, and low-code platform programming.
UpSkill will run further intakes until it has trained and placed more than 3,000 IT professionals in the labour market.
