DIGITAL SME joins ARISA Project to address AI skills shortage in Europe - European DIGITAL SME Alliance

DIGITAL SME continues to lead the way in creating a European AI community and has joined an EU-funded Blueprint project ARISA to support the implementation of the Pact for Skills by developing a sectoral skills strategy on Artificial Intelligence to help EU's ambitious goals of Europe s Digital Decade programme. This project kicks off at a time, when, as according to the DIGITAL SME Secretary-General Sebastiano Toffaletti, "SMEs in Europe are often struggling to find staff that is adequately skilled to work with such technologies as AI. The recent Stanford Report on AI has also shown that 34% of all enteprises acknowledge the that gap in AI skills hinder AI adoption in their companies. This trend will only intensify as the need for the adoption of AI solutions has increased dramatically in the past decade. ARISA is a great opportunity for tackling this challenge by working together in creating a common sectoral skills strategy for AI skills and providing Europeans with tools to upskill."