Designing a Strategic Framework for European Computing Education and Training

In this paper we summarize our research concerning the design of a long-term, large-scale strategic framework for European computing education and training programmes. Our conceptualization of the strategic framework for European ICT education is based on business process management (BPM) perspective, which is the key for defining a generic strategic framework. With this starting point, we review in this paper the generic strategic framework structure and discuss the design of the identified components from the perspectives of the European ICT education and European ICT job markets. The presented design focuses, among others, on the strategic goals, the priority areas, on convergence monitoring etc. We also present a new addition to the envisioned framework concerning standard ICT curricula adoption which enhances our original approach presented in (Porta, 2016a). It is important to note that, to date, there has been no attempt to provide a strategic framework for the area of computing education (the closest realisation has been the Strategic Framework for European Cooperation in Education and Training (EU-SF, 2009; EU-SF, 2012), which however covers different application areas and problem sets). Since the topic of designing and implementing a strategic framework for ICT is quite extensive, we focus in this paper on the preparation and design phases, and leave the implementation description to our future publication.