Only 8% of the employed in our country have above average digital skills and only 30% have basic digital skills. And the implementation of high technologies in medium and small enterprises reaches 25 percent or half of the average share for the European Union, reports the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce.
A conference of the Chamber of Commerce is looking for solutions to these problems, with the participation of employers, trade unionists, representatives of the Ministry of Social Affairs and non-governmental organizations.
The labor market needs an unprecedented change of skills and competence in the workplace, said Tomcho Tomov from the Chamber of Commerce.
At the same time, a study by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences shows that most of the employed would not participate in training if it did not lead to increased wages.
And the lower the position, the less likely they are to participate in digital skills training. This leads to the danger of digital marginalization of the population, warned Deputy Minister of Social Affairs Natalia Efremova.
“We are talking about relegation, about excluding a large part of the population from the socio-economic life. We have quite a serious financial resource. I would say unprecedented, which the state has never had before in terms of training for adults, in particular digital skills – over 1 “Bulgaria has invested 6 billion euros of all funds in the National Recovery and Sustainability Plan,” she said.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Policy is implementing an investment of BGN 380 million for the digital training of 500,000 persons by the end of 2026, and 200,000 of them will be trained by the middle of next year.
2023-06-05 18:06:00
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