Overview
Lobbying Costs
150,000€
Financial year: Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
4
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
ECDL Foundation
EU Transparency Register
44018642457-83 First registered on 07 Oct 2009
Goals / Remit
ECDL Foundation's mission is to enable proficient use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that empowers individuals, organisations and society, through the development, promotion, and delivery of quality certification programmes throughout the world.
Main EU files targeted
ECDL Foundation is interested in policies and initiatives that support the development of digital skills in Europe, for e.g. the Digital Single Market, the New Skills Agenda for Europe, Education and Training 2020 (ET2020), Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition among others
Address
Head Office
The Grange Offices
Stillorgan Road
Dublin A94 H2K7
IRELANDEU Office
Avenue Roger Vandendriessche 18
Brussels 1150
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 04 Dec 2024
Name Start date End Date Mr Jakub CHRISTOPH 12 Jan 2019 11 Jan 2020 Mr Thomas Jake SCOTT-REDFORD 12 Jan 2019 11 Jan 2020 Mr Jakub CHRISTOPH 12 Dec 2017 09 Dec 2018 Mr Thomas Jake SCOTT-REDFORD 25 Nov 2017 24 Nov 2018 Ms Austeja Trinkunaite 05 May 2017 23 Nov 2017 Ms Austeja Trinkunaite 17 Mar 2016 16 Mar 2017 Mr THOMAS REDFORD 29 Sep 2015 25 Sep 2016 Ms Austeja Trinkunaite 10 Apr 2015 17 Mar 2016 Ms Fiona Fanning 10 Apr 2015 08 Apr 2016 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Austeja Trinkunaite (Policy Manager)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Damien O' Sullivan (CEO)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
ECDL Foundation is a member:
European e-Skills Association
Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition Governing BoardMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
150,000€
Other financial info
ECDL Foundation operations are financed by its own revenue.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
ECDL Foundation supports and participates as pledger in the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. ECDL Foundation also supports European Vocational Skills Week, Safer Internet Day, and European Cyber Security Month.
Other activities
ECDL Foundation advocates for the importance of digital literacy for all irrespective of age, gender and location.
ECDL Foundation's values are:
Social Responsibility: as a not-for-profit organisation, we are committed to improving digital skills proficiency within society. Our certification programmes are designed to be accessible to all citizens, irrespective of age, gender, status, ability or race.
Vendor Independence: our certification programmes give candidates the flexibility and freedom to acquire digital skills and confidently apply them in any software environment that they may be required to use.
Quality: we strive for continuous improvements in all that we do and ensure that our programmes are implemented to consistent standards internationally.
The Foundation believes that all national reforms introducing IT infrastructure or services in government and society should be supplemented by investment in people to ensure that the Europe has the skills necessary to benefit from technology.
Furthermore, the Foundation believes that allocated EU funding for education, training and human capital development should support initiatives and projects for IT training and certification as an objective measure of return on investment.
ECDL Foundation’s certification programmes are vendor neutral. This means that our programmes are not tied to any one brand of software and are designed to enable people to gain skills that can be used in any appropriate software environment.
Meetings
Meetings
4 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 14 Jul 2016 Location Brussels Subject Digital Skills Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet member)
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Date 13 May 2016 Location Brussels Subject Digital Skills Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet member)
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Date 09 Jan 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Education and ICT Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Portfolio Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Attending - Rodrigo Ballester (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Dec 2014 Location Brussels Subject e-Skills, digital competencies, ICT and women, coding Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip Portfolio Digital Single Market Attending - Jasmin Battista (Cabinet member)
- Hanna Hinrikus (Cabinet member)
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