DWP - Digital Workforce Program

One of the main obstacles for the development of the digital economy in Hungary is the low number of digitally qualified workforce. It has long been necessary to replace not only the missing tens of thousands of IT professionals, but also hundreds of thousands of highly qualified professionals in digital terms. The Digital Success Programme therefore supports the development of the Digital Workforce Program (DWP), which includes short- and medium-term solutions to alleviate the shortage of IT and digitally trained professionals.

The Hungarian government is determined to create more new, high value-added jobs through digitalisation than will be lost by it. To do this, we need to make significant progress in both the approach of businesses and their digital preparedness, as well as in training the digital workforce. In the coming years, the role of Hungarian workers, and especially young people, in the European labourlabourlabour market will be dependingdependingdepending on the role that the Hungarian economy can play in the international competition.

The Hungarian government has responded in a coordinated way: the Digital Workforce Program (DWP) developed by the Ministry of National Economy aims to digitally prepare current employees and the Digital Education Strategy (DES) of Hungary under the DSP aims to digitally prepare students at different levels of the education system.

In the first phase of DWP implementation, the focus will be primarily on short-cycle, non-traditional IT training programs. The goal is to train at least another 20,000 IT professionals within 3 years compared to the existing training system. At the same time, it is essential to increase the capacity and content of traditional training systems and to develop alternative training pathways that provide the digital economy with a workforce with IT and digital skills.

Digital Workforce Program Strategy Document >>>

Elaboration of the situation analysis of the Hungarian digital labourlabourlabour market and the concept of the system for monitoring and forecasting the digital and traditional labour market (summary, ppt)