Over the last four years, the number of apprentices in the French civil service has almost doubled. New measures will be introduced in early 2022 to keep up this momentum. An annual €500 bonus will be allocated to apprenticeship managers and it will become easier to access established employment status – initially – by tailoring the oral tests of competitive examinations to better factor in the experience acquired.

After having been introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the online induction course has been a resounding success with the interested parties and is set to be mainstreamed. The course was drawn up by the British Government Campus’s training unit using the FutureLearn digital platform and has benefitted from including individual and team stories. It provides new staff with informal knowledge to help them adapt to their new working environment.

Digital skills are being organised as they have become prerequisites for implementation of many transformation projects. The Spanish government has unveiled its framework which covers six areas: appropriation and information, communication and collaboration, content creation, security, problem solving and innovation. Each area has three levels (basic, intermediate and advanced).