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IT talent acquisition

Spain · Logroño · Local · See the Spain profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 54% 72/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

This project began several years ago but its objectives have now widened and included as a strategic part of the digital agenda of our region. We also widely collaborate with the national government in training IT professionals and training digital skills to other economic sector

87 companies

Associated companies in the AERTIC business group

Details

Promoter: Aertic — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems
People reached: 89
Period: 2017-06-30
Region (NUTS): ES23
Keywords: digital skills, IT sector, unemployed, digital agenda

Context

AERTIC, the IT business cluster of La Rioja, Spain, runs a regional IT talent-acquisition initiative since around 2017 with the regional government and education centres, working simultaneously on student vocations, academy-business-government collaboration, and continuous digital-skills training for workers across sectors.

Activities

Activities include entrepreneur-led school events and gender-focused initiatives like IT Girls Day to raise IT vocations, joint design of new vocational studies with education centres, and worker upskilling delivered with the National Centre for New Technologies Training.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 54% in this catalogue (799 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. IT talent acquisition. Persistent ID: 7214dfee-12e0-4ecb-971c-1e5fdc152d90.

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