Train 1 million young unemployed people for vacant digital jobs through internships/traineeships, apprenticeships and short-term training programmes. Support the upskilling and retraining of the workforce and in particular take concrete measures to support SMEs who face specific challenges in attracting and retaining digital talent as well as retraining their workforce. Modernise education and training to provide all students and teachers with the opportunity to use digital tools and materials in their teaching and learning activities and to develop and upgrade their digital skills. Reorient and make use of available funding to support d ...[+++]igital skills and carry out awareness-raising about the importance of digital skills for employability, competitiveness and participation in society.

14. Welcomes the Commission's undertaking to adopt a strong proposal on online contracts covering digital content purchased online and to improve consumers' legal protection in this sphere; believes that any such improvements must be targeted and that differences between content, on the one hand, and tangible goods on the other should be carefully analysed; points out that while consumers who buy content on a tangible medium are protected by consumer protection laws, consumer rights when buying digital content online remain largely unregulated and unclear, particularly with regard to legal guarantees, defective content and specific unf ...[+++]air terms regarding digital content; highlights that the current classification of all digital content as services may raise concerns, as it may not conform to consumer expectations, since streaming service subscriptions are not distinguished from downloadable content purchases; agrees that consumers should enjoy an equivalent and future-proof level of protection regardless of whether they purchase digital content online or offline;

33. Stresses that, in order to achieve a true Digital Single Market in Europe, and to enable citizens – including vulnerable people – to make full use of new digital technologies, further efforts to improve media literacy are needed; encourages, therefore, the Member States to recognise the importance of media education, to integrate the acquisition of digital skills into school curricula and to improve the necessary technical equipment; underlines, in this context, the importance of proper training for teachers on digital skills, on the way to teach these skills efficiently, and on how to use them to support the learning process in ge ...[+++]neral;

34. Stresses that the ability to use media independently and critically represents a lifelong learning task across generations, which is subject to constant change, in parallel with the development of the media and understood as a key qualification; stresses that the adaptation of education and training systems is vital to improve the level of ICT professionalism in Europe and to meet the increasing demand for digitally skilled professionals in the EU; encourages, in this regard, the Commission and the Member States to create the basis for mutual recognition of digital skills and qualifications by setting up a European certificate or grading system, following the example of the European common framework of reference for language learning ...[+++]and teaching; stresses that further efforts are needed in the field of improving media literacy among citizens, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote media literacy for all EU citizens, in particular vulnerable people, through initiatives and coordinated actions; suggests that internet literacy be added permanently to the scope of efforts to increase media literacy;

8. Emphasises that further digital improvements and further modernisation of public sectors in Member States must take into account the essential needs of ordinary citizens, especially those in the most vulnerable positions, such as the young, the uneducated, the disabled and those without internet access, in order to guarantee all EU citizens equal access to a high-quality public service;

15. Stresses the need to improve media and digital literacy skills, in particular among children and minors, in order to achieve a true digital single market and to realise the growth potential of this dynamic sector; notes in particular the importance of addressing the expected gap in the supply of ICT professionals; welcomes the ‘Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs’ and highlights the importance of matching ICT training to business requirements;