This domain was the Career Space project, 1999 to 2007
If you followed a citation and landed on a missing page, this is what you were looking for and where it lives now.
What the Career Space project was
Career Space was a consortium convened by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise together with IBM Europe, Nokia Telecommunications, Philips Semiconductors, Thomson CSF, Siemens AG, Microsoft Europe and British Telecommunications. Its subject was the gap between what European ICT employers needed and what graduates arrived with.
Its output was a set of generic job profiles — thirteen when the work was first presented in December 1999 — and guidelines for universities on building curricula against them. The profiles described roles rather than job titles, which is why they were cited for years afterwards by skills reports and university careers services.
The composition of the consortium is taken from: Samarbejde om at tiltrække unge — Ingeniøren, 10 December 1999
What it published
The archived copies of the site hold eighteen profile documents, curriculum development guidelines in English, French, German and Spanish, a combined profiles volume, and papers on the Bologna process and on European employment to 2010. The profile files are listed here under their original names, because those are the names the citations use:
- swarchitect.doc
- swapplic.doc
- sysspec.doc
- digitaldesign.doc
- dsp.doc
- rfengineer.doc
- datacomm.doc
- commnetwork.doc
- integrtest.doc
- techsupp.doc
- productdes.doc
- multmedia.doc
- projectman.doc
- researchtech.doc
- buscons.doc
- marketing.doc
- salesmanag.doc
- manage.doc
Alongside them the site ran a section of interviews with people working in these roles, a consultation record, and a jargon buster. None of that material is ours and none of it is reproduced here.
Where the material is now
The project closed and the domain later changed hands more than once. The documents themselves are not lost: the Internet Archive holds crawls of the site from 2000 onwards, including the download section and the profile files. That is the right place to look for anything you were citing.
What this site is now
The domain now carries a reference site about working in Europe: what salary a work permit requires in each country, what the published thresholds do and do not include, and what the tax regimes for incoming workers actually say. Every figure carries its official source and the date it was checked. The subject is narrower than the consortium's, and it is a different kind of work — but it is aimed at the same question of what it takes to build a career across European borders.
We are not connected to the Career Space consortium, we do not speak for it, and nothing here is endorsed by it or by the European Commission. This page exists because a dead link is a worse answer than an honest one.
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