33 persons employed in ICT sector and co-financing of public sector allow reducing issues of the labour market and gaining a competitive business environment. Required Actions The education sector should improve building and systematic development of student information, career counselling and motivation activities of ICT career guidance: ICT career days, Informatics contests, summer camps, interest groups on social networks. Steps must be taken in order to promote the training of young people starting to work in their first job, providing acquisition of practical skills in the modern technologies. Increase the number of students in the universities’ ICT professional programmes and adequacy of the acquired education to the requirements of employers (including preparation of ICT security specialists) in order to reduce the burden on employers to train new employees. The development of new ICT-related occupational standards should be facilitated and special measures for the training of young people for potential employers should be envisaged (internship, summer schools, etc.). Support programmes for training of employees for the improvement of competitiveness of ICT companies should be continued. Special support should be provided for the training related to the latest technologies, good practice and frameworks of basic activities, ICT infrastructure and project management processes. The introduction of new forms of training, which is based on the training approach to carry out practical actions, should be emphasised in the education of ICT professionals. Encourage and facilitate the lecturer and students (group of up to five students) jointly developed projects, for which final results are introduced or made publicly available. ICT companies have to create opportunities and offer placements in order to promote and provide opportunities for young ICT professionals to integrate into the labour market. 5.1.5 Promoting the Proportion of Algorithmic Thinking and Information Literacy in Educational Programmes With the development of ICT, range of information available for public, is growing rapidly on daily basis, and in this situation public information literacy becomes particularly important – skills to find, assess, process, use, synthesise information, be competent in enormous amount of information resource and information processing tools. On the other hand, the higher information literacy level each member of the society has, the greater the contribution the individual is able to give to the country’s economic development. Information literacy in the information society cannot be over-emphasised – to acquire knowledge and effectively work in the information environment, an individual must be able to find sources of information and find there the necessary information, to evaluate the information resources and the reliability of the information found, quality and relevance of information needs, and use the information found in order to build new competences. Information literacy issues are important for public and individuals not only in the active period of study and work, but also in a lifelong education perspective. information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines 2014-2020