Skills Agenda for Europe

The European Commission adopted on 10 June a Skills Agenda for Europe.

The Commission has proposed ten measures to be taken forward over the next two years, some of which were launched on 10 June:

• A Skills Guarantee to help low-skilled adults acquire a minimum level of literacy, numeracy and digital skills and progress towards an upper secondary qualification.

• A review of the European Qualifications Framework for a better understanding of qualifications and to make better use of all available skills in the European labour market.

• The “Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition” bringing together Member States and education, employment and industry stakeholders to develop a large digital talent pool and ensure that individuals and the labour force in Europe are equipped with adequate digital skills.

• The ‘Blueprint for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills’ to improve skills intelligence and address skills shortages in specific economic sectors.

Other actions will be launched later this year and in 2017:

• A “Skills Profile Tool for Third Country Nationals” to support early identification and profiling of skills and qualifications of asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants.

• A revision of the Europass Framework, offering people better and easier-to-use tools to present their skills and get useful real-time information on skills needs and trends which can help with career and learning choices.
• Making Vocational Education and Training (VET) a first choice by enhancing opportunities for VET learners to undertake a work based learning experience and promoting greater visibility of good labour market outcomes of VET.

• A review of the Recommendation on Key Competences to help more people acquire the core set of skills necessary to work and live in the 21^st century with a special focus on promoting entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented mind-sets and skills.
  

• An initiative on graduate tracking to improve information on how graduates progress in the labour market.

A proposal to further analyse and exchange best practices on effective ways to address brain drain.

Further information

Commission Memo

Factsheet: Skills in the EU

Country-specific Factsheets

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