Towards a Union of Skills: what can regions expect?
After concluding the Year of Skills in April 2024, the European Commission announced the Union of Skills as one of the new initiatives for its first 100 days. This initiative aims to address Europe’s needs for a radical change in ambition and action for all skill levels and for all types of training and education. With the announced Union of Skills, the EU will step up and reorient skills funding in the EU budget to ensure that it is better aligned with labour markets and more focused on sectors crucial for the twin transition.
This meeting will inform the membership about the key aspects of the Union of Skills, which will include on the following aspects:
- embedding lifelong learning in education and careers and supporting teachers’ training and career prospects;
- improving basic skills and a strategic plan for STEM education;
- a proposal for a European strategy for vocational education and training;
- a proposal for the transferability of skills.
Additionally, the event aims to provide insights into the regional dimension in this initiative and the reorientation for the skills funding that is envisaged. The meeting will provide a dialogue with the European Commission, in which members can bring their regional needs to discussion.
The meeting will take place on Wednesday 2 April 10:00-11:30 at the Tegid/Tywi Conference Room, 6th Floor of the Wales House, kindly hosted by the Welsh Higher Education Brussels - Welsh Government, located at 11 Rond-Point Schuman, 1040 Brussels. A detailed agenda will be published closer to the date.
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In 2025, ERRIN will address different perspectives on skills in the activities and workstreams of the Culture and Creativity Cluster:
- 20 May, the EU Design Day: Which skills, technologies, and new approaches for resilient CCIs in a changing world? Today is already Tomorrow!
- Capitalising the CHARTER project's legacy: exploring the establishment of an interregional skills partnership
The topic of skills ERRIN's Working Groups have closely monitoring the topic of skills in the past. You can learn more here:
- Strengthening skills governance in regional innovation ecosystems: lessons learnt and remaining challenges
- Skills forecasting and anticipation from an ecosystem perspective
- The Pact for Skills for CCIs - What next after the Year of Skills?
- Kicking off the European Year of Skills in the ERRIN Network: State of play of the Pact for Skills and its regional dimension
- 02/04/2025 - 10:00 - 02/04/2025 - 11:30
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Wales House = Welsh Higher Education Brussels - Welsh Government Tegid/Tywi Conference Room - 6th floor
Rond-Point Schuman 11
1040 Brussels
Belgium - Astrid Hannes
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Working Group