Following our call for proposals launched in December 2022, we are delighted to announce that seven research projects have been selected by the ETF for further development and publication.
The first project aims to identify the education-job mismatch in Kyrgyzstan and South Africa by assessing the extent to which text mining analysis of job vacancies and course descriptions of universities can be undertaken to reveal skill mismatches.
The second project aims to understand to what extent the sectoral Human Capital Study, a methodology for measuring skills mismatch developed in Poland, can be implemented on an international level. This will take place by exchanging experiences between Poland and the UK and assessing the feasibility of implementing the methodology used in a study of competency needs in a selected sector in Türkiye.
A third project aims to expand upon the ETF's recent case studies on the future skill needs in the energy sector of Albania, Tunisia, and Egypt, where new emerging technologies and interdisciplinary occupations towards facilitating the sector's transformation were identified. The research will explore potential correlations and cross-cutting issues that can be compared across case studies.
The fourth project, Bringing Western Balkan Agri-Food sector ‘Out of the Sustainability and Digital Void, aims to create a matchmaking platform in the areas of digital agriculture, biochemical and microbial products and value-added organic products in the WB region.
The fifth project, Green economy: Potential jobs, skills needs and skills gaps. Evidence from Lebanon and Tunisia aims to shed light on the realities of the green economy, the opportunities, the nature of the different jobs and the skills needed, while taking into consideration the characteristics of regions and sectors in both countries.
The sixth project, Measuring the Skills Gap for Youth Digital-Social Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: A Case Study of Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia, seeks to explore the key skills gaps identified by young digital-social entrepreneurs and determine the provision of support required to combat this gap and provide young nascent digital-social entrepreneurs with the skills they need to build their own impact-driven digital businesses.
Finally, Transition to work, skill mismatch and skill gaps in North Africa and the Western Balkans aims to identify the barriers to skilled employment in the transition from higher education institutions to work in North Africa and the Western Balkans, and the skills gaps and skills mismatches between the demand and supply of university graduates with given levels and types of qualifications.
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