"Changing skills for a changing world: Understanding skills demand in EU neighbouring countries" report is out on the ETF's website, and it is available at the following link: https://www.etf.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/publications/changing-skills-changing-world-understanding-skills-demand
This collection of articles aims to understand better the evolution of skills demands in the labour markets of transition and developing countries. The world is facing a profound period of changes, driven by digitalisation, technological advance, increased global connections, climate change and demographic phenomenon. Economies, labour markets and societies will all be transformed. Thus, new skills will be needed to adapt to these new realities and governments around the world need to ensure that all their citizens are equipped with those specific skills. The report focuses on countries neighbouring the EU and tries to highlight and foresee what skills will be required to create more inclusive, greener, and prosperous societies.
The report is divided into three parts. Part one gives an overview of existing researches on the future of work and skills at the global level and the recent economic and labour transformations observed in European neighbourhood countries. Part two groups together articles covering changes in occupations, sectors and employment patterns in some of ETF's partner countries. Part three focuses on changing demand in different skills sets and qualification across several neighbouring countries.
The report is the outcome of collaborations between the ETF's Skills Lab and researchers and experts from various partner countries. The Skills Lab supports the systematic generation of targeted skills intelligence for companies, economies and individuals by focusing on skills for the labour market, skills identification and anticipation.
The ETF has the intention to launch a new initiative, the "Network of Experts ", which aims to connect the research community from ETF's partner countries. Through this network, the ETF wants to start a process of knowledge co-creation and sharing, mutual learning and dissemination to enrich the understanding of its partner's countries realities, especially in the field of human capital development. Cooperation and participation will be two of the Network of Experts' main driving forces, aiming to create a long-term partnership between the ETF and these experts and among the experts themselves.
"Changing skills for a changing world: Understanding skills demand in EU neighbouring countries" was created thanks to experts and researchers' contribution from different partner countries. Thus, the report can represent an excellent preview of the types of works, reports, analysis, documents, and articles that the Skills Lab will likely produce thanks to its Network of Experts. Other works have already been published thanks to the collaboration between international and local experts and the ETF. Those are, for example, the "Future of Work" series, which analyse how the labour market is evolving in different countries and sectors (e.g. the agri-tech sector in Israel, the energy sector in Albania, the automotive industry in Turkey, the agri-business sector in Morocco), or the "Future of Youth" series, which focuses on youth employment and social inclusion in specific regions (e.g. SEET and SEMED), as well as many other country-specific reports (e.g. "Skills demand and supply in Northern Macedonia"; "Skills for smart specialisation in Montenegro").
The creation and strengthening of connections with partner countries and their experts are fundamental to ETF's work. Those links allow the ETF to enrich the monitoring, analysis and understanding of its partner countries, progress in skills and labour market evaluation and build confidence and trust with local institutions. This process will allow the ETF and its partners to create more robust and more targeted partnerships and move to real collaboration for knowledge creation and management. ETF's present and future connections are likely to play a crucial role in the ETF's objective to become a knowledge hub for the EU and its partner countries on human capital development.
Thanks 2955 for this comment! Working with others in a more systematic way and tapping into the existing knowledge in ETF Partner Countries is indeed one of the key elements of the new ETF 2027 Strategy.
This publication shows the variety of research going on in countries, with the intention to give value to knowledge and stimulate a debate with stakeholders and international partners.
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