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Recent EU study explores use of big data from social media to provide realtime information on migration in the EU.

Do you know that the first training course on “Skills and Migration” was co-designed and co-delivered by the ETF and ITC-ILO together on 2-6 September 2019 at the ILO campus? As a result of positive feedback and high interest on the topic, the training course will be repeated again next year on 29 June-3 July 2020 in the ILO campus. #migration

New Call under Erasmus + on policy experimentation.

KA 3 Call - policy experimentation (2019/C 410/06): Digital education & competences; Teaching & teachers in schools or VET sector (IVET and CVET)

The projects should focus on one of the following thematic priorities:

1.digital education and competences, or
2.teaching and teachers in schools or VET sector (IVET and CVET), or
3.funding mechanisms for upskilling and reskilling, including schemes similar to Individual Learning Accounts, or

We know that “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” was adopted in the UN General Assembly in 2018. You can access to the full text at https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/73/195
This is a non-binding resolution which was accepted by 152 countries in total. There were 5 countries voted against (USA, PL, CZ, HU, IL) and 12 countries abstained in the voting (incl. IT, AU, AUS, AZ, EGY, ROM, BUL, CH).

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Do you know that International Organization for Migration (IOM) has “Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC)” in Berlin? All migration-related data are found at the Global Migration Data Portal, www.migrationdataportal.org

You will see at the link below the IOM’s publication “Global Migration Indicators 2018” which was based on the insights from this portal: https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/global_migration_indicato…. It gives a very synthesised information...

For a long time now, ETF has been advocating the skills dimension of migration in political agendas, and the importance of knowing and using the education levels, skills and professions of migrants. Being an EU agency for human capital development in the neighbourhood, we look at migration from ‘human capital perspective’, which requires thinking and combining migration, local labour markets and skills all together for a deeper reflection at the European level.

The most recent initiative...