At this
event Cedefop will present its new European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey and
discuss results from its overall research agenda on skill mismatch.
The aim of
the conference is to stimulate discussion and identify key policy priorities,
challenges, and applicable solutions to the problem of skill mismatch, with
particular emphasis on the role of public-private partnerships and of
supportive public policies. Experts in skills and skill mismatch, along with
representatives of governments, social partners, education and training, and
the labour market will engage in a series of discussions structured around two
key thematic pillars:
- Challenges for VET and skills: Impact of technology and workplace change on skill needs
- Fostering partnerships: rising up to the challenge of skill mismatch
Relevant to
these pillars, the major issues to be considered and discussed during the
conference regard:
- strengthening the effectiveness of public policies (e.g. work-based learning, ALMPs) to facilitate transitions from school to work and unemployment back to work;
- improving the efficiency and responsiveness of public training programmes to labour market needs;
- ensuring that the benefits of new technologies are transformed into more and better jobs and lower wage inequality;
- improving the responsiveness of VET systems and institutions to innovations and changing skill needs, so as to better anticipate and tackle skill shortages;
- allowing VET providers to act as catalysts of enhanced social cooperation in tackling skill mismatch;
- developing and using the skills of the workforce by redesigning jobs, adopting better human resource management practices and raising job quality.
The
objective of the conference is to inform policies that can stimulate skills
demand through innovation and better jobs and be effectively matched to the
skills of young and adult workers, as stated in the revised priorities for VET
agreed by the European Commission, Member States and social partners at Riga in
June 2015 (‘Riga Conclusions’).
Participation
in this conference is by invitation only.
Programme, speakers,
registration etc.: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/events-and-projects/events/MaxSkillsJobs2015
