skills

Europe is facing an ever-growing skills gap that risks to slow down future growth and exasperate social disparities. This calls for a large-scale response to upskill and/or reskill the European workforce. How can Europe successfully scale-up best practices and fund this massive effort? Over two days...

International projects and collaboration among countries require individuals with different backgrounds and professions coming together to work towards shared goals. Enhancing effective collaboration is a key to transferring knowledge and learning from one another to improve and become more...

Technological progress. Artificial intelligence. Globalisation. Climate change. Megatrends are shaping the labour market. Skills needs are rapidly changing across jobs. As a result, many sectors of the economy are suffering from skills shortages. But which skills are needed, and how can we deliver...

We introduce to you this week a discussion paper published by the European Cluster Observatory (2014-2016) that aimed at initiating a debate on the current and future role of clusters and cluster organisations in connection with skills development with a special focus on emerging industries...

Knowledge Alliances are transnational projects which bring higher education institutions and business together to work on common issues. Knowledge Alliances should foresee participation in thematic clusters and other initiatives to promote the sharing of best practices. The overall aim is to help...