{"id":420430,"date":"2025-03-05T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/05\/crisi-commissione-ue-lancia-union-skills\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:48:19","slug":"skills-crisis-in-the-eu-commission-launches-the-union-of-skills-to-combat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/05\/skills-crisis-in-the-eu-commission-launches-the-union-of-skills-to-combat-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills crisis in the EU: Commission launches the “Union of skills” to combat it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The twelve-star competitiveness crisis<\/strong> also affects European students’ and workers’ skills and knowledge. The\u00a0picture\u00a0<\/a>is<\/span>\u00a0far from rosy: there is a shortage of skills<\/strong>, from the most basic to those in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). There are 18 million under-productive learners while one in three 15-year-olds fail to apply math in daily life. The continent’s aging population will reduce the number of working-age people by 7 million in 2030 compared to three years ago, further exacerbating the skills crisis.<\/p>\n

The European Commission<\/strong>‘s response<\/a> to these challenges is the “Union of Skills<\/strong>,” launched this morning (March 5) by Roxana M\u00eenzatu<\/strong>, the Executive Vice President for social rights and skills. The strategy aims to support the development of human capital through programmes<\/a> for supporting young people in acquiring basic skills (Basic Skill Support Scheme), incentives for upskilling for workers<\/strong> at risk of unemployment or involved in restructuring processes (starting with the automotive sector), facilities for the recognition of qualifications from one EU country to another.<\/p>\n

To attract talent<\/strong> from around the world, the Commission will launch “Choose Europe<\/strong>,” a pilot program with a \u20ac22.5 million budget aimed at offering job prospects and study and employment conditions for non-EU nationals. If adopted, the project (on trial as early as next April) will be assisted by an “EU talent pool”\u00a0to recruit the\u00a0best<\/strong>\u00a0students, researchers, and workers, and a visa facilitation strategy will<\/span>\u00a0be unveiled this year. The Union of skills will rest on the participation of member states. It will use a\u00a0dedicated\u00a0European Skills Observatory and a Board responsible for taking action and coordinating objectives.<\/p>\n

Commissioner M\u00eenzatu concluded her announcement by emphasizing that “the success of every person in learning, at work and in life, is essential for competitiveness and for a stable and resilient Union,” and by announcing that the Commission intends to introduce a new recommendation<\/strong> EU-27 on education and skills in the European Semester<\/strong> cycle, to direct member states and address the problem of fragmented funding for the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A program to improve the quality of learning, innovate the labor sector, and attract talent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":410279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26324,26884,26297,27526,28475,27009,26444],"class_list":["post-420430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-commissione-ue-en","tag-mobility","tag-schooland","tag-competencies-and","tag-universita-en","tag-work-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420451,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420430\/revisions\/420451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}