📢Global Skills Forum off to a great start! Listen to International Labour Organization ADG Mia Seppo answer what #skillsforall means to her. Follow the event live👉ow.ly/T9TG50RhWix

🌱💪The future is green! Kadri Simson highlights the shift to renewables, projecting 3 million new jobs in the sector by 2030 to meet our #RePowerEU goals. Ensuring our workforce is ready is crucial. It’s time to skill up Europe! #EuropeanYearOfSkills

#EuropeanYearOfSkills National coordinators visited today inspiring skills projects, ranging from aviation to biopharma and chemicals to horticulture and food preparation! Thanks to the Belgian Presidency for the great day! EU Social 🇪🇺 @EU2024BE

Round table: Employability as a solution to the mismatch in the IT labour market Is there a shortage in the IT labor market? Is access to education/training still a problem to solve? Some questions to be answered at Techgrounds

As the #EuropeanYearOfSkills draws to a close, let me thank the super fantastic team that made it happen!!!

Konin’s JTF project ‘Jobs after coal’ shows the way forward of how a successful partnership between trade unions, companies, social economy enterprises, regional labour office and local authorities can drive forward a green transition that is fair and just!

Many thanks to @PublicPolicyRS for organising the Reshaping Work Conference in Belgrade and the insightful discussions on Platform Work developments in the Western Balkans!

Many thanks to Minister Monika Sikora ⚡️ for this meeting and for starting the discussions on an Individual Learning Account in Poland that puts learners in the driving seat!

🗓️SAVE THE DATE🗓️ Watch the @WorldSkills2024 Opening Ceremony LIVE online 10 Sept 19:00 CEST. 🎥 The kick-off to the world's biggest skills Competition includes a Parade of Nations featuring 1,400 Competitors from around the 🌍. SAVE THE LINK: worldskills2024.com/en/live-stream… #WSC2024

WHAT’S ON • Wednesday 11 Sept Today, Lyon 🇫🇷 becomes the global hub of skills excellence as @WorldSkills2024 AND WorldSkills Conference 2024 begin. Learn more about those events and more in our daily newsletter: worldskills.org/media/news/wha… 🎉🥳 #WSC2024

Glad to participate in the Forum on Vocational Excellence in Lyon and to engage in a discussion on the future of vocational education and training! #COVE

Over 1600 young people from 70 countries start competing today at #WorldSkills Lyon in 60 different trades! Not only amazing and inspiring to watch but a tangible proof of the importance of vocational education and training for our economies!

Very happy to discuss today the GIVE project that focusses on how vocational education and training can achieve excellence in inclusion! I fully subscribe to the concept of looking at the potential of each individual!

👏 Adopted! 👏 Today, the EU Council has adopted our proposal on the #PlatformWork. The new rules will improve working conditions for more than 28 million people working in platform work across the EU. #SocialRights

Great discussions today at Norway House on lessons learned from EEA grants and on bridging the skills gaps!

Great work done by the B-Wise project in developing together VET curricula on work integration and getting them taken up in 8 countries! A first concrete step to making skills portable!

A great panel of speakers at 30th anniversary of European Training Foundation 🇪🇺 . Li Andersson of the European Parliament Mario Nava from European Commission cesare onestini of European Council @MBousquetEU lay out the way forward for the next years. A more global ETF contributing to the Union of skills is key.

🔴 En parallèle du Sommet pour l'action sur l'IA (#AIActionSummit), le #CESE & l'European Economic and Social Committee se sont associés pour organiser un après-midi d'échanges sur l'impact de l'intelligence artificielle sur les conditions de travail & les emplois "L’#IA est un sujet social et politique, qui

Europe is underperforming in skills, and it’s holding back our competitiveness. We need to act now.   Professions like healthcare, mechanics, IT, and renewable energy are noble and essential to Europe’s future. Let’s take pride in the people who keep our economy moving.

Thank you, EP VP Victor NEGRESCU, and MEPs Nela Riehl, Eleonora Meleti, Brigitte vd Berg for leading the Intergroup on the Future of Education and Skills. Strong collaboration with the European Parliament is crucial to closing the skills gap and building a stronger, inclusive Europe.