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Skills Horizon Webinar
08/05/2024
On May 8, 2024, the TRAILS project was presented as part of the Skills Horizon Webinar. The event had the goal of networking and dissemination of Horizon Europe projects focused on skills, jointly organized by iRead4Skills, MEGASKILLS, and Skills2Capabilities. The webinar was an opportunity for projects to seek potential synergies and to learn from each other’s practices, attended by over 100 participants.
George Panos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) presented TRAILS: Enabling Data Analytics for Data Shortages and Mismatch. The data-driven project seeks to build on current data and empower existing databases for skills, including using machine learning. The goal is to synthesize and understand current data on skills mismatch, including addressing shortages through VET. The project understands skills shortages are not just a labour market issue, but also one of productivity and social welfare.
The coordinators from TRAILS’ sister projects (past and present) gave an overview of their work, including:
- Link4Skills: The project will use AI to create a policy dashboard to have an overlook of EU skills shortages in the labour market. The project overall seeks to assist decision-makers in the EU when addressing skills policies.
- Skillab: The project will build an intuitive platform accessible by all industry partners that considers all types of skills to invest in the future across the EU.
- SkilMeet: It focuses on digitalisation and greening, in consideration of demographic change. It will provide indicators and datasets of skills shortages in digitalisation and greening trends.
- Skills4Justice: It will develop systemic causes of skills shortages in 11 countries in the context of global migration and skill shortages, not only in EU host countries but also in countries with high rates of migrants leaving (i.e. Ukraine)
- Technequality: It considers the relationship between AI and skills requirements in the labour market. It sought to research the future of work within a world populated with AI.
- CLEAR: It focuses on the construction of learning outcomes and includes the vision of young people in these matters.
- MEGASKILLS: It will seek to make a standard soft skills definition and taxonomy, to help to improve the training in, and evaluation of, soft skills. It will also train an AI machine to find similarities between video games and soft skills.
- YOUNG ADULT: The project focused on a comparative analysis of lifelong learning policies across countries and how they could be applied by young people
- Skills2Capabilities: It seeks to understand how education and training systems are adapting to skills changes in the labour market. It looks at both supply and demand in Vocational Education and Training.
- GS43: It builds on existing knowledge for qualifications and workforce availability in the EU, by considering other mega policies such as education and migration.
- iRead4Skills: It seeks to promote the development of reading skills through a system that evaluates the reading complexity of texts.
In the interactive breakout rooms, participants had the chance to ask detailed questions. Overall, the webinar was an excellent opportunity to share experiences and find potential links for the future.