CoP Employment, Education and Skills
This CoP focuses on the following:
- Improving access to employment and activation measures for all job seekers, especially the most vulnerable (disadvantaged groups, long-term unemployed), inactive people, and people with a migrant background, and through the promotion of self-employment and the social economy.
- Youth employment, education and activation (incl. Youth Guarantee) and integration into the employment of disadvantaged NEETs, including through youth mobility actions.
- Job creation and promotion of decent work in sectors and fields related to sustainability (environment, climate, energy, the circular economy, and the bioeconomy) as well as through digitalization and the use of digital tools and applications, including artificial intelligence and the protection of privacy.
- Adaptation of skills and qualifications to meet the needs of the green and digital transitions, changing labor markets and transforming industrial ecosystems.
- Gender-balanced labor market participation, healthy ageing, equal working conditions and work-life balance, an adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change.
- Employment, social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine.
- Education and training systems, skills, assistance, support, transition, and mobility through modernizing labour market institutions.
- Inclusive education, lifelong learning and training relevant to the labor market, including through validation of non-formal and informal learning and learning mobility for all and accessibility for persons with disabilities.
- “Soft outcomes” and alternative ways to measure outcomes (outside of “hard” indicators such as employment rates, etc.).
The work program of the CoP on Employment Education and Skills 2024.
The work program of the CoP on Employment Education and Skills 2023.
Study Towards zero long-term unemployment in the EU: Job guarantees and other innovative approaches
