UIA reading list: Skilling for change
It arrives at a time when globalisation and population ageing, among other societal mega-trends, are profoundly impacting the type and quality of available jobs and the skills required to perform them.
These changes put an additional risk on those who rely solely on primary education and are at risk of being excluded from the labour market. Across EU cities, tackling skill mismatch and skill shortages are major challenges, especially for local labour markets exposed to global, substantial and rapid changes. UIA experimentations therefore come at a crucial time to find new ways of collecting and using information on local skills changes to better design long-life trainings (Eindhoven, P4W) and better align local economic strategies with labour market changes.
Read more about UIA projects latest achievements while implementing strategies to forecast, manage, improve local skills pool (Vantaa, GSIP, Ventspils and Valmiera NextGen) and develop local models of social entrepreneurship (Coventry MiFriendly Cities, Madrid MARES).
- NextGen Microcities, Journal 2: get an update about Ventspils and Valmiera project, Fabio Sgaragli
- Passport4Work Journal 2: A phase of intensive technical development and prototyping in Eindhoven, Ronald Lievens
- GSIP-Vantaa, Journal 2: get an update on Vantaa's project, Gabriel Amitsis
- MiFriendly Cities Journal 5: XXI century heroes – Social Enterprises and Social Innovations leading the way, Peter Wolkowinski
- MARES Journal 6: get an update about Madrid project, Alessandro Coppola
Interested in an overview of Jobs and skills UIA projects?
- Have a look at the topic page
- Explore the UIA knowledge lab
- Policy trend of the 3rd call for proposals, October 2018
- Introductory paper, Experiences from Madrid, Bilbao, Milan and Rotterdam, 2018
- The Thematic Report result of a work stream activity on Jobs and Skills analysing the trends of the 1st UIA call for proposals 1 projects