Skills are key for sustainable competitiveness, resilience and ensuring social fairness for all. The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the importance of having the right skills for strategic sectors to perform and for individuals to navigate through life and professional transitions. The Skills Agenda proposed by the European Commission will be launched in November 2020 and introduces a totally new momentum, focused on skilling for a job and including a number of flagships, one for all, the Pact for Skills.
The European Pact for skills aims at mobilising all partners for more and better opportunities for people to train, and encourages stakeholders to unlock public and private investments across industrial and skills ecosystems.
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July – Sept 2020
Consultation on the Charter
Develop a set of principles that measure the quality level of upskilling and reskilling commitments descripted by KPIs
June – August 2020
Peer Learning Clubs
phase 1 – Identify & prioritise problems
Consultation of members to define the challenges for the future of TVET
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July – Sept 2020
Consultation of stakeholders
Seek agreement and define principles and KPIs
Identify possible EC actions to support partnerships
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Aug – Sept 2020
Peer Learning Clubs
phase 2 – Plan strategies
Design the Skillman proposals for the future of TVET
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Sept – Oct 2020
Roundtables
Organise roundtables with ecosystems and sectoral social partners
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Sept – Oct 2020
Peer Learning Clubs
phase 3 – Take action
Consultations and dissemination, active campaign, policy influencing
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Nov 2020
Launch of the pact for Skills and Joint Declaration
Berlin, 10th Nov 2020
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Sept – Oct 2020
Peer Learning Clubs
phase 4 – Evaluate together
Skillman Declaration
The Skillman network contributes to the agenda with several initiatives that go hand in hand with the improvement of vocational training and lifelong learning activities and, in particular, with the implementation of Peer Learning Clubs, which aim to express some specific observations that will be addressed to the political counterparts.
This process, involving several members of the network, defines the Skillman’s vision for the European Pact for Skills and it is in line with the efforts to mobilize all relevant stakeholders to take real action to upskill and reskill the workforce, by setting up partnerships supporting green and digital transitions as well as local and regional growth strategies.