European skills document

Finally a document about the future european skills!

There has been a lack of information on future skill needs in Europe for a long time. Requests for information have been repeatedly coming to Cedefop and other European organisations.
The European labour market is becoming a reality on the European Union (EU) policy agenda and the free movement of labour gives hope that increased mobility across European countries will help to reduce unemployment. At the same time, occupations, skills, competences and qualifications, which will be required on the European labour market in future, have not been identified. The need to anticipate skills and occupational needs were defined as a priority in the Maastricht communiqué (1), in the European Council’s integrated guidelines for employment
for 2005-08 (2) (guidelines Nos 19, 20 and 24), and in the Social partners’ framework of actions for the lifelong development of competencies and qualifications (3).To find ways of obtaining information on future skill needs in Europe – even a joint European action – has become a main concern.

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