Interreg Europe celebrates the European Year of Skills
In 2023, the European Union is celebrating the European Year of Skills. The campaign aims to address the skills gap in the European Union and boost the EU skills strategy. This will help reskill people and will focus on digital and green technology skills.
At Interreg Europe, our projects and Policy Learning Platform have identified and produced a number of resources to improve skills-related policies in the regions.
Skills for the energy transition
If you’re interested in improving the skills of the people in your region for the energy transition, then look no further than our Policy Learning Platform.
Our thematic experts identified and gathered together a series of policy recommendations, strategies and highly transferable good practices on the topic and shared it with our community in this:
- Webinar on jobs and skills for the energy transition,
- And a policy brief entitled ‘Skills for the energy transition’.
Investing in the human factor and developing your region’s skills for energy transition is the only real enabler of the green transformations that lie ahead.
What other topics did we cover?
But that’s not all our projects and Policy Learning Platform have worked on over the years. They’ve also identified good practices and made policy recommendations in the areas of:
- Skills for innovation
- Skills for business acceleration
- Skills in the workplace
- Skills for digital transitions
Scroll through our policy solutions to find the most relevant to you
Policy recommendations by our Platform experts
Skills for innovation
Discover five policy recommendations using the experience of Interreg Europe projects dealing with the development of skills for innovation to offer regions a path towards better regional innovation.
One-Stop-Shops
One-Stop-Shops (OSS) bring together the full gamut of policy interventions, working with stakeholders to provide skills and knowledge for home renovation.
Webinar recording: How to bring skills to companies?
Watch the recording and access the presentations of our last workplace training mini webinar on how to bring skills to companies.
Workplace training: successful initiatives
In this webinar recording, you'll learn how regions, SMEs and young graduates can benefit from graduate work placement programmes and initiatives.
Webinar recording: What is workplace training and why is it relevant for regions?
Watch the recording and access the presentations of our first 30-minute workplace training webinar which took place on 12 March!
Webinar recording on Centres of Competence
Watch the webinar recording on Centres of Competence that took place on 25 September 2020.
Key learnings: Innovation capacities of SMEs
On 23 February 2022, the online workshop "Innovation capacities of SMEs" took place. Explore the key learnings of this workshop and get inspired!
Energy Efficiency: skills and programmes for SMEs
Discover policy recommendations on skills for the energy transition of the peer review, hosted by the Region of Western Macedonia, Greece, in October 2020.
Good practices identified by our projects
Skills for the digital transition in the textile sector: PRISMA's training programme
The PRISMA project addresses techno scientific and economic challenges of Prato’s Textile Industrial District in networks of firms and laboratories.
CROSKILLS - Strengthening EE Skills and Certification Schemes for Construcion Workers in Croatia
Redesign of permanent employment programs focusing on digital job search skills
Looking ahead
We approved our new first call projects back in December 2022. Among them, three projects will be working specifically on skills for:
- Business acceleration,
- Smart specialization,
- and social models.
We expect great things to come in the coming years. Bookmark them to stay up-to-date with their progress.
What is the European Year of Skills?
The European Year of Skills aims to address skills gaps in the European Union and boost the EU skills strategy, which will help reskill people with the focus on digital and green technology skills.
This will require helping people get the right skills for quality jobs and helping companies, in particular small and medium enterprises by highlighting national efforts as well as -existing and new EU initiatives and EU funding possibilities. It will support skills-related activities and events across Europe.
The year started on 9 May and will run for 12 months.
Go to the European Union website to see how you can get involved.