Pact for Skills Thematic Seminar

Securing and retaining skilled workers to tackle skills shortages

15 May 2025, 15:00-16:30 CEST

About the event

The EU is facing significant labour and skills shortages across multiple sectors that cannot be filled by EU citizens alone. To address this challenge, the European Commission recently launched the Union of Skills: Building on the Skills Agenda and the European Year of Skills, the Union of Skills ‘aims to ensure that everyone in Europe, no matter where they are, is empowered to build solid skills foundations and engage in lifelong upskilling and reskilling, in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights’.

The Union of Skills focuses on four strands to ensure everyone in Europe is empowered to build solid skills foundations and engage in lifelong upskilling and reskilling. Its fourth strand centres on attracting, developing, and retaining talent for Europe's future innovation, growth, and competitiveness, from inside the EU and around the world.

In this Thematic Seminar,  Pact for Skills members will have the opportunity to gain insights on the new Union of Skills initiative, and hear from experts on securing and retaining skilled workers to tackle skills shortages through migration and mobility initiatives. The thematic seminar will provide a space to explore good practice examples, discuss the obstacles encountered by the experts, and strategies for overcoming them.

 

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