New Cedefop database ‘Matching skills: Inspiring policies for anticipating and matching skill needs'
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Lifelong learning
There is a critical need for a greater overall investment in education and training, particularly in developing countries. Education and training investments should be closely linked to economic and employment growth strategies and programmes. Responsibility should be shared between the government (primary responsibility), enterprises, the social partners, and the individual. To make lifelong learning for all a reality, countries will need to make major reforms of their vocational and education and training systems. School-to-work schemes for young people should integrate education with workplace learning. Training systems need to become more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing skill requirements. Reforms should also focus on how learning can be facilitated, not just on training for specific occupational categories.
Promotional material
Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.
Statistical information
Data produced by the international organizations and countries on trends in skills provision, demand, and employment outcomes to help inform policy-making and monitoring processes.
It helps understand, in a comparative manner, the approaches used and the rationales behind them; it provides information on practical organisation, funding and stakeholder involvement; it also provides insight on how innovative and successful a policy instrument is and whether it could be successfully applied elsewhere.
The database structures and displays information in a way that can be readily accessed and interpreted. It includes:
- 126 current skills matching policies – to aid jobseekers’ return to work and job mobility, and provide better guidance for school-to-work transitions;
- 31 anticipating future skills policies – to better prepare the workforce for the future of work;
- Comprehensive overviews for all EU Member States – to learn and understand what EU countries are doing to promote better skills matching;
- A map interface to quickly locate policy instruments in particular countries;
- A user feedback section and a template to report on additional skills matching policies in each Member State.
For more information, click on the link provided below.
Skills and training policy
Skills anticipation
Skills indicators
Europe and Central Asia
