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Title: European classification of Skills, Competences, Occupations and Qualifications (ESCO)
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Blurb (brief description): European classification of Skills, Competences, Occupations and Qualifications (ESCO) is the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations. ESCO is part of the Europe 2020 strategy.

The ESCO classification identifies and categorises skills, competences, qualifications and occupations relevant for the EU labour market and education and training. It systematically shows the relationships between the different concepts.
Abstract: The European Commission has launched the first full version of the European classification of Skills, Competences, Occupations and Qualifications (ESCO).

The classification is available in 26 languages (the 24 EU languages, Icelandic and Norwegian).

ESCO facilitates the dialogue between labour market and the education/training sector by providing a common language that could help overcome labour market imbalances and increase occupational and geographical mobility in the EU.

Concretely, ESCO:

- Connects people and jobs, by providing a common language that helps jobseekers to find the job that best matches their skills. As recruitment is increasingly digitised, both employers and jobseekers need to use digital tools that allow them to communicate in a meaningful manner. ESCO aims to make these digital tools work better together;

- Connects employment and education, as education providers can use it to describe the expected learning outcomes of their curricula and to understand better the labour market trends and future skills needs;

- Connects labour markets at EU level, by acting as the digital enabler of labour market mobility. The Commission has the ambition for ESCO to become the European classification for the information exchange via EURES, as foreseen by the EURES Regulation.

The first full version (ESCO v1) is available free of charge through the ESCO service platform. It covers 2 942 occupations, 13 485 knowledge, skills and competences and will progressively display information on qualifications provided by the Member States. The Commission also envisages integrating private, international and sectorial qualifications from other sources into ESCO in the near future. It is piloting this approach and discussing it with the Member States.

The publication of ESCO v1 is a key milestone in the achievement of objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy and the New Skills Agenda for Europe.
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Publication Date: 28/07/2017 0:00
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