The Pact for Skills one year on: 450 organisations pledge to reskill over 1.5 million people in Europe

Having the right skills is essential for individuals’ success in a fast changing labour market. The recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the rhythm of change in how we live, learn and work, as well as how we progresss in our careers. The Pact for Skills was set up to bring together employers, workers, public employment services, regional authorities and others to identify what skills will be needed in different sectors of the economy to ensure we can flourish in a more green and digital society.

今天,该协议首次庆祝生日。一个lot has happened in the last year and the strong alliances already built are creating more opportunities for working-age people across Europe to learn new skills and improve their prospects in the labour market and at work.

Bringing stakeholders together

More than 450 organisationsfrom all Member Stateshave signed up– and the community is growing. Members include:

• big multinational companies such as Nestlé, SAP, Google, Cisco, Microsoft, Ford Europe and Hitachi Europe
• local training providers
• chambers of commerce
• small and medium-sized enterprises
• sectoral clusters such as the AVASEAN cleantech cluster in Spain and the “mareFVG” marine technology cluster in Italy
• regional authorities
• employer and trade union representatives.

The Next Tourism Generation Alliance supports and contributes to the Pact for Skills in Tourism.

What does it mean to be a Pact for Skills member?

Everyone joining the Pact commits to a宪章to build quality and inclusive skills initiatives and work against discrimination and for equal opportunities.

They also set out for their partnership or organisationconcrete targetson what they want to do to increase skills, for instance, a commitment to:

• train people in their sector
• invest in up and reskilling
• develop new training programmes
• promote the value of learning in their organisation and with their partners.

Following high-level round tables with movers and shakers in the14 ‘industrial ecosystems’ identified by the EU Industry Strategy, large-scale partnerships are starting to emerge.Tourismis one of them.

Examples of what is happening

TheAutomotive Skills Alliance:more than 80 partners working in 5 thematic areas that respond to some of the most pressing drivers of change for the automotive sector. In the coming years, they’ll train 700,000 people for a mobility workforce of the future.

TheTourism Sector is building a partnership under the Pact for Skills吸引人才,建立卡帕city in the tourism subsectors.

一个lot of examples can be found on thewebsite of the European Commission.

Get involved

Through thePact for Skills, the European Commission is bringing together stakeholders to create a culture of lifelong learning at work.

The Pact isone of the 12 flagship actionsof theEuropean Skills Agendathat the Commission presented in July 2020.

The Agenda’s actions, including the Pact for Skills, set apolicy frameworkfor delivering on the objectives of theEuropean Pillar of Social Rights.

This includes theEU level target,welcomed earlier this year at thePorto Social Summitby Heads of State and Government, thatby 2030 at least 60% of adults should participate in training every year.

Join the Pact for Skills!

See what others are doing, get inspired, and take the next stepby signing up.

Want to learn more first?During the freeNext Tourism Generation online conference,‘Building a Skilled Workforce in Tourism’ one of the modules is dedicated to Envisioning a Skills Partnership in Tourism. Join this free session on18 November 2021, from 16.00 – 17.15byregistering for the conference.Clickhere.