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This year's PES Network conference "Empowering the Workforce, Bridging the Skills Gap" focused on the rapidly changing skills requirements of the European labour market. The ESCO team participated to exchange ideas and views on how to identify and understand the skills needs of the future labour market, develop skills for digital and green transitions, support those impacted by automation and digitalisation, and move towards more frequent re- and upskilling.

One of the tasks of the INCREAS project was to describe occupations and related skills in the Cultural Heritage Sector, while analyzing sector needs. The ESCO team attended the final conference to discuss this feedback and presented the most recent developments and upcoming updates that may be beneficial to the Cultural Heritage sector, as well as to encourage collaboration to continue.

After two years of online meetings, the ESCO Member States Working Group met in person on March 15, 2023 in Brussels. The ESCO team discussed the role of data science in the continuous maintenance of ESCO, the recent developments in EURES mapping, and plans for the next major version ESCO update, which will follow policy developments of the European Year of Skills and thus be published in Q1 of 2024.

Agenda highlights: European Semester 2023 - European Year of Skills - One year into the Russian aggression against Ukraine: the employment and social situation in the EU, with a focus on the labour market situation of refugees from Ukraine.

To take stock of ongoing activities and exchange on further steps in digitalisation, support of labour mobility and free movement, the European Commission (Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG) will organise this high-level policy conference.

Public Employment Service (PES) representatives from Ireland, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Slovenia will join the dialogue and address how they work internally on Systematic Quality Management.

This seminar will focus on skills assessment, credentials, validation and recognition, thus making a concrete contribution to the 2023 European Year of Skills.

The third and final meeting of the PES Network Working Group (WG) on Digitalisation will be held in person in Amsterdam (NL) on 9 February 2023. The topic will be defined on the basis of the outcomes of the previous two WG meetings and participant’s needs, thus, would either focus on previously discussed issues or on new ones.

The topic of the third and final meeting of the PES Network Working Group (WG) on Digitalisation, will be defined on the basis of the outcomes of the previous two WG meetings.

The High-Level Group on the future of social protection and of the welfare state in the EU will present their concluding report. The expert group examined how to reinforce social protection both at national and European levels to respond to megatrends such as demographic change, the impact of new forms of work, and the digital and green transitions.

The webinar will highlight the adopted data-driven approach developed in the frame of the ENCORE project, which combines artificial intelligence and human expertise, to identify Green, Digital, and Entrepreneurial skills. Learn more about how ESCO is useful in this process by signing up below.

The heads of European Public Employment Services (PES) will come together on 15-16 December for the second PES Network Board meeting of 2022.

The European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA) will organise a live discussion on how to promote apprenticeships to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).