Today, with the support of the Commission, a large-scale skills partnership for the Cultural and Creative Industries ecosystem was set up. The partnership aims to establish a shared model for skills development in Europe to pool resources and engage in concrete upskilling and reskilling initiatives in the cultural and creative industries.

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The partnership aims to establish a shared model for skills development in Europe to pool resources and engage in concrete upskilling and reskilling initiatives in the cultural and creative industries. The partnership will promote learning opportunities and ‘on the job' training to strengthen the resilience of the sector and equip its professionals with the skills they need.

There will be a particular focus on digital, green, entrepreneurial and technical skills as well as on arts and crafts. The partners involved have agreed on commitments and indicators to improve skills intelligence, new training programmes and the number of people trained. For instance, the partners will promote the mutual recognition of training paths across EU countries.

This partnership will contribute and complement the support already available to the industry for reskilling and upskilling, including through several EU funding instruments and through the Creative Europe Programme.

Following commitments in other industrial ecosystems, this partnership between European umbrella associations, networks, sectoral associations, vocational education and training providers as well as trade union is based on the Pact for Skills, one of the flagship initiatives under the European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience.