1. Leonardo Da Vinci – LLP Transfer of Innovation Project Skills Matching And Route for Training Knowledge Network (S.M.A.R.T. KNOW. NET. )

2. PROJECT GENERAL OBJECTIVES To ensure a better correspondence between skills provided from the educational system and the effective demand from the companies, following the EU Recommendation “New skills for new jobs”, aiming at: Help to better forecast the future skill requirements Better balance the supply of skills and need of the labour market Help to improve the relationship between education and labour market

3. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Transfer and validation of KN software (Knowledge Network) at EU level, collecting information about the characters of the companies and about the skills demand; Creation of a pan-European tool, localized for different countries, to help SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) and VET (Vocational Educational institutes) to describe skills in a transparent and transferable way.

4. Public authorities at national, regional and local level, enterprises, social parties, education agencies and individuals can benefit from regular information about the changes in short term of the requirements of skills and professionalism that emerge from the job market and the evolution of job offer and its future projection COMPANIES WORKERS PUBLIC AUTHORITIES EDUCATION INSTITUTES SMART KN

5. It is essential to improve the activities of monitoring and evaluation of the labour market perspectives compared to the skills request to: Facilitate the coupling of professional abilities with the actual job offers; Promote the development of such abilities in order to improve the long term employment perspectives; Help the reintegration in job market.

6. PROJECT FRAMEWORK Surveys on skills request from companies; Survey of skill supply by the job market; Analysis of the relationship between demand and supply of skills; Identifying the evolving lines of education offered to fill the gap between demand and supply of skills Skills demand from companies Skills offered from labour market Analysis of the relationship demand-offer of skills Evolutionary lines of education

7. CLASSIFICATION The classification concerns sectors of activity, professionals and skills it will be collected in a catalogue. The catalogue will be created using a bottom-up approach, starting from operative positions, and it will be defined during the survey by companies and workers. SECTORS OF ACTIVITY PROFESSIONALS SKILLS

8. Partners Istituto Romano per la Formazione Imprenditoriale http://www.irfi.it/ITALY Sapienza Università di Romahttp://www.uniroma1.it/ITALY CREA - Confederación De Empresarios De Aragón http://www.madrid.es/portales/m unimadrid/es/Inicio SPAIN Omega Technologyhttp://www.omegatech.gr/GREECE Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Handicraft S.A. http://www.eommex.gr/GREECE Latvijas Universitatehttp://www.lu.lv/LATVIA Izba Przemysłowo-Handlowa w Krakowie (Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Cracow) http://www.iph.krakow.pl/?lang=e n POLAND

9. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. For further information, Visit the project website Smart Know Net: http://smartkn.eu/