1. ESCO Connecting people and jobs
Martin le Vrang
28 September 2017
#ESCO_EU
#EUdatathon2017

2. What is ESCO?

3. A multilingual classification of
European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

4. A European reference language for employment and education/training
Create a shared understanding
Exchange information
Cross language barriers
Bridge between national standards
Communicate between labour market and education/training
Match candidates with jobs

5. Three ESCO pillars
qualifications
occupations
skills

7. ESCO can be used In employment services By job boards In HR software
For career guidance
For labour market intelligence
In research …

8. ESCO in EURES

10. ESCO & EURES New EURES Regulation 2016/589/EU
Exchange of job vacancies and CVs/job applications
Art. 19 (3)
"The Commission shall adopt and update, by means of implementing acts, the list of skills, competences and occupations of the European classification."
Member States will adopt the European classification or map their national standards to it

11. Continuous improvement of ESCO

12. 3. Knowledge engineering 2. Scoping
Overview of the ESCO improvement process
4. Release
1. Preparation
3. Knowledge engineering
2. Scoping

13. ESCO timeline
____ ESCO Board, Maintenance Cte & reference groups
____ Finalise reference groups; online consultation
____ MS consultation; release ESCO v1
____ Stakeholder conference
____ Release ESCO v0
____ Gap analysis; piloting & testing
____ EURES Implementing Act; continuous improvement

14. ESCO is free & available now!
In TTL (RDF) format
Soon in CSV and as API
#ESCO_EU