1. What is new in the world of skills?
DG EMPL
What is new in the world of skills?

2. New Skills Agenda for Europe
Key elements and actions
The information on the initiatives described in this presentation must be considered as work in progress to be confirmed only upon adoption of the Skills Agenda package by the Commission.

3. Improving the quality and relevance of skills formation
Council Recommendation on Skills Guarantee June 2016
Revision of the Key Competences Framework 2017
VET as a pathway to excellence 2017
Digital Skills for Europe end 2016
Making skills and qualifications more visible and comparable
Revision of the European Qualifications Framework June 2016
Skills Tool Kit for Third Country Nationals June 2016
Improving skills intelligence and information for better career choices
Revision of Europass late 2016
Sharing best practices on addressing brain drain 2017
Blueprint for Sectorial Cooperation on Skills June 2016
Initiative on graduate tracking 2017

4. A Skills Guarantee
To help low-qualified people acquire a minimum level of literacy, numeracy and digital skills and/or an upper secondary education qualification (EQF 4).

5. A Skills Guarantee – for whom and what?
adults without upper secondary education
basic skills
literacy, numeracy, digital skills
The Commission is proposing a Skills Guarantee: people that are already out of the education and training system, without having gained an upper secondary qualification, would have access to flexible individualised upskilling pathways to improve their literacy, numeracy or digital skills and/or to progress towards an upper secondary qualification (EQF 4) gaining a wider set of skills, as defined in the Council Recommendation on Key Competences.
and/or
EQF level 4 or equivalent
Source: Eurostat 2015, Labour Force Survey

6. Cooperation and Partnership
A Skills Guarantee
Cooperation and Partnership
Skills assessment
Tailored E&T offer
Validation and recognition
Outreach, Guidance and Support Measures
The Commission believes that many adults are prevented from taking part in learning by structural problems such as limited outreach and guidance, limited opportunities for skills assessments or for the validation of their existing skills, limited individualised support, and the limited flexibility of adult education and training provision. There are also situational obstacles, such as lack of motivation due to previous negative experiences of schooling.
The proposed ‘Skills Guarantee’ would aim to improve the literacy, numeracy and digital skills of low-skilled adults and raise their educational attainment to the equivalent of an upper secondary qualification (EQF level 4).
One of the three options proposed would be for Member States to put in place flexible pathways allowing low-skilled people to improve their proficiency in literacy, numeracy and digital skills to upper secondary level or equivalent.
Under this option, Member States would be invited to:
offer skills assessments to identify the skills that people have acquired outside the formal system and any gaps in their knowledge;
make arrangements to allow people have these skills validated; and
offer tailored packages of education and training to meet the specific skills needs of each learner who had problems with literacy, numeracy or digital skills.
This proposal will take the form of a Recommendation from the European Commission to the European Council.
The Skills Guarantee should be implemented in regard of following principles:
1. Coordination and partnership
MSs should designate and provide with sufficient mandate one or a limited number of bodies responsible for implementing the Recommendation and coordinating the work of all engaged institutions/organisations.
Include companies, private organisations, social partners in the design and implementation of the Skills Guarantee.
2. Outreach, guidance and support measures
Identify target groups (mapping) and
design the outreach accordingly to their needs.
Provide incentives to those less motivated.
Ensure guidance and support measures to support learners' progression through all the way.
3. Monitoring and evaluation
Establish, within a year from the adoption of the Recommendation, an action plan for its implementation (timeline, objectives).
Monitor and evaluate all measures under the Skills Guarantee.
Monitoring and Evaluation

7. VET Adult learning Learning mobility in I-VET; mobility scoreboard
Work based learning (I-VET) and apprenticeship (IVET)
Workplace learning (C-VET) - WG
Riga (I- and C-VET)
VET Week
T&T in I-VET - WG
Adult learning
EAAL, national coordinators
Skills Guarantee
Conference in December

8. Thank you