EU Commission aims to tackle the EU's skilled labour shortage
The European Commission has identified 42 occupations shortages, particularly in construction, transport and health sectors.
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The European Commission has identified 42 occupations shortages, particularly in construction, transport and health sectors.
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00:00To remain competitive, the European Union needs skilled workers, an issue that the Commission
00:11and the European Parliament have taken up in recent days.
00:15This shortage of skilled labour is due to problems of supply and demand, and also a
00:20mismatch between workers' qualifications and employers' needs.
00:24There could be pressures because of the demand, and clearly for the ICT professions, given
00:29that they keep developing so rapidly, we don't really know what the demand will be in 5-10
00:36years, so how we can prepare for this specific knowledge, and clearly the education systems
00:42are not prepared for this.
00:44The challenge is enormous.
00:45Nearly 4 out of 5 SMEs are struggling to find qualified workers in the EU.
00:51The Commission has identified 42 occupation shortages, particularly in the construction,
00:57transport and health sectors.
00:59One, it is because of the demography.
01:02The EU is going to lose 1 million workers each year until 2050.
01:08That's a fact.
01:10Second, there is a rapid change in the kind of skills that will be needed because of robotisation,
01:17because of AI, because of what's happening in different sectors.
01:22The education system, but also companies, have a role to play.
01:28The skills system has no single owner, so we have the development of skills, where we
01:33have the formal education system, which is responsible of course, but we have activities
01:40of continuous education that relies the responsibility with individuals and with employers to be
01:46trained continuously.
01:50The new EU roadmap recommends investing in education and training, promoting professional
01:55retraining, encouraging student and worker mobility, and improving the EU's attractiveness
02:00to foreign workers.
02:03For example, the Commission wants to strengthen the Skills Pact to support upgrading and retraining
02:08workers.