Skills shortages and emerging skills are central to today’s labour-market debates, yet the evidence behind these claims is often complex, fragmented, and interpreted in different ways. This informal networking event invites social partners to step back from solutions and reflect on how skills intelligence is understood, trusted, and used in practice.
Points for discussion:
- Common misunderstandings around “skills shortages”
- Which skills evidence is most (and least) trusted
- Risks of over-reacting to “emerging skills” narratives
- What makes skills data easier to question and contextualise
- What better-functioning skills intelligence would mean in practice for employers and workers
Opening words:
- Liga Baltina, Head of Labour Market and Skills Research, FGB Brussels office
Moderation:
- Prof. Terence Hogarth, University of Warwick
Introducing the theme: Snapshots from Horizon funded project “SkillsPulse: Skills – Predicting, Understanding, and Locating Shortages in Europe”
- Giulia Martorana and Marina Ferent, Researchers, Labour Market and Skills Research Unit, FGB Brussels office
Key interventions :
- Tatjana Babrauskienė, Lithuanian education and science trade union
- Beatrice Miano, World Employment Confederation
- Sabina Casini, BDA – German Employers
Participation upon registration
Knowledge Apéro is an after-work informal gathering with invited guests for sharing discussion and wine. Networks bring inspiration, multiplying the dimensions of value generated by individuals, institutions, and companies.
Please note that FGB’s Brussels office is located in a historic building which regrettably has some architectural barriers – namely steps at the entrance and very small lifts – and is not fully accessible to persons with reduced mobility.
