EU CONFERENCE "Re-Thinking Europe’s Skill Needs: Reflections Following the European Year of Skills"

EU CONFERENCE

“Re-Thinking Europe’s Skill Needs: Reflections Following the European Year of Skills”

29 October, 2024 (9:30-18:00 CET)

The Building Hotel, Via Montebello, 126 – 00185 Rome, Italy

Join us in Rome for a day of insightful discussions and reflections on the skill needs in Europe. This in-person event, which will mark the official launch of the book “Re-Thinking Europe’s Skill Needs: Reflections Following the European Year of Skills”, will bring together experts and professionals to explore how we can tackle the skill needs in today’s ever-changing world.

Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation and contribute to shaping the future of skills in Europe!

Note: Simultaneous translation will be provided throughout the conference in both Italian-English and English-Italian.

Participation is free, upon previous online registration. Deadline for registration: October 25, 2024

AGENDA

Tuesday, 29 October, 2024

09:30-10:00 Welcome coffee and registration

10:00-10:15 Welcome

10:15-11:00 Keynotes

11:00-12:30 Launch of the skills book and experts’ panel “Tackling labour shortages, green jobs, and AI-driven workforce transformation”

12:30-13:30 Experts’ roundtable “Measuring labour and skill shortages in Europe and their social and economic impact”

13:30-15:00 Networking lunch

15:00-16:15 Interactive sessions on the book’s themes with the authors:

– Labour or skills shortages?
– Honing in on specific skill needs
– Effective and fair skill infrastructures in Europe

16:15-17:45 Policy roundtable “Skills for a sustainable future. Italy”

17:45-18:00 Final conclusions of the day

18:00 Networking cocktail

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SPEAKERS

Annamaria Simonazzi

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

President

Manuelita Mancini

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

Director

Giancarlo Dente

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

Coordinator of the Policy Evaluation and Human Capital Area

Liga Baltina

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

Head of the Labour Market & Skills Research Unit. Coordinator of SkillsPULSE

Glenda Quintini

OECD

Head of Skills and Future Readiness Division

Antonio Bonardo

World Employment Confederation, WEC-Europe

Vice President

Terence Hogarth

University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research

Professor

Lukasz Arendt

University of Lodz

Professor in the Department of Economic Policy

Eamonn Davern

Independent Employment Services Expert

Matteo Sgarzi

Centre d’Etudes et des Recherches sur les Qualifications (CEREQ)

Head of Mission International Relations

Giuseppe Ciccarone

Sapienza University in Rome

Vice Rector

Seamus McGuinness

Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin

Research Professor and the Research Area Co-ordinator for labour market research

Irene Mandl

European Labour Authority

Head of the Information and EURES Unit

Ilias Livanos

Cedefop

Expert at the Department for VET and Skills

Marcin Kocór

Jagiellonian University in Krakow

Professor

Maria Laura Fornaci

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

Coordinator of Future of Workers and Senior Expert

Iván Diego Rodríguez

Valnalon, Spain

Project Manager

Luca Dordit

University of Udine

Education and labour market policiy analyst

Roberto Angotti

INAPP

Head of the Adult Learning and Continuing Vocational Training Research Group
Italian National Coordinator of ReferNet

Ettore Russo

Anitec-Assinform

Senior Policy Advisor

Eleonora Pisicchio

Fondo For.Te.

General Director

Raffaele Saccà

Fondimpresa

Director Training Account and Territorial Articulations

Massimo Temussi

Ministry of labour and social policies

General Director of Active Labour Market Policies

Paola Vacchina

Forma

President

Giuseppe Forte

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

Head of Human Capital Research Unit

VENUE

The Building Hotel, Via Montebello, 126 – 00185 Rome, Italy

Organised by Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini in collaboration with the SkillsPULSE Project.

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