Joint Research Seminar on open job vacancy analysis

Online, 26 May, 10:00-12:30 CEST.

This event will bring together different leading Horizon-funded projects working on skills gaps and shortages, to discuss methodological and data challenges in open job vacancy analysis and how web-based labour market intelligence can support skills policy development. The seminar will feature researchers from these projects as well as scene-setting presentations from EU institutions.

AGENDA

10:00 – 10:10 SCENE SETTING
Liga Baltina, Project coordinator, Head of Labour Market and Skills Research, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini

10:10 – 12:15 | SESSION MODERATED BY
Ewa Kusidel, Associate professor, Department of Spatial Econometrics,   University of Lodz

10:10 – 11:00 LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN WEB-BASED MARKET INTELLIGENCE
– “European Web Intelligence Hub (WIH) OJA data: characteristics, limitations, potential, and future developments”. Fernando Reis, Big data statistician, European Commission
– “Using OJAs to detect occupations in imbalance”. Joanna Napierala, Expert in skills intelligence and foresight, Cedefop

11:00 – 12:15 METHODOLOGICAL AND DATA CHALLENGES IN OPEN JOB VACANCY ANALYSIS AND HOW RESULTS TRANSLATE INTO SKILLS POLICY

– SkillsPULSE Project
”Assessing Lightcast data for skills analysis”. Magdalena Brudz, Assistant professor, University of Lodz
”Measuring potential skill shortages with OJA data: strengths and challenges”. Elisa Staffa, Research Analyst, ESRI

– SkiLMeeT Project
“The Data Processing Pipeline for OJV – Methods and Challenges”. Najada Feimi, Data scientist, Liser.

– “Skill complementarity in Artificial Intelligence domain: evidence from Online Job Vacancies”. Irene Spada, Assistant professor, University of Pisa

12:15-12:25 KEY TAKEAWAYS
Simone Rosini, Socio-economic analyst, DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission

12:25-12:30 NEXT STEPS
Liga Baltina, Project coordinator, Head of Labour Market and Skills Research, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini