Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition
A #HorizonEU project exploring how the digital & green transitions are changing the demand for #skills in the EU.
https://skilmeet.eu
- Thank you to everyone who joined SkiLMeeT’s stakeholder webinar today! 👏 Big thanks to our speakers Ronald Bachmann (RWI) and Monia El Faziki (SEA Europe) for excellent presentations, and to Vassil Kirov for moderating. 🌱💻
- 💻🪴Reminder: SkiLMeeT’s webinar on skills needs is tomorrow! 🕝 3 Feb 2026, 14:00–15:30 CET 📣 Ronald Bachmann (RWI) on job-to-job transitions, wages & job quality 📣 Monia El Faziki (SEA Europe) on shipbuilding skills gaps (LeaderSHIP) Register: bit.ly/3YV88G4
- Join us for SkiLMeeT’s first webinar of 2026: “The Future of Skills in the Context of the Twin Transition: Academic and Practitioner Insights” with Ronald Bachmann (@RWI Leibniz-Institut), Monia El Faziki (SEA Europe) Vassil Kirov (IPS-BAS). 🕝3 Feb 2026, 14:00–15:30 CET skilmeet.eu/invitation-t...
- 💥 📚 New SkiLMeeT paper maps job & occupational mobility across 18 European countries and links it to wages & job quality. Mobility in Europe is sizeable but uneven - women, older & low-skilled workers are less mobile and more exposed to involuntary moves. Read: bit.ly/49HNtey
- 💥 📚 A new SkiLMeeT policy brief is out. Our researchers argue that job-to-job moves can help tackle skills shortages by steering workers toward occupations with better prospects, pay, and working conditions. Read: bit.ly/45bS5aj
- 📨 SkiLMeeT Newsletter No. 6 is out! As 2025 wraps up, we look back on the last few months of work. Inside: 🔍 Sofia Midterm Conference highlights 🎓 Takeaways from 3 webinars 📊 New European Labour Market Dashboard 🤝 Policy engagement updates 📄 New paper: Expertise at Work Read here: bit.ly/3Y1zCte
- Thank you to everyone who joined today’s SkiLMeeT webinar on the European Labour Market Dashboard 🙌 A special thanks to our presenters Xavier Pinho and Sadegh Shahmohammadi from TNO for an excellent demonstration!
- We’re kicking off our SkiLMeeT webinar now! ⛷️📊 Xavier Pinho & Sadegh Shahmohammadi (TNO) are live, demonstrating the European Labour Market Dashboard and what it reveals about skills & career transitions across Europe.
- 🚨 Reminder: our SkiLMeeT webinar is tomorrow! Tune in as Xavier Pinho & Sadegh Shahmohammadi (TNO) showcase the European Labour Market Dashboard, helping to explore skills and likely career moves across countries. 📅 Tomorrow – Wednesday, 3 December ⏰ 15:00–16:00 CET 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4oP9LQK
- Don’t forget to register! ⛷️📊 Join us for a SkiLMeeT research webinar where Xavier Pinho and Sadegh Shahmohammadi (TNO) will demonstrate the European Labour Market Dashboard for cross-country skills & career transitions. 📅 3 Dec, 15:00–16:00 CET 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4oP9LQK
- Join us for a SkiLMeeT research webinar where our researchers Xavier Pinho and Sadegh Shahmohammadi from TNO will show the European Labour Market Dashboard a data-driven tool enabling cross-country comparisons of skills and career transitions. 📅 3 Dec, 15:00–16:00 CET 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4oP9LQK
- 🎓 Thank you to @armiano.bsky.social and everyone who joined today’s SkiLMeeT webinar! It was great discussion! See you at the next webinar!
- We’re kicking off now! @armiano.bsky.social talks about “Understanding Occupational Mobility” — how workers think about skill transfer, opportunities across occupations, earnings vs retraining/licensing, and exposure to automation, AI & the green transition.
- Have you registered for this week’s SkiLMeeT webinar on occupational mobility with armiano.bsky.social? In this webinar, he will explore preliminary findings on how employees perceive and respond to opportunities for changing occupations. 🗓️13 Nov, 15:00–16:00 CET 🔗https://bit.ly/4nEsE7Q
- We invite you to a SkiLMeeT research webinar with @armiano.bsky.social (Univ. of Naples Federico II), who will present preliminary findings from his paper “Understanding Occupational Mobility”, co-authored with @caspalh.bsky.social (IAB). 📅 13 Nov, 15:00–16:00 CET 🔗 bit.ly/4nEsE7Q
- 🎓 Thank you to Piotr Lewandowski (IBS) and all who joined today’s SkiLMeeT research webinar! Great discussion on how technology shapes educational choices and the next generation’s path into the labour market. See you on the next webinar!
- 🎬 We’re kicking off our SkiLMeeT research webinar with Piotr Lewandowski (IBS)! He’s presenting a paper co-authored with @karol-madon.bsky.social (IBS) on how robotisation influences teens’ educational choices, using new evidence from Norway.
- 📢 Have you registered for tomorrow’s SkiLMeeT research webinar? 🤖 Piotr Lewandowski (IBS) will present new evidence from Norway on how robotisation influences teens’ education choices. 📅 28 Oct, 14:00 - 15:00 CET Register here: bit.ly/3Wf3KQM
- Teens, robots, and career decisions - what’s the link? Find out in our SkiLMeeT research webinar with Piotr Lewandowski (IBS). 📅 Next week, Tue 28 Oct, 14:00–15:00 CET 🔗 bit.ly/3Wf3KQM
- 🤖 How does robotisation shape teens’ educational choices? Join us for a SkiLMeeT research webinar with Piotr Lewandowski (IBS), who will present new evidence from Norway on how exposure to robots influences students’ vocational paths. 📅 28 Oct, 14:00 - 15:00 CET 🔗 bit.ly/3Wf3KQM
- 🔍Today, SkiLMeeT researchers Linda Koopmans and Sadegh Shahmohammadi (TNO) presented project at the European Commission’s Education & Skills - Horizon Europe Feedback to Policy event. They showed some of our preliminary findings and discussed policy recommendations. Thanks to all presenters!
- At ELMI 2025 in Warsaw, our researcher @karol-madon.bsky.social(IBS) presented a preliminary SkiLMeeT paper co-authored by Piotr Lewandowski on how automation shapes Norwegian students’ choices. Key points: • Robot exposure shapes study choices • Sons of exposed workers avoid vulnerable tracks
- At our final conference session, Vassil Kirov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) and Magdalena Parcheva (University of Economics–Varna) examine construction digital-skill needs, and entrepreneurial competences.
- At SkiLMeeT Conference Session 9, veescudero.bsky.social (ilo.org) looks at how skills mediate the impact of digital technologies, while Elena Stoykova (Sofia University) examines skill trajectories and labour market integration of sociology graduates.
- SkiLMeeT Conference Session 8 features Najada Fejmi (liserinlux.bsky.social), Piotr Lewandowski (IBS) & Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) examining how AI reshapes skill demand, how skills supply adjusts to technological change & how workers' AI exposure differs across countries
- In Session 7 of the SkiLMeeT Conference, Francesco Berlingieri (@ec.europa.eu), Mina Kostova (IPS-BAS), and Patrice Jalette (@umontreal.ca) discussed job quality in the context of the pandemic, healthcare workers’ situation, and the impact of labour shortages on working conditions.
- Mariya Mincheva (Bulgarian Industrial Association) presents a policy keynote at the SkiLMeeT Conference, “Skills: A Key Currency of Competitiveness – The Employer’s Perspective”, offering a Bulgarian industry view on skills for competitiveness and innovation.
- Session 6 on firms at the SkiLMeeT Conference is live. Luisa Braunschweig (@iabnews.bsky.social), Elena Fumagalli (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) & Elena Grinza (University of Turin) discuss how firms shape inequality, bias in hiring, and productivity effects of climate change.
- At Session 5 of the SkiLMeeT Conference, Hannah Liepmann (ilo.org), Mirjam Fitzthum (rwi.bsky.social) & Dimitar Nikoloski (St. Kliment Ohridski Univ) discuss the demand for green skills in emerging economies, the challenges of skills mismatches, and the regional dimensions of the green transition.
- At Session 3, Roy Peijen (TNO), Ludo Visschers (uc3m.es), Rumiana Stoilova & Petya Ilieva (IPS-BAS) explore challenges in worker mobility, including re-employability & re-skilling of displaced workers, reallocating of workers from declining to growing jobs & the role of informal adult education
- Now in Session 4 at the SkiLMeeT Conference: Ronald Bachmann (@rwi.bsky.social), @cesarbarreto.bsky.social (@oecd-ocde.bsky.social) & Elena Magrini (@lightcast.bsky.social) present their papers on green jobs, wages, energy transition costs, and digital-green skill needs.
- We’re starting off the second SkiLMeeT Conference keynote. Simone Rosini (DG EMP) presents "European Skills and Labour Shortages. An Update on the Evidence Available and Policies Put in Place at EU level". Join us live on YT: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmE...
- 📗SkiLMeeT Conference Session 1 "Skills in the green transition" is underway: fedfabfrat.bsky.social of FEEM, Giulia Santangelo of cedefop.europa.eu & Daniele Gasparini of maastrichtu.bsky.social are discussing the impact of climate change and policies on the workforce, green skill demand & supply.
- In SkiLMeeT Conference Session 2, @davidmarguerit.bsky.social (@liserinlux.bsky.social), Andreas Fridolin Bühler (UZH) and @karol-madon.bsky.social (IBS) discuss educational & occupational choices, AI & climate awareness.
- We’re kicking off the SkiLMeeT Conference with a @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University) keynote on “Firm Organization and Worker Outcomes: The Role of Occupational Specialization”. Join us live on YT: bit.ly/4pBQFhP
- 🎉 Our SkiLMeeT Midterm Conference, “Workers, Firms & Skills in the Digital & Green Transition”, is almost here! 2–3 Oct 2025 - Sofia 32 presentations - 10 sessions Headline keynote: @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University, Toronto) 📅 Final agenda: skilmeet.eu/our-2025-con...
- 🚨 We’re excited to bring the Bulgarian employers’ perspective to the SkiLMeeT Conference! Our keynote speaker, Mariya Mincheva of the Bulgarian Industrial Association will present Skills: A Key Currency of Competitiveness – The Employer’s Perspective 📍 Sofia | 🗓 3 Oct | 🕘 9:15 am EEST
- 🚨 We're happy to announce the policy keynote of the SkiLMeeT Midterm Conference! On 2 Oct, Simone Rosini (DG EMP) will present: “European Skills and Labour Shortages. An Update on the Evidence Available and Policies put in Place at EU level” 📍 Sofia | 2:00 pm EEST | Watch live: bit.ly/4pBQFhP
- 🚨Keynote update for the SkiLMeeT Conference! @cortesecon.bsky.social will present: “Firm Organization and Worker Outcomes: The Role of Occupational Specialization” 📺 The keynote will be streamed live on our YouTube channel - 2 October 9:30 am EEST: bit.ly/468PYoG
- 🚨The SkiLMeeT Conference programme is out! Explore how skills, green & digital transitions are reshaping labour markets. 🗓 2–3 Oct 2025 | Sofia Keynote: @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University) Policy keynotes: Simone Rosini (DG EMP), Mariya Mincheva (BIA) 📄 Register: bit.ly/4fTQOc5
- 📨 SkiLMeeT Newsletter 5 is live! 🍂 Midterm Conference (Sofia, 2–3 Oct) – full programme 🎫 Webinar recaps: AGI & policy, digitalisation & vocational training, skills for the twin transition 🌍 On the road: Our contribution to debates in Berlin & Łódź and the WeLaR Conference 🔗http://bit.ly/487ZCJn
- Check out the SkiLMeeT report offering a critical overview of the current state of knowledge on Europe’s skills challenges. It covers definitions, drivers (tech, green, migration, etc), and solutions (reskilling, education, mobility). 📖 Read here: bit.ly/3HK3KEi
- Thanks to all the researchers and industry representatives who joined the SkiLMeeT webinar today. Huge thanks to Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage and Chiara Foglio for their great presentations. Looking forward to what’s next!
- Chiara Foglio from @ecegbrussels.bsky.social is sharing insights from the ChemSkills project, which aims to develop training and curricula to close the skills gap and support the chemical industry’s green & digital transitions.
- 🚀 We’re kicking off the SkiLMeeT webinar “The future of skills in the context of the twin transition”! Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social opens with his insights on automation and how education can help workers adapt in the digital age and time of AI.
- ⏳ Just one day to go before the SkiLMeeT Webinar: The future of skills in the context of the twin transition! 🗓️ 5 June |🕒15:00 - 16:30 CET Don’t miss the discussion on automation, training & skills needs in industry at the time of green & digital transitions. Read more here: bit.ly/4dksvTc
- Don’t forget to register for the SkiLMeeT webinar “The Future of Skills in the Context of the Twin Transition.” 🗓️ 5 June 2025, 15:00–16:30 CET Hear from Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (Utrecht University) & Chiara Foglio ecegbrussels.bsky.social. Register now: bit.ly/4dksvTc
- We’re excited to participate in this SkillsPULSE event and present the SkiLMeeT approach to identifying skills shortages and gaps using online job vacancy data and other big data sources.
- 💻🪴How green & digital transitions reshape skills? Join SkiLMeeT webinar on 5 June, 15:00–16:30 CET. Our speakers: 📣Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (Utrecht University) on automation risks & education 📣Chiara Foglio (@ecegbrussels.bsky.social) on skills in chemical sector Learn more: bit.ly/4dksvTc
- Today's SkiLMeeT & @liser.lu seminar with Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (Utrecht University) showed how technology reshapes German vocational training, shifting curricula toward non-automatable, digital & social skills. These changes raise wages for workers with new skills but reduce them for older ones.
