Cedefop

Jiri also contributes to Cedefop’s Digitalisation and future of work project and works on connecting of outcomes of various Cedefop’s projects in agency’s skills intelligence products and visualisations. His prior working experience includes an assessment of labour market outcomes of skill recognition systems for the ILO and during past 15 years he has been involved in many projects focusing on skills and labour market analysis across Europe.

He has a PhD in Economic Sociology from the University of Salamanca, where he worked several years as a researcher and lecturer. Previously, he also worked as a researcher in Eurofound (Dublin), participating and coordinating large European research projects, such as the European Working Conditions Survey or the European Jobs Monitor. He has published many policy-oriented and academic papers on job quality, occupational structures, technical change and socio-economic inequalities.

He coordinates the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform project. The Platfrom will be launched in May/June 2021 and it will become an online one-stop shop with information, data, funding and networking opportunities for anyone interested in the topic. The aim is to connect all the National coalitions and other stakeholders and to help them take and coordinate actions that will bridge the digital skills gap in Europe. Jakub has a broad experience in community management and communication. He studied Political science at the Charles University in Prague. He worked for the main Czech TV news channel (CT24) as a reporter. He joined the European Commission in 2014 and he built an active and engaged social media community around the Digital Single Market. In 2018 he joined the digital skills team where he contributes to the policy actions and is the Commission’s country desk for digital economy in the Czech republic.

His main tasks are related to machine learning modelling, labour market analyses, and the design of big data pipelines to process large datasets of online job vacancies. In collaboration with the University of Milano-Bicocca, he took part in many research projects related to the labour market intelligence systems. He collaborates with the University of Milano-Bicocca as a lecturer at the Master Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics and with the University of Bergamo as a lecturer in Computer Engineering.

An empirical labour economist by training and data scientist by interest, his research interests include the impact of innovation and digital technology on the world of work. Before joining the JRC, he researched labour the digital transformation of the labour market at the Italian institute of Public Policy Studies (INAPP) and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.

He is involved in the design and development of the "Real-Time Labour Market Information System on Skill Requirements" for CEDEFOP. He collaborates with the University of Milano-Bicocca as a lecturer at the Master Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics.