Skills intelligence is a key enabler of decision making on skills and jobs for individuals, organisations, cities, regions, and countries. But what does it take to make skills intelligence relevant and efficient, and how can it best support decision-makers?
Building on over a decade of experience in developing and disseminating skills and labour market analysis, Cedefop presented its improved skills intelligence tool, which brings together various strands of the Agency’s analytical and research work. With this skills intelligence tool Cedefop aims to provide better and more synthetic evidence on current and future skill and labour market trends, using narrative-driven visualisations and concise thematic articles.
In this virtual get-together, Cedefop invited key stakeholders and users of skills intelligence to discuss the opportunities for moving skills intelligence forward, and reflect on challenges in analysing, providing, and using skills and labour market data and qualitative information.
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Agenda
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| 11.00–11.05 | Welcome and introduction by Jasper van Loo, Department Coordinator at Cedefop |
| 11.05–11.30 | Making skills intelligence actionable Stelina Chatzichristou and Jiri Branka, Cedefop experts |
| 11.30–11.40 | Questions & Answers |
| 11.40–12.20 | Panel discussion moderated by Stelina Chatzichristou and Ernesto Villalba-Garcia, Cedefop experts Skills intelligence from the users' perspective
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| 12.20–12.30 | Final remarks and wrap-up |
Speakers
 Julie Beaufils is the Secretary General of EuropeOn, the European electrical contractors’ association since 2020. Founded in 1954, EuropeOn is the voice of the professionals who “switch Europe ON” by operating electrical systems in buildings and infrastructures, including rooftop solar panels, energy management systems and electric vehicles’ charging points. Julie is also in charge of the Skills4Climate campaign, raising awareness on the shortages in skilled professionals and the need to fiercely promote technical education, an issue that will considerably weigh on Europe’s ability to deliver the energy transition. EuropeOn is currently chairing the Electrification Alliance network. |
His prior working experience includes an assessment of labour market outcomes of skill recognition systems for the ILO and during the past 15 years, he has been involved in many projects focusing on skills and labour market analysis across Europe. |
She is leading Cedefop’s research on jobs, skills and vocational education and training (VET) for the green transition and sectoral skills developments. View moreStelina coordinates the skills intelligence and foresight team, and contributes to the Centre’s research on skills anticipation and skills governance. Before joining Cedefop, Stelina worked for almost a decade as a researcher and policy analyst in the private sector. In that capacity, she has worked on and managed projects on national and EU comparative analysis on VET, skills and entrepreneurship. |
View moreHer research that has a strong international orientation revolves around career guidance practice and public policy development with a special interest on the design and use or existing and emerging technologies in career guidance. She has actively contributed to development of evidence-based training in the field. Her involvement extends to various projects focusing on skills systems. |
She has participated in various activities of the Italian Chambers of commerce's network related to VET, green and digital skills, entrepreneurship and sustainability through initiatives and projects at national and European level. She is member of the Skills Committee at Eurochambres, the European Chambers's association representing the voice for the broad business community at EU level. View moreIn recent years she has been focussing on skills and sustainability for the Tourism ecosystem, fostering participation of Unioncamere and the Italian Chambers, to initiatives related to the Pact for skills and as a member of the Commission's Expert Group "Together for Tourism" (T4T) and promoting activities of the Italian chambers' network Mirabilia. |
He currently coordinates the labour market and skills analysis work of the agency. He is also part of the team investigating EU skills trends using online job vacancies. He has a master degree in quantitative and general economics and holds a Ph.d. in social sciences. |
He is currently responsible for Cedefop’s work on validation of non-formal and informal learning. He has worked, together with the Commission, on the monitoring, implementation and evaluation of the 2012 Council Recommendation on validation, as well as on several updates of the European inventory of validation and the European guidelines. View moreErnesto has served in different committees and working groups of the European Commission, the OECD, and UNESCO. He holds a PhD in International and comparative education from Stockholm University and is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Education. |
Topics of interest are Lifelong Guidance, Knowledge & Competence of Counsellors, Information in Counselling Processes, HRD and Career Counselling, Digitalization in the field of Guidance, Service and Policy development in Germany and Europe. 2004-2016 Researcher and assistant professor at Heidelberg University. View moreMember of the Board of IAEVG, Cedefop CareersNet core expert-member for Germany, and member of “National Fora for Career Guidance, nfb” (Germany) |
Jiri Branka is a Cedefop expert in the Department for VET and Skills. He leads the Skills Intelligence project and works on connecting of outcomes of various Cedefop's projects in the agency's skills intelligence products and visualizations. 
Stelina Chatzichristou is an expert in the Department for VET and skills at Cedefop, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training.
Jaana Kettunen is Professor of lifelong guidance at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) of the University of Jyväskylä. Currently, she is the President of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG). She is a nominated national expert for Cedefop´s CareersNet network of independent experts, and member of its Advisory group.
Diana Marcello is Senior Policy Advisor for Skills at Unioncamere Europa.
Jasper Van Loo is coordinator of Cedefop’s department for VET and Skills.
Ernesto Villalba-Garcia has worked at Cedefop since 2011.
Peter C. Weber, since 2016 Professor for Career Guidance & Counselling at University of Applied Labour Studies Mannheim. Research in Career Guidance/Counselling.
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