Welcome to STAS

Antonio Ranieri manages a team of European experts investigating skills trends and changes in the worlds of work and support the development and implementation of the Union policy in the field of vocational education and training. The Department work encompasses a wide range of research and policy analysis in two Cedefop strategic areas of operation, namely skills and labour market and learning and employability.

Jasper Van Loo is coordinator of Cedefop’s department for VET and Skills.

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.

Pier Paolo Angelini is an expert in the Department for VET and Skills at Cedefop, currently engaged on projects and strands of work on short-term anticipation of skills, new European skills forecast, and VET for adults. As a methodologist by training, with four years of experience at Cedefop and a background in research and consulting for public and private national and international organizations, Pier Paolo leverages his expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods to inform evidence-based policy decisions.

Madalina is leading research in the Economic and Social Policy area at Cambridge Econometrics (Belgium). She is leading the the Cedefop Skill Forecast consortium and lead the team developing the STAS.

She holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in economics from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, as well as a PhD in Agri-Environmental Economics from University of Kent.

Takaaki Kizu is a Skills Development Officer at the International Labour Organization (ILO).

He is part of the Skills for the Future of Work team of the ILO SKILLS Branch, and currently coordinates the Branch’s work on scenario-based occupational projections and skills taxonomy.

He also contributes to the Branch’s work on sectoral approach to skills needs anticipation, and is a facilitator of skills foresight workshops, serving low- and middle-income countries.

Irene Mandl joined ELA in September 2021 as the Head of Information and EURES Unit. She holds Master’s degrees in international business administration (with specialisation in marketing and organisational planning) and in business and law (with specialisation in HR management).

Before joining ELA, she worked in policy-oriented socioeconomic research in the fields of employment and labour market, as well as entrepreneurship and industry analysis. Most recently, she was Head of the research unit ‘Employment’ at the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions where she was leading the cross-European research on labour market developments (including new forms of work and employment and the future of work, digitalisation, climate change, restructuring and related public policy approaches) and topics at the intersection of employment and entrepreneurship (such as job creation, workplace practices, small and medium-sized enterprises, business start-ups and scale-ups and internationalisation, including HR management in international businesses). 

Team Leader, Skills for the Twin Transition in the Unit for Vocational Education and Training, Cedefop.
Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission

Within the unit for VET, Michael mainly works on supporting the development of skills for the digital and green transition, in the context of the key European Commission skills initiatives, such as the Skills Agenda, Digital Education Action plan and tools, such as the Digital Competence Framework and SELFIE (WBL). This also includes work on digitalisation of VET and provision of digital skills in VET, and increasingly on the impact and opportunities of AI on VET and skills. He has also been working on skills intelligence, how to build on work done by CEDEFOP and disseminating skills intelligence to relevant stakeholders.