Labour market

Teachers and trainers are the backbone of high-quality vocational education and training (VET). To deliver excellence and care for inclusion, they need continuous opportunities to update their technical, pedagogical and transversal competences. Cedefop supports the implementation of European strategic objectives for accessible, high-quality professional development for all VET teachers and trainers.

Cedefop’s European skills and jobs survey (ESJS) has revealed that about 45% of EU adult workers believe that their skills can either be better developed or utilised at work. European policy that mitigates skill mismatch can thus be conducive to raising productivity and improving worker well-being.

But better matching a country’s skill supply to the needs of its economy is a dynamic process that requires policies to increase education and training responsiveness to labour market needs. Mitigating skill mismatch in an era of fast-paced digitalisation, AI and automation requires a well-developed skills anticipation infrastructure in countries and an integrative approach to skills governance.