European skills agenda

EU five-year plan to help individuals and businesses develop more and better skills and to put them to use, by:

  • strengthening sustainable competitiveness, as set out in the European Green Deal;
  • ensuring social fairness, putting into practice the first principle of the European Pillar of Social Rights: access to education, training and lifelong learning for everybody, everywhere in the EU;
  • building resilience to react to crises, based on the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Comment

The European skills agenda sets objectives to be achieved by 2025, based on well-established quantitative indicators:

  • participation of adults aged 25-64 in learning during the last 12 month: 50%;
  • participation of low-qualified adults 25-64 in learning during the last 12 months: 30%;
  • share of unemployed adults aged 25-64 with a recent learning experience: 20%;
  • share of adults aged 16-74 having at least basic digital skills: 70%.
Source

Based on European Commission, 2021f.

Related term(s)
Pact for skills