Making skills intelligence actionable - Understanding opportunities and challenges

From the beginning of January 2021, he has worked in the unit in charge of Vocational Education and Training and Apprenticeships. Among other things, he works on Skills intelligence and particularly the action on strengthening skills intelligence in the Skills Agenda. This includes a strand on how to build on work using big data done by Cedefop, and strengthening and disseminating skills intelligence to relevant stakeholders. This involves cooperating with other international organisation such as Cedefop, ETF, OECD, ILO, UNESCO etc.

He also works on Digital Skills, both in the context of the Skills Agenda and the link to other key European Commission initiatives, such as the Digital Education Action plan, the Digital Competence Framework and related frameworks, Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition and the Digital Europe Programme. He will also be working on supporting qualitative and effective digitalisation of VET provision through promoting the use of European competence frameworks and self-assessment tools.

He holds a B.A. Honours degree in Economics/Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and a “Certificat d’Études des Communautés Européennes” in European Integration from C.I.F.E. (Centre Internationale de Formation Européenne) in Munich.

Among other tasks she is responsible for the dissemination of Estonian LMSI to wide range of target groups – career counsellors, policy makers, higher and vocational education institutions, career seekers, wider public etc.
She has experience in PR world for more than 15 year, been working for Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, Erasmus Youth Programme Agency in Estonia etc. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from TalTech.

He has a master degree in quantitative and general economics and holds a Ph.d. in social sciences. As a researcher and project manager at the Dutch research centre for education and the labour market (ROA) Jasper led research projects on labour market issues, skills, employability and obsolescence of knowledge. He also worked on HRD and HRM, taking an economic perspective to human resources issues. Jasper started working for Cedefop in 2007. He led the centre’s early work on skill mismatch, coordinated the centre’s work on national VET systems and policies for several years, and led the centre’s skills governance work.

Besides his managerial tasks he is involved in several projects to enhance the connection between Education and the Labour Market.  He is a member of the Steering Committee National Project Labour Market Forecasting of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market. He’s also the initiator of a UWV-project in co-operation with SEO Economic Research to use graduate tracking for Career Guidance. Some further memberships are the focus group Studiekeuze123, the focus group Transition from Education to the Labour Market during Corona and since 2014 he is a member of the European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring.

Michel studied Business Economics at Zuyd Hogeschool  and Personnel Sciences at the University of Tilburg. He worked as a researcher one year for Personnel Sciences (University of Tilburg) and five years for the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (University of Maastricht). Since 1997 he works for  the Dutch Public Employment Service UWV, and his predecessors Arbeidsvoorziening and CWI.