Digital skills post-covid19 - Shifting gears in the digital transition

Jiri also contributes to Cedefop’s Digitalisation and future of work project and works on connecting of outcomes of various Cedefop’s projects in agency’s skills intelligence products and visualisations. His prior working experience includes an assessment of labour market outcomes of skill recognition systems for the ILO and during past 15 years he has been involved in many projects focusing on skills and labour market analysis across Europe.

He coordinates the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform project. The Platfrom will be launched in May/June 2021 and it will become an online one-stop shop with information, data, funding and networking opportunities for anyone interested in the topic. The aim is to connect all the National coalitions and other stakeholders and to help them take and coordinate actions that will bridge the digital skills gap in Europe. Jakub has a broad experience in community management and communication. He studied Political science at the Charles University in Prague. He worked for the main Czech TV news channel (CT24) as a reporter. He joined the European Commission in 2014 and he built an active and engaged social media community around the Digital Single Market. In 2018 he joined the digital skills team where he contributes to the policy actions and is the Commission’s country desk for digital economy in the Czech republic.

His proudest achievement is the development of two waves of the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey. He has been scientific advisor and author on skills anticipation and skill mismatch for the European Commission, the World Economic Forum, ILO and the Greek Ministry of Labour and has been regular instructor for the ILO-ITC. He has represented Cedefop at high-level international conferences in Europe, USA, Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Before joining Cedefop he held posts at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cyprus and worked for the Bank of Greece and HM Treasury. He has been invited Professor at the Universita Degli Studi Roma TRE and Visiting Research Scholar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is Honorary Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen Business School and IZA Research Fellow. He holds an M.Phil from the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College) and a D.Phil from the Scottish Graduate Program in Economics. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals of education and economic science (e.g. Oxford Review of Education, Economica, Journal of Economic Surveys, Research in Labor Economics, Education Economics, International Labour Review).

An empirical labour economist by training and data scientist by interest, his research interests include the impact of innovation and digital technology on the world of work. Before joining the JRC, he researched labour the digital transformation of the labour market at the Italian institute of Public Policy Studies (INAPP) and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.

He is involved in the design and development of the "Real-Time Labour Market Information System on Skill Requirements" for CEDEFOP. He collaborates with the University of Milano-Bicocca as a lecturer at the Master Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics.