SkiLMeeT – Skills for labour markets in the green and digital transition

The project “SkiLMeeT: Skills for labour markets in the green and digital transition” aims to:

• produce sound indicators that help better understand the extent of skills mismatches and shortages,
• provide novel insights on the effects of specific drivers that lead to skills mismatches and shortages, and
• present viable pathways for reducing skills shortages and mismatches. The project focuses on the digital and green transitions and demographic change as drivers of skill shortages and gaps.

The Institute for Structural Research (IBS) leads the work package, which produces indicators on labour and skills shortages and mismatches (WP3). Key activities of IBS within the project framework include:

• Establishing stylised facts about the heterogeneity of skill levels and worker tasks in Europe
• Creating measures of occupational similarities and distances
• Analysing the role of digitalisation, globalisation, and supply factors as drivers of skill use at work
• Exploring the role of technological progress as a determinant of educational choices.

The project will provide new insights into the drivers of the skills gap in Europe and offer policy recommendations for closing the gap. SkiLMeeT employs an inter- and transdisciplinary approach, using various data sources, including innovative data sources derived from big data, conducting analyses and engaging in extensive consultations with stakeholders.

Project website: www.skilmeet.eu

The European Union funds the project.

The SkiLMeeT consortium’s proposal was one of 103 projects submitted to the Horizon Europe Researchand Innovation Actions call: Inclusiveness in times of change (HORIZON-CL2-2023-TRANSFORMATIONS-01).