High-level conference Skills For Industry Strategy 2030 Background document 19 & 20 June 2019 | Brussels https://skills4industry.eu #Skills4Industry TableTable of Contents of contents Background 3 Skills for Industry Strategy 2030 4 Key figures 6 Conference agenda 8 Speaker biographies 10 Day 2 22 2 Background Day 1 - Vision and solutions for a massive Day 2 – Mobilising Funding Programmes skills upgrade of the European workforce and Incentives to Scale-up Best Practices The rise of new advanced technologies such as The Member States and EU policies need to robotics, artificial intelligence are heavily develop and adapt their programmes and transforming the nature of jobs. According to incentives to better anticipate and cope with the OECD’s Future of Work 2018, 46% of jobs change and allow individuals and organisations are facing high risk of automation or substantial to acquire high-tech skills and provide the change. Routine tasks are increasingly economy with a larger talent pool. Education becoming automated, while newly created jobs and training systems in Europe need also to require different competences. High-tech skills react on these new demands and develop are lacking. appropriate training offers. Businesses are increasingly struggling to find The situation at national level and EU level has the right profiles to fill their job vacancies. been analysed as well as the potential synergies According to the 2019 PwC CEOs Survey, 79% between the different instruments with a view to of CEOs are worried about finding and hiring identify successful ones, i.e. best practices. employees with the right skills they require to These should be scaled up to become even more succeed. successful. They should also serve as a guide for better focusing and improving funding This leads to an ever-growing skills gap that programmes and incentives. risks slowing down future growth, and exasperating social disparities. It calls for a Objectives large-scale effort to upskill and reskill the workforce. According to the WEF’s Future of • Skills are at the heart of the EU industrial policy; Jobs Report, 54% of employees will require significant upskilling and/or reskilling by 2022. • EU skills for industry strategy 2030 A skills paradigm must be developed to meet vision: turning Europe into a centre of excellence for skills; the demands of industry by having skills at the heart of the industrial policy strategy. • The transformation of EU industries and the growing skills gap: speed of change, Following the EU Industry Days and the Future major opportunities, challenges and policy of Work high-level events, this new conference issues; will convene business executives, policy • Bridging the skills gap: education & makers, academics and education and training training responding to the needs of the stakeholders to foster dialogue as well as to labour market and upskilling the agree on priorities and concrete measures, in workforce; order to facilitate the implementation of • Concrete actionable recommendations and upskilling/reskilling strategies. policy measures. 3 Skills for Industry Strategy 2030 Vision for the strategy The Skills for Industry Strategy 2030 intends to to revolutionise the way education and trainings foster the development of skills for excellence, have been provided. One of its main goals is prosperity and personal development. It aims to therefore to encourage a switch from the ‘Life mobilise resources at the local, regional, Long Employment’ towards the ‘Life Long national and EU level collectively to make skills Employability’ concept by making individuals an opportunity for everyone. It further aspires to responsible for their own skills development. raise widespread momentum by inspiring all To operationalise the Skills for Industry key players to take part in collectively designing Strategy 2030, new upskilling solutions need to and implementing powerful skills strategies and be developed and implemented. All individuals thus turn the potential challenges brought by should benefit from lifelong learning digital transformation and industrial opportunities, as well as from agile and modern modernisation into opportunities. education methods using tech-based tools and The Skills for Industry Strategy 2030 wants to modern teaching methods. The key introduce a paradigm shift to the entire characteristics of the Strategy are illustrated ecosystem of workforce planning, education below. and training provision for skills development; Figure1. Key Characteristics of the Skills for Industry Strategy 2030 Vision 4 Modules – policy recommendations To facilitate the operationalisation of the Skills Incentives – Encourage different for Industry Strategy 2030, a set of policy stakeholder groups to join the efforts recommendations regrouped by modules are described in line with each of the under developments. These modules serve to modules defined in the Toolbox and to guide different stakeholder groups on assume specific roles and developing and implementing their own skill responsibilities with regard to the strategies aligned with their Industrial, RD&I implementation of an effective skill and Education, and RIS3 Strategies. strategy at the territorial level. At its core, the policy recommendations Accelerated world-class curriculum – encourage the development of forward-looking, To make youth fit for the labour market dynamic, interactive, multi-stakeholder driven and successfully secure employment, and agile upskilling initiatives that leverage on real-time AI-based labour market assessments the traditional education and training and foresight tools for evidence-based decision- systems need to be reviewed. making. Industry-led training infrastructures The nine modules below have been envisioned. – Promote and develop state-of-the-art Each module and potential related policy training infrastructures which provide recommendation will be discussed during the innovative training methodologies and Conference. systems, supported by and aligned with Leadership & Governance – Provide private entities needs. an overarching vision and governance tools including measurable objectives Funding (EU/ national/ on the horizon of 2030. regional/ private) – mobilise significant amounts of public and Skills Strategy – Support private and public authorities at different levels to private funding that would serve the design their own Skills Strategy linked development of new skills for to Industrial, RD&I and Education, industry in the short, medium and long Economic Development Strategies. term. Quality-led EU-wide VET – Adult Talent Detection and Nurturing – To learning needs to be increasingly ensure the development of a strong encouraged/facilitated and over-skilling talent pool in Europe, talent needs to be limited. nurtured and encouraged once detected. Communication – mobilise all key Flexible and tailored education/training stakeholders through an effective programmes are necessary to allow communication campaign that will highlight the ‘Return-on-Engagement’ advanced talents to progress at a faster for their involvement and investment. pace and to ensure their continued growth. 5 Key figures The changing economy The global economy and society, including the European industry, are undergoing a digital transformation, with AI and other advanced technologies being the main drivers of this change. Technologies by proportion of companies likely to adopt them by 2022 (projected) User and entity big data analytics 85% App- and web-enabled markets 75% Internet of things 75% Machine learning 73% Cloud computing 72% Digital trade 59% Augmented and virtual reality 58% Encryption 54% New materials 52% Source: World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs Report 2018. The changing workplace As a consequence of these transformations, the As more technical tasks will increasingly be labour market is also expected to change. operated by automated processes, a Although some jobs will become obsolete due to complementary set of analytical, creative and automation, the inclusion of these technologies social skills will be needed. Advanced digital will also create new jobs as well as augment skills will become an imperative in technology- current ones. It is estimated that 14% of jobs in intensive sectors, while employees are already the OECD countries are highly automatable. expected to have at least a basic digital - Human-performed information and data processing: proficiency. in 2018 53% 38% in 2022 - Human-performed complex and technical activities: Analytical Problem Creativity skills solving in 2018 66% 54% in 2022 - Human-performed physical and manual work: Continuous Communication Digital in 2018 69% learning and social skills skills 56% in 2022 Source: World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs Report 2018. Source: OECD, Skills Outlook 2019. 6 The skills gap As the nature of work changes, there is an urgent need to reskill the workforce that is becoming redundant. Moreover, adequate upskilling is needed for jobs that will be augmented by technology. of EU firms report lack of of EU manufacturing firms 42% skilled workers as the main 79% report lacking workers with challenge to face in 2019 the right skills Source: EUROCHAMBRES, Economic Survey 2019. Source: EIB, Investment Survey 2018/2019. 71% 35% 53% of EU workers Of Europeans Of EU enterprises that tried need some level of don’t have basic to recruit ICT specialists digital skills digital skills had hard-to-fill vacancies Source: CEDEFOP, Insights into skill shortages and skill mismatch . Source: