Skills Portability Initiative SME Panel

The Skills Portability Initiative aims to make it easier for people and companies to identify, understand, and use skills and qualifications across the EU. It will cover qualifications obtained both within EU Member States and in non-EU countries. This is key to improving the EU’s competitiveness. 

This consultation seeks evidence and advice on the best ways to have qualifications or skills recognised across borders. For instance, verifiable digital credentials could make recognition and skills portability simpler, faster and more reliable.

The European Commission would like to hear your views and experiences on the barriers you currently face in cross-border recruitment in relation to skills and qualifications, particularly in the following areas:

• Understanding, trust and acceptance of skills and qualifications acquired in other EU Member States, including in non-regulated professions;
• Recognition procedures for EU citizens to access regulated professions;
• Recognition of qualifications and validation of skills for third-country nationals.

The results will feed into the Commission’s policy actions to improve the portability of skills and qualifications in the EU.

Please share your thoghts and submit your feedback till 25 March. To start the survey: click here.

Source: ec.europa.eu