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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 2d

🔍Today, SkiLMeeT researchers Linda Koopmans and Sadegh Shahmohammadi (TNO) presented project at the European Commission’s Education & Skills - Horizon Europe Feedback to Policy event. They showed some of our preliminary findings and discussed policy recommendations.

Thanks to all presenters!

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 6d

At ELMI 2025 in Warsaw, our researcher @karol-madon.bsky.social(IBS) presented a preliminary SkiLMeeT paper co-authored by Piotr Lewandowski on how automation shapes Norwegian students’ choices.
Key points:
• Robot exposure shapes study choices
• Sons of exposed workers avoid vulnerable tracks

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 12d

At our final conference session, Vassil Kirov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) and Magdalena Parcheva (University of Economics–Varna) examine construction digital-skill needs, and entrepreneurial competences.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 12d

At SkiLMeeT Conference Session 9, veescudero.bsky.social (ilo.org) looks at how skills mediate the impact of digital technologies, while Elena Stoykova (Sofia University) examines skill trajectories and labour market integration of sociology graduates.

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 12d

SkiLMeeT Conference Session 8 features Najada Fejmi (liserinlux.bsky.social), Piotr Lewandowski (IBS) & Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) examining how AI reshapes skill demand, how skills supply adjusts to technological change & how workers' AI exposure differs across countries

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 12d

In Session 7 of the SkiLMeeT Conference, Francesco Berlingieri (@ec.europa.eu), Mina Kostova (IPS-BAS), and Patrice Jalette (@umontreal.ca) discussed job quality in the context of the pandemic, healthcare workers’ situation, and the impact of labour shortages on working conditions.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 12d

Mariya Mincheva (Bulgarian Industrial Association) presents a policy keynote at the SkiLMeeT Conference, “Skills: A Key Currency of Competitiveness – The Employer’s Perspective”, offering a Bulgarian industry view on skills for competitiveness and innovation.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 13d

Session 6 on firms at the SkiLMeeT Conference is live. Luisa Braunschweig (@iabnews.bsky.social), Elena Fumagalli (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) & Elena Grinza (University of Turin) discuss how firms shape inequality, bias in hiring, and productivity effects of climate change.

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 13d

At Session 5 of the SkiLMeeT Conference, Hannah Liepmann (ilo.org), Mirjam Fitzthum (rwi.bsky.social) & Dimitar Nikoloski (St. Kliment Ohridski Univ) discuss the demand for green skills in emerging economies, the challenges of skills mismatches, and the regional dimensions of the green transition.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 13d

At Session 3, Roy Peijen (TNO), Ludo Visschers (uc3m.es), Rumiana Stoilova & Petya Ilieva (IPS-BAS) explore challenges in worker mobility, including re-employability & re-skilling of displaced workers, reallocating of workers from declining to growing jobs & the role of informal adult education

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 13d

Now in Session 4 at the SkiLMeeT Conference: Ronald Bachmann (@rwi.bsky.social), @cesarbarreto.bsky.social (@oecd-ocde.bsky.social) & Elena Magrini (@lightcast.bsky.social) present their papers on green jobs, wages, energy transition costs, and digital-green skill needs.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 13d

We’re starting off the second SkiLMeeT Conference keynote. Simone Rosini (DG EMP) presents "European Skills and Labour Shortages. An Update on the Evidence Available and Policies Put in Place at EU level". Join us live on YT: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmE...

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 13d

📗SkiLMeeT Conference Session 1 "Skills in the green transition" is underway: fedfabfrat.bsky.social of FEEM, Giulia Santangelo of cedefop.europa.eu & Daniele Gasparini of maastrichtu.bsky.social are discussing the impact of climate change and policies on the workforce, green skill demand & supply.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 13d

In SkiLMeeT Conference Session 2, @davidmarguerit.bsky.social (@liserinlux.bsky.social), Andreas Fridolin Bühler (UZH) and @karol-madon.bsky.social (IBS) discuss educational & occupational choices, AI & climate awareness.

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 13d

We’re kicking off the SkiLMeeT Conference with a @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University) keynote on “Firm Organization and Worker Outcomes: The Role of Occupational Specialization”. Join us live on YT: bit.ly/4pBQFhP

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 15d

🎉 Our SkiLMeeT Midterm Conference, “Workers, Firms & Skills in the Digital & Green Transition”, is almost here!

2–3 Oct 2025 - Sofia

32 presentations - 10 sessions

Headline keynote: @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University, Toronto)

📅 Final agenda: skilmeet.eu/our-2025-con...

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 We’re excited to bring the Bulgarian employers’ perspective to the SkiLMeeT Conference! Our keynote speaker, Mariya Mincheva of the Bulgarian Industrial Association will present
Skills: A Key Currency of Competitiveness – The Employer’s Perspective
📍 Sofia | 🗓 3 Oct | 🕘 9:15 am EEST

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 We're happy to announce the policy keynote of the SkiLMeeT Midterm Conference!
On 2 Oct, Simone Rosini (DG EMP) will present:
“European Skills and Labour Shortages. An Update on the Evidence Available and Policies put in Place at EU level”

📍 Sofia | 2:00 pm EEST | Watch live: bit.ly/4pBQFhP

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 21d

🚨Keynote update for the SkiLMeeT Conference!
@cortesecon.bsky.social will present:
“Firm Organization and Worker Outcomes: The Role of Occupational Specialization”
📺 The keynote will be streamed live on our YouTube channel - 2 October 9:30 am EEST: bit.ly/468PYoG

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 27d

🚨The SkiLMeeT Conference programme is out! Explore how skills, green & digital transitions are reshaping labour markets.
🗓 2–3 Oct 2025 | Sofia

Keynote: @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University)
Policy keynotes: Simone Rosini (DG EMP), Mariya Mincheva (BIA)
📄 Register: bit.ly/4fTQOc5

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Sep 8

📨 SkiLMeeT Newsletter 5 is live!
🍂 Midterm Conference (Sofia, 2–3 Oct) – full programme
🎫 Webinar recaps: AGI & policy, digitalisation & vocational training, skills for the twin transition
🌍 On the road: Our contribution to debates in Berlin & Łódź and the WeLaR Conference
🔗http://bit.ly/487ZCJn

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Jun 17

Check out the SkiLMeeT report offering a critical overview of the current state of knowledge on Europe’s skills challenges.
It covers definitions, drivers (tech, green, migration, etc), and solutions (reskilling, education, mobility).

📖 Read here: bit.ly/3HK3KEi

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thanks to all the researchers and industry representatives who joined the SkiLMeeT webinar today. Huge thanks to Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage and Chiara Foglio for their great presentations. Looking forward to what’s next!

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Jun 5

Chiara Foglio from @ecegbrussels.bsky.social‬ is sharing insights from the ChemSkills project, which aims to develop training and curricula to close the skills gap and support the chemical industry’s green & digital transitions.

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Jun 5

🚀 We’re kicking off the SkiLMeeT webinar “The future of skills in the context of the twin transition”!

Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social opens with his insights on automation and how education can help workers adapt in the digital age and time of AI.

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