Description
Sector Skills Alliances shall aim at tackling skills gaps, enhancing the responsiveness of initial and continuing VET systems to
sector specific labour market needs and demand for new skills with regard to one or more occupational profiles.
This should be achieved by:
- modernising VET by adapting to skills needs and integrating work based learning and exploiting its potential to drive economic
development and innovation, notably at local and regional levels, increasing the competitiveness of the sectors concerned;
- strengthening the exchange of knowledge and practice between vocational education and training institutions and the labour market
integrating work-based learning facilitating labour mobility, mutual trust and increased recognition of qualifications at European level
within the sectors concerned.
The sectors that will be eligible under this action are sectors with skills imbalances, to which current Commission policies respond:
- Manufacturing & Engineering
- Commerce
- Information and communication technology
- Environmental technologies (Eco-innovation)
- Cultural and creative sectors
- Health care
- Tourism
Eligibility
A participating organisation can be any public or private organisation established in a Programme Country or in any Partner Country of the world (EU Member States, EEA, EFTA, EU Candidate Countries)
For example, such organisation can be:
- a vocational education institute/school;
- a VET centre;
- an inter-company training centre;
- a public or private, small, medium or large enterprise (including social enterprises);
- a public VET authority at local, regional or national level;
- a higher education institution providing VET;
- a social partner or other representative of working life, including chambers of commerce, industry, craft/professional associations and
trade unions;
- an intermediary or association which represents education, training or youth organisations;
- a research institute;
- a cultural and/or creative body;
- a body providing career guidance, professional counselling and information services;
- a body responsible for recognition an accreditation, certification or qualification body
Deadline: 26 February 2016
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