Empowering Youth: Making the European Year of Skills Work

Trade unions and social activists have long witnessed continuous and fundamental challenges in the world of work. Upskilling and reskilling, life-long-learning have become mandatory requirements for all workers to keep up to date and relevant on the job market. The 2023 European Year of Skills (EYS) is a real opportunity for the EU as a whole and for member states as individual entities to start a paradigm shift in the way skills and workers are relating to the labour market. The European Commission even proposed 2023 to become a ‘skills revolution in Europe’.
 
Following the adoption of a Decision by the co-legislators on the EYS, ‘CESI Youth’, ‘OBESSU’ (the Organizing Bureau of European School Student Unions) and ‘StartNet – network transition education to work’ are once again joining forces to launch a forward-looking conversation on the future of work. What are the skills our education systems and job markets should really support young people to develop/ in developing? The event aims to gather different perspectives on young people and skills development in Europe, kicking off a conversation that shall accompany and impact this European year throughout.
 
The event is taking place in the framework of the European Year of Skills, following the European Youth Event in Strasbourg and the European Vocational Skills Week.