How INTENT fits with the European developments

Pauline van den Bosch

EVTA11 december 2009

Global developments

Risks and opportunities rise from:

Globalisation, technological change, shift to low carbon economy, demographic developments.

Economic crisis: stronger policies and innovations to improve employability.

What recently happened in Europe..

Upgrading skillsUpgrading skills

Match labour market needsMatch labour market needs

One of the initiatives

Dec. 2008:

New skills for new jobsNew skills for new jobs

Sectoral approach: studies in 19 sectors;Resulting in a guide for

actors at different levels;Scenarios, implications

and options (2020);

To improve the capacity to anticipate and match labour market skills need in the

EU

Distribution and trade

Open and internationalized sector: Sensitive for developments and changes in economy and society;

In size, employment and turn over the largest sector;

A great number of drivers do impact the sector;

SWOT analysis

To define key internal and external factors which can destroy or create values:

Strengths and weaknesses: : internalinternal factorsSkills, resources, location;

Opportunities and Threats: externalexternal factorsMarket dynamics, demographic, economic, political, technical, social, legal or cultural;

Some examples…

Opportunities:Opportunities:Competition based on services and customer relations;E-commerce: multichannel strategies and sophisticated websites;Green retailing, Lifestyle changes;Ageing society: different shopping demands;

Challenges:Challenges:Price competition: race to the bottom;International competition: firms from China, India;Cultural differences in barriers to global expansion;E-commerce: trust, delivery etc.

Drivers of change

Economic:Economic:Competition on the global market;Economic development;

Social & political:Social & political:Lifestyle changes;Regulations: climate, health, safety and security;Ageing; Market segmentation;

Technical & natural:Technical & natural:ICT and e-commerce; Oil and energy resources;R&D: new marketing concepts, materials, processes

Emerging skills and competences

+ multiskilling and new combination of skills

Emerging skills and competences: per sector

Recommendations

Adapt and modernise VET at national level;

Intensify collaboration with all relevant stakeholders;

Preparing for re-training, upskilling, multiskilling;

Enhance flexibility abd modularisation;

E-learning, blended learning, EU wide recognition of skills;

Joint training networks to foster apprenticeships in the sector;

Training offers for SMEs (invest in human capital);

Adressing the demand of business run by migrants;

Foster sector specific skills at an early stage;