Skills for a Green Recovery

The policy breakfast will focus on how green and brown jobs and skills can be defined in a fast-moving ecological transformation and how emerging classifications can help to inform European policy interventions that put a just transition for workers at the center stage. Participants will discuss recent trends and initiatives for defining green skills like the ESCO green skills taxonomy. Moreover, participants the role of initiatives to develop green skills and green jobs such as European Skills Agenda, the council recommendations on individual learning accounts and the Council Recommendation on micro-credentials in the context of ensuring a just transition

About the Employment Policy Breakfast Series – The employment We Want

In this series of policy breakfast meetings, European experts and policy-makers will be presenting potential policy solutions to tackle diverse aspects pertaining to employment. Discussants will be first invited to comment on the current state of play and policy development, and then the floor will be open for interactions from the audience to challenge and strengthen the proposals.

Labour markets are changing and we need a very diligent public sector to avoid the quality and quantity of jobs being compromised further.
What are the initiatives that can be taken? There are plenty!
In this Policy Breakfast Series on “The Employment We Want” we focus on four policies that could help shape a European employment agenda in the near future:

• An EU initiative for Zero Unemployment Territories – 8 September 
• Workers Data Rights – 13 September 
• Skills for a Green Recovery – 15 September 
• Pay Transparency and Gender Equality – 20 September