Germany Start European Tender

Social Commissioner Nicolas Schmit and Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton signed a new pact for skills on 10 November as part of the European Vocational Training Week 2020. The pact will strengthen corporate investment in upskilling and retraining. One focus is the cooperation between industry employers social partners chambers of commerce authorities education and training providers and employment agencies.The Skills Pact is one of the flagship initiatives of the European Skills Agenda for Sustainable Competitiveness Social Justice and Resilience which was presented on July 1 2020. The main aim of the pact is to mobilize resources and encourage all relevant stakeholders to take concrete measures for further training and retraining of workers by bundling efforts and establishing partnerships to support ecological and digital change as well as local and regional growth strategies.More and more often there are not enough workers with the right skills available on the labor market while at the same time many people are at risk of unemployment. The competency pact is accompanied by a charter in which industry the social partners vocational training providers and national regional and local authorities define their ideas about high quality vocational training. Participants in the Pact make a clear commitment to investing in training for all people of working age across the Union.On the Skills Pact Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton saidTalent is a critical factor in the resilience of our European industry and will also play a central role in post-pandemic reconstruction. As the twofold ecological and digital change is picking up speed we must equip all Europeans with the right skills. Today we can announce the first competence partnerships in three industrial ecosystems automotive microelectronics and aerospace and defense. Other industries will follow. This start of the competence pact is the first step in our European competence offensive. In order to involve all stakeholders in the development of the pact Commissioners Breton and Schmit have already initiated a series of high-level discussions with representatives from industrial sectors regional and national authorities social partners and educational and vocational training institutions. Further discussions will follow in the coming weeks. Building on these discussions the Pact will forge large-scale partnerships in industrial sectors of strategic importance that have been badly affected by the current crisis and in the priority areas identified in the European Green Deal . The aim is to implement the ambitious commitments. The first European competence partnerships are concluded in the following important industrial sectorsAutomotive industry Here 5 percent of the workforce is to undergo further training every year so that around 700000 people acquire new skills. This is likely to require a total of EUR 7 billion in private and public investment. It starts with regional pilot projects.Microelectronics Public and private investments totaling EUR 2 billion are earmarked for the initiatives to implement the partnership objectives. With these funds European electronics clusters will provide further education and retraining opportunities for more than 250000 employees and learners in the period 2021-2025.Aerospace and defense The aim is to train around 6 percent of the workforce annually so that a total of 200000 people are reached. Public and private investments totaling EUR 1 billion are planned for this purpose over the next ten years.Other industrial sectors will follow in the coming months.By joining the pact the participants gain access to platforms for networking knowledge exchange and resources. The European Commission will also provide information and guidance on EU funding and skills programs and will set up a single point of contact for this at EU level. In addition to the funds available under REACT-EU the European Social Fund and other relevant programs of the new multiannual financial framework 2021-2027 further training and retraining are also central investment priorities of the development and resilience facility with a volume of 672.5 billion. EUR.