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Oct 29 - #HorizonEurope projects HorizonGS4S, Link4Skills, Skills4Justice present evidence-based discussion:
• skills shortages and labor market change
• business responses and automation
• migration partnerships
• international skills mobility
• long-term European policy
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Final conference event for dialogue that highlights three priorities: People—address labor shortages and unlock potential; Partnerships—build better migration and skills partnerships; and Policy—use evidence to shape smarter, fairer policy. Event co-sponsored by Global Strategy for Skills, Migration, Development and its Three Horizon Europe sister projects, #Link4Skills and #Skills4Justice projects are exploring what works to tackle growing skills shortages while ensuring migration is fair, sustainable and beneficial for all. These questions are becoming increasingly urgent for policymakers, employers and researchers alike. On 29 October, Three4GlobalSkills brings together the findings of three #HorizonEurope projects - Link4Skills / L4S, Horizon GS4S and Skills4Justice - Horizon Europe - for a full day of evidence-based discussion on: • skills shortages and labor market change • business responses and automation • migration partnerships • international skills mobility • long-term European policy The conference will bring together leading researchers alongside representatives from European institutions and international organizations. Final conference event, held in-person (Brussels) and online (register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpiMvqe8oOR5K1kcWAwd4K9XJm_vBOuox4mq-fz7Sjzcyrlg/viewform?pli=1). Dialogue highlights three priorities: People—address labour shortages and unlock potential; Partnerships—build better migration and skills partnerships; and Policy—use evidence to shape smarter, fairer policy. Event co-sponsored by Global Strategy for Skills, Migration, Development and its Three Horizon Europe sister projects, #Link4Skills and #Skills4Justice projects are exploring what works. 📍 Brussels 💻 Live-streamed 🗓️ 29 October 2026 Online participation is free, but registration is required.
September 25, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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2 June webinar, 3–4 PM CET - #HorizonGS4S Global Strategy for Skills, Migration, and Development perspectives from #Egypt #Bangladesh #Nigeria examine how countries can build more balanced and mutually beneficial approaches to #skills, #mobility, and #competitiveness Register: tinyurl.com/4fffurkm
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June 1, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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The #WesternBalkans at a Crossroads - @HorizonGS4S Policy Brief breaks down the data: Emigration is draining key sectors like IT, care, and construction.
📉 Youth joblessness
💶 Low wages
📊 Skill gaps
Reversing brain drain isn’t just possible, it is essential for growth/prosperity
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The Western Balkans at a Crossroads - @HorizonGS4S policy brief delves into the issues surrounding emigration from the Western Balkans to the European Union that has long supplied much-needed workers for European economies. As the EU’s population ages and it undergoes digital and green transformations, talent from countries like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Kosovo is more valued than ever. But this trend comes at a cost: the outflow of workers has exacerbated labour and skill shortages across the Western Balkans, depleting the very talent pool needed for the region’s own development. In short, the region is at a crossroads – their people are building Europe’s future, but who will build theirs? The policy brief offers a framework of three main policy pillars to tackle emigrant-driven labour shortages: Industrial Policy & Quality Jobs, Migration Management & Skills Development, Better Data & Labour Market Intelligence. Addressing labour shortages in the Western Balkans amid ongoing migration is not just a regional task – it’s a European challenge. The EU and WB are interconnected: labour market imbalances in one affect the other. EU policymakers can help by extending support and investment to Western Balkan partners, treating them as an integral part of Europe’s labour ecosystem. Reversing brain drain is not only possible - it is essential for growth and prosperity in both the #EU and the #WesternBalkans. Download full brief at the GS4S website https://gs4s.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Policy-Brief-1-Updated-1-12-25.pdf or at Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/14056109
April 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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"Migration vs. Automation as an Answer to Labour Shortages: Firm-Level Analysis for Austria" @horizongs4s WP7 explores how firms respond to EU’s growing labour shortages @wiiw.ac.at authors M. Tverdostup, M. Ghodsi, S. Leitner link robot adoption with firm-level employment trends shorturl.at/unC6M
Migration vs. automation as an answer to labour shortages: Firm-level analysis for Austria Download: https://gs4s.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Paper-7.pdf This working paper is part of the Horizon Europe project GS4S - Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development (gs4s.eu). Project deliverable: D7.3 in T3.4 Authors: Maryna Tverdostup, Mahdi Ghodsi, Sandra M. Leitner, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, April 2025. Suggested citation (APA): Tverdostup, M., Ghodsi, M., & Leitner, S. (2025). Migration vs. Automation as an answer to labour shortages: Firm-level analysis for Austria. Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development (GS4S). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15115025 Labour shortages in Europe have led firms to adopt two key strategies: automation and the employment of migrants. This study empirically examines the relationship between robot adoption and immigrant labour (differentiated by region of origin and education level) in Austrian firms using a novel dataset linking firm-level survey data on robotics adoption from Austria’s Information and Communication Technologies (IKTU1) surveys (waves 2018, 2020 and 2022) with registry-based employment records. Employing Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) estimations, the authors analyse firm-level employment decisions while controlling for firm characteristics, industry and region. Our findings show that firms adopting robots tend to employ more workers overall, particularly those with low and medium education levels. Notably, robot-adopting firms employ a higher share of low-educated migrants who are not from the European Economic Area (EEA), suggesting complementarity rather than substitution. However, automation appears to reduce the employment of highly educated migrant workers relative to natives. #Migration #automation #employment #firm-analysis #worker-level analysis #robotics #EEA #wiiw
April 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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@GS4S working paper 6: "What Role Can Mobility Schemes Play in Addressing Skills Shortages in Europe?" assesses recent evolution of #mobilityschemes and partnerships, including case studies to address skills shortages. Download: shorturl.at/ttxEW and at #Zenodo
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@HorizonGS4S Working Paper No. 6: "What Role Can Mobility Schemes Play in Addressing Skills Shortages in Europe?" downloadable at https://gs4s.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Working-Paper-6.pdf and Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/14959232 The sixth working paper in the GS4S series assesses the recent evolution of mobility schemes and partnerships in the European context, exploring the implications for using these initiatives to address skills shortages. Taking recent academic literature that has focused more on skills development and training as a starting point, this paper generates a typology that reviews mobility schemes based on the skills needs they are trying to address and the type of mobility they seek to support, ranging from short-term visits to long-term training or work placements. Building off this typology, the paper also includes short case studies of recent / ongoing mobility schemes, examining how they approach mobility and skills development and their outcomes to date. Authors: Kate Hooper, Jasmijn Slootjes Reviewers: Tesseltje de Lange, Colleen Boland Suggested citation (APA): Hooper, K., Slootjes, J. (2025). What role can mobility schemes play in addressing skills shortages in Europe? Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development (GS4S). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14959232 #skillshortages #mobility #LabourMigration #SkillsDevelopment #training #PilotProjects #MobilitySchemes #MigrationPartnerships #TalentPartnerships #GlobalSkillPartnerships #SkillsMobility
March 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM