Policy brief - Mobility and labour dynamics after the EU Year of Skills:

Policy brief JULY 2024 Mobility and labour dynamics after the EU Year of Skills: Are we fit for the future? Recommendations for addressing labour shortages and skills gaps through enhanced skills mobility Introduction   Following the adoption of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, and the start of the new political cycle, an opportune The European Year of Skills has provided renewed impe- moment. [...] The As part of its Skills Agenda, the EU has sought to establish third set seeks to foster mutually beneficial partnerships and partnerships to train and attract skills and talent from abroad, an environment conducive to skills mobility in the EU and in complementing internal up- and reskilling initiatives. [...] such as those in the 2022 Communication on Attracting Skills These recommendations are addressed to the EU and and Talent to the EU and the 2023 Skills and Talents Mobility national policy makers, in Europe and beyond, as well as to package. [...] Looking at ly adopted Single Permit Directive begins, Member States the EU specifically, strengthened collaboration between should use the flexibility provided by the recast to promote statistical offices and labour market observatories of the the international recruitment of talent and address per- EU and in partner countries should be integrated into the sistent labour shortages in a variety of. [...] These recommendations draw insights from the activ- ities of the project, ‘Fit for the future? The European Skills Agenda between migration and labour dynamics’, launched by the European Policy Centre (EPC), the International Cen- tre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the Egmont Institute and the Belgian Development Agency, Enabel.