The European Year of Skills 2023 puts skills centre-stage. Helping people get the right skills for quality jobs and helping companies, in particular small and medium enterprises, address skills shortages in the EU is what this Year is all about. How? By showcasing skills development opportunities and activities across Europe, by fostering easier recognition of qualifications across borders, by bringing organisations and people together to share their experiences and insights, and setting out how EU initiatives and funding possibilities can help. The European Commission has launched the official website of the European Year of Skills. This website gathers contributions, events, tools and ideas [...]

The BeWell project launched the European health multi-stakeholder partnership on skills gaps and emerging occupations, on Tuesday 13 December, through an online event. The event was hosted by the European Health Management Association (EHMA), BeWell project coordinator.   The event was moderated by George Valiotis from EHMA and Michele Calabro from EUREGHA.   Sandra Gallina, Director General, of the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety, welcomed the initiative, referring to the challenges that the EU health system faces and welcomed the multi-stakeholder partnership as a good beginning, almost a guarantee that Europe will have the experience to deal with the [...]

BeWell transforms the health workforce of tomorrow The key ambition of BeWell is to develop, until 2026, a green and digital skills strategy for the health ecosystem that can be implemented at local, regional, national, and ultimately at European level through the Pact for Skills.   The work on the strategy was kicked-off at the multi-stakeholder workshop hosted by the coordinator European Health Management Association (EHMA) in Brussels on 19-20 October 2022. The objective for this highly interactive, co-creation workshop was to develop a common vision across the different stakeholder views represented by the consortium partners through establishing a [...]