Link4Skills

Link4Skills is an international research collaboration project on the topic of skills shortages. The acronym reflects partnerships (‘linkages’) for/4 fair matching of qualified individuals. It encompasses four key processes that can be used to respond to skills shortages: retraining and further training of the local population (including migrants and non-working women), wage increases, automation/digitalisation and migration. Four continents are considered: Europe, Africa, Asia and America, where skills/skilled labour needs and skilled labour mobility are analysed. Link4Skills will examine: (a) how existing and emerging skills requirements can be identified in changing labour markets; (b) how the EU should respond to skills/labour shortages; and (c) how to ensure that the recruitment of skilled workers within the EU and from non-EU countries is fair and efficient. 

The project combines data on skills needs and matching in the EU with analyses of human capital in the countries of origin and the experiences and migration decisions of internationally mobile people in the destination countries. It examines emerging and established migration corridors for (future) skilled workers between Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, Austria and Poland, and India, Indonesia, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines and Ukraine in order to better understand transnational training and skilled worker partnerships in all their diversity and mechanisms. The knowledge produced will be embedded in an AI-supported Skill Navigator, which is a freely accessible, knowledge-based expert system or political dashboard.

  Flyer on the joint research project

  Flyer for the survey of internationally mobile persons