Data Space for Skills (deployment)

Expected Outcome:

• Technical infrastructure for the deployment of the data space for skills;

• Data governance documentation, comprising a set of rules of legislative, administrative and contractual nature covering access rights, processing, using and sharing data in a trustful and transparent manner;

• Code of conduct and contract template;

• Guidance/training documents for the stakeholders willing to join the data space;

• Once the data space is deployed: quarterly and on an ad hoc basis reporting on usage, problems detected, and solutions provided;

• A report about the connection of the data space with EU initiatives on skills and qualifications data, such as for example initiatives linked to the Digital Skills & Jobs Coalition.

Objective:

The objective is to develop and deploy a secure and trusted data space for skills. Data is at the core of skills, education, training and employment, offering enormous potential for innovative applications. Databases of job offers, qualifications, learning opportunities, lists of curricula and certifications, inventory of topics studied at all levels of education and training, as well as skills classifications, can help better define human resource, business, employment as well as education and training policy strategies and add value for learners. The data space for skills is a European Common Data Space for sharing and accessing skills data for various purposes, from analytical and statistical purposes to policy development or re-use in innovative applications in line with European values, with a particular emphasis on ethics, diversity and privacy.