{"id":3910,"date":"2020-08-12T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&#038;p=3910"},"modified":"2020-08-12T18:09:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:09:17","slug":"il-european-skills-agenda-twitti-t-triq-ghal-futur-izjed-kompetittiv","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/il-european-skills-agenda-twitti-t-triq-ghal-futur-izjed-kompetittiv\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Skills Agenda \u2013 paving the way for a more competitive future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/skills_agenda_card-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2512\" height=\"1144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/skills_agenda_card-1.png 2512w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/skills_agenda_card-1-300x137.png 300w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/skills_agenda_card-1-1024x466.png 1024w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/skills_agenda_card-1-768x350.png 768w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/skills_agenda_card-1-1536x700.png 1536w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/skills_agenda_card-1-2048x933.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2512px) 100vw, 2512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The world is still recovering from an unprecedented period as the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our day-to-day lives in various ways.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">T<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he European Commission wants to turn such challenges into opportunities and sees the green and digital transitions as the catalyst<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Europe\u2019s future. The recent\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/social\/main.jsp?catId=1223\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">European Skills Agenda<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">has been devised to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">equip the workforce with the right skillset to achieve these transitions in the shortest period possible.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The European Skills Agenda is aimed to:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"0\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Enhance sustainable competitiveness to help Europe achieve the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/strategy\/priorities-2019-2024\/european-green-deal\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">European Green Deal<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and place its digital and industrial strategies into practice;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"0\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ensure social equality throughout, finally putting into practice the first principle of the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/priorities\/deeper-and-fairer-economic-and-monetary-union\/european-pillar-social-rights_en\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">European Pillar of Social Rights<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which is, access to education, training and lifelong-learning for everyone;\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"0\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Build-up the continent\u2019s resilience to react to future crises and making good use of lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A good skillset is essential for Europe\u2019s growth and the COVID-19 pandemic proved that digital skills are key to work, study, access goods and services, and keep in touch with our loved ones. On the other hand, citizens need to have the right opportunities to improve their skills and therefore, keep companies competitive. Hopefully, the European Skills Agenda is the first step in the right direction.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The world is still recovering from an unprecedented period as the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our day-to-day lives in various ways.\u00a0The European Commission wants to turn such challenges into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3902,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[177],"issuem_issue_categories":[14],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3910\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}