Commission launches EU Skills Panorama website

The European Commission last week launched the EU Skills Panorama website, which it said would present quantitative and qualitative information on short- and medium-term skills needs, skills supply and skills mismatches. Drawing on “data and forecasts compiled at EU and Member State level”, it will look to “highlight the fastest growing occupations as well as the top 'bottleneck' occupations with high numbers of unfilled vacancies”.
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner responsible for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, said the Panorama would also help to improve the “response of education and training systems to changing skill trends and to ensure people are equipped for those areas where job demand is set to increase”.
The website contains detailed information by sector, profession and country.  The Commission said the website shows that the occupations with the most unfilled vacancies in the EU today are finance and sales professionals. Other shortages most frequently reported concern biologists, pharmacologists, medical doctors and related professionals, nurses, ICT computing professionals and engineers. Visit the website here.
The EUSP provides information and intelligence that can:
    Help improve the capacity for skills assessment and anticipation
    Inform skills governance through the anticipation of skills needs; improving responsiveness of education and training systems; and enhancing the matching of supply and demand for labour across Europe.
The EUSP will widen the audience for labour market information and skills research across Europe through:
    Providing access to labour market and skills information and ‘intelligence’
    Providing users with access to information about the methodologies used to generate labour market and skills information and intelligence
    Understanding and responding to users’ needs.
The EUSP includes this public website that:
    Acts as a central access point providing data, information and intelligence on skills trends in occupations and sectors at the national and EU level
    Provides a European perspective on trends in labour supply, demand and mismatches
    Signposts users to national sources with skills information
    Signposts users to the methods used to generate skills anticipation information”.