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1 ESCO (2015) SEC 073 FINAL Creation Date: 16/07/2015 Last update: 15/09/2015 Information points report Purpose of the document The purpose of this document is to brief the ESCO Maintenance Committee (MAI) on topics related to: the project status; the implementation of the agreed methodology; the follow-up to the MAI members advice expressed in previous meetings; general matters of relevance for the ESCO project. MAI members and observers are welcome to ask questions on this report via to the ESCO Secretariat (SEC). The SEC will reply to the questions either in writing or during the Q&A-session scheduled in the draft meeting agenda. ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative. 1

2 The Member States working group on ESCO (MSWG) 1. Introduction To support the development of ESCO the Commission decided to set up a working group of national governmental experts and representatives of European social partners. This group should act as consultation and information forum between Commission, Member States and social partners on ESCO. This cooperation with Member States will also prepare the implementation of the new EURES Regulation, currently being discussed at the European Parliament, as well as to stimulate the debate between employment and education at national level. The SEC did a first presentation of the new MSWG at the 16 th MAI meeting on 18 June The SEC also sent to the MAI members a copy of mandate of the working group on July last, as well as a sample of the letters sent to Member States and European social partners, inviting them to nominate their representatives to the group. 2. Status & planning Last June the Commission sent the invitation letters referred in point 1 above to the Brussels' Permanent Representations of the Member States, as well as to main European social partners' organisations. On September 7 th 22 Member States and 3 European social partners' organisations had appointed their representatives. Once this list of representatives is closed the Commission will publish it in the register of Commission expert groups 1. The SEC will send a copy of the list to the MAI. 3. Next steps The first meeting of the MSWG will take place in Brussels on 21 st October The MAI will be represented at this meeting by its chair, Mr. Tony Bird. 1 ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative. 2

3 Progress on the pilot projects Since large parts of ESCO v1 have already been finalised, more and more potential users and parties show interest to implement the classification. The Commission engages with these parties in pilot projects to provide support, to learn how the classification is used, and how the classification can be further optimized as to meet the various specific needs of the users. The following pilot and testing projects are currently on-going: EURES The European Job Mobility Portal of EURES is one of the first systems that will use ESCO. EURES currently uses the pilot version (ESCO v0) as the basis for capturing relevant skills in curricula vitae. As soon as ESCO v1 becomes available, EURES will use it for the exchange of information (job vacancies, CVs) between employment services, for competence-based job matching across Europe and for online career guidance services. Discussions on the roadmap for the implementation of ESCO v1 have started. ISA pilot project on ESCO Within the context of the ISA programme (Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations) DG DIGIT and DG EMPL are currently involved in a pilot that tests interoperability aspects of the ESCO v1 classification. For this purpose, curricula vitae from EURES and from the Belgium public employment service VDAB are matched against job vacancies from LinkedIn. This pilot demonstrates on a portal the semantic interoperability capabilities of ESCO v1 across multiple systems and languages. The final deliverables of the pilot will be available this autumn. Discussions on a follow-up project have started. Mapping Pilot Together with four public employment services (Spain, The Netherlands, France and the Czech Republic) the Commission tests the creation of mappings (i.e. machine-readable correspondence tables) between ESCO and national classification systems. For this purpose the Commission uses ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative. 3

4 the occupation and skills from the Hospitality and Tourism sector. At a workshop in July the ESCO Secretariat (SEC) demonstrated a prototype for a service that proposes mappings between ESCO and national classifications. Based on the evaluation at the workshop we are preparing an updated version of the service. Following this, the participating employment services will validate the mappings and discuss them at the next workshop early November. They will also process test cases, so that they will be annotated with the national classification systems and with ESCO. The Mapping Pilot will finish in December Public Employment Services Since multilingual content for the first economic sectors is now available for testing, the Commission invited public employment services to conduct pilot projects using ESCO on a national level. Four public employment services expressed their interest to cooperate on such pilot projects, i.e. Hungary, Cyprus, Spain and Sweden. The Commission currently discusses how best to define, scope, plan and support of each of these pilots. The focus of the discussions ranges from the creation of mappings to the use of ESCO for skill-based job matching, to supporting discussions on how best to benefit from the ESCO classification. We hope to conclude the definition phase over the next weeks and start actual pilots. Qualification Pilot The Commission is involved in preparing a pilot that demonstrates the vision for the integration of qualifications in ESCO. By providing an implementation of the technical specification in a distributed environment, the pilot will clarify how the various stakeholders can build the knowledge captured in the qualification pillar in ESCO. The qualification pilot is expected deliver later this autumn. Academy Cube (PDA Group) Academy Cube is an online e-learning platform targeted to enrich STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) graduates skill-sets with relevant ICT competences. It forms part of a pledge that SAP made as part of the Grand Coalition of Digital Jobs. The platform itself is managed by a non-profit spin off (PDA Group) and is vendor neutral. Partners currently include SAP, CISCO and Festo; discussions with Microsoft to join the project are on-going. The platform contains a functionality to match curricula vitae, job vacancies and qualifications on the basis of skills. The PDA group has implemented the currently available ESCO ICT v1 demo ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative. 4

5 content as the standard catalogue for competences and occupations of their system. This implementation work has been completed early August. As a next step we are planning an evaluation workshop with Academy Cube to learn what ESCO does well, and what ESCO needs to do better. ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative. 5

6 Implementation of the approach on regulated professions At the Maintenance Committee meetings of 12 November 2014 and March 2015, the SEC provided a document on how ESCO v1 will include information on regulated professions as part of the occupational profiles. Based on discussions at the MAI meeting and discussions with DG GROW (Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs), the SEC proposes solutions on how to create a complete mapping between the generic professions in the Regulated Professions Database (RPD) and ESCO occupations, and how to record and publish the information as part of the ESCO v1 data. The RPD captures information on regulated professions in the Member States grouped in generic professions. In ESCO we capture the relation between an ESCO occupation and relevant generic professions as a qualified links (see also figure 1). The link will describe if the regulated profession is regulated only at national level or if it is also covered by the European system of automated recognition. The Commission will not copy the actual detail of the regulated professions into ESCO. The detail will be accessible through the provided link. The link will bring the user to the relevant generic profession in the RPD. (See also ESCO (2014) SEC 062 FINAL). At this stage, we will not include information on regulated activities in ESCO, as it is not readily available in the RPD. We will continue to investigate how this can be included after the release of ESCO v1. Figure 1 As a next step the SEC will discuss with DG GROW on the format for exchanging the information and on the mechanism that will trigger the update of the information in ESCO. ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative. 6

7 Implementation of the facets approach 1. Introduction The ESCO Secretariat (SEC) and the ESCO Maintenance Committee (MAI) discussed the use of facets on the MAI 14 th meeting as a methodology to speed up the development of the ESCO content in accordance with the ESCO data model. The methodology aimed at using existing word lists that, combined with an occupation or a skill, would create automatically a more specific concept (e.g. musician + musical instruments = guitar player, pianist, saxophone player, etc.). 2. Status & planning The SEC assessed the current content together with the Taxonomy Expert Group (TEG). They observed that: The availability of word lists is limited and requires a maintenance effort for updating the lists; The use of the wordlists makes it more difficult to control the level of detail sought in ESCO; The automated combination of a word list with a skill or an occupation requires a validation step and manual changes if descriptions or preferred terms need to be changed. E.g. musician + piano would give piano player. The change to pianist would require a human intervention; The use of word list complicates the translation processes. Based on the experience acquired so far, the SEC and TEG concluded that the use of facets did not result in a more efficient/faster development. As a result, they did not implement the facet approach very often across the classification and CTC showed only a few examples of faceted concepts. ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative. 7

8 3. Next steps The SEC instructed the TEG to reassess the use of facets and implement the faceted concepts as normal concepts. The SEC considers keeping the facet approach only for the languages, because the different dimensions represented in the Common European Reference Framework for Languages may make it more efficient than developing each concept from scratch. ESCO is a Europe 2020 initiative. 8