SKILLAB: Creating a Skills Supply and Demand Data Space

Abstract

The advent of Industry 5.0 as a defining concept for the future, which advocates a human-centric coalescence of humans and technology or software, renders the skilled workforce the most important asset in any organization or business. The society is 'forced' to adapt itself to technological change and progress for setting the necessary skillsets for the workforce. In order to follow the digital transformation, it is necessary to evoke the reshaping, evolution, or replacement of traditional and possibly obsolete processes at intra-or inter-organizational levels in multiple aspects, introducing innovative ways of re-defining the workforce. To do so, the key piece are data. In this context various platform collect and organize data, also exploiting the new era of Data Spaces (DS). SKILLAB will act as a smart tool for handling, honing, and widening the competencies of the personnel of companies, forecasting future skill gaps and providing European citizens with a tool for upskilling and reskilling, exploiting DS.