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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 5d

🎓 Thank you to Piotr Lewandowski (IBS) and all who joined today’s SkiLMeeT research webinar!

Great discussion on how technology shapes educational choices and the next generation’s path into the labour market. See you on the next webinar!

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 5d

🎬 We’re kicking off our SkiLMeeT research webinar with Piotr Lewandowski (IBS)!
He’s presenting a paper co-authored with @karol-madon.bsky.social (IBS) on how robotisation influences teens’ educational choices, using new evidence from Norway.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Have you registered for tomorrow’s SkiLMeeT research webinar?
🤖 Piotr Lewandowski (IBS) will present new evidence from Norway on how robotisation influences teens’ education choices.
📅 28 Oct, 14:00 - 15:00 CET

Register here: bit.ly/3Wf3KQM

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 9d

Teens, robots, and career decisions - what’s the link?
Find out in our SkiLMeeT research webinar with Piotr Lewandowski (IBS).
📅 Next week, Tue 28 Oct, 14:00–15:00 CET
🔗 bit.ly/3Wf3KQM

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 12d

🤖 How does robotisation shape teens’ educational choices?
Join us for a SkiLMeeT research webinar with Piotr Lewandowski (IBS), who will present new evidence from Norway on how exposure to robots influences students’ vocational paths.
📅 28 Oct, 14:00 - 15:00 CET
🔗 bit.ly/3Wf3KQM

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 20d

🔍Today, SkiLMeeT researchers Linda Koopmans and Sadegh Shahmohammadi (TNO) presented project at the European Commission’s Education & Skills - Horizon Europe Feedback to Policy event. They showed some of our preliminary findings and discussed policy recommendations.

Thanks to all presenters!

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · 24d

At ELMI 2025 in Warsaw, our researcher @karol-madon.bsky.social(IBS) presented a preliminary SkiLMeeT paper co-authored by Piotr Lewandowski on how automation shapes Norwegian students’ choices.
Key points:
• Robot exposure shapes study choices
• Sons of exposed workers avoid vulnerable tracks

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 3

At our final conference session, Vassil Kirov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) and Magdalena Parcheva (University of Economics–Varna) examine construction digital-skill needs, and entrepreneurial competences.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 3

At SkiLMeeT Conference Session 9, veescudero.bsky.social (ilo.org) looks at how skills mediate the impact of digital technologies, while Elena Stoykova (Sofia University) examines skill trajectories and labour market integration of sociology graduates.

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 3

SkiLMeeT Conference Session 8 features Najada Fejmi (liserinlux.bsky.social), Piotr Lewandowski (IBS) & Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage (utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) examining how AI reshapes skill demand, how skills supply adjusts to technological change & how workers' AI exposure differs across countries

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 3

In Session 7 of the SkiLMeeT Conference, Francesco Berlingieri (@ec.europa.eu), Mina Kostova (IPS-BAS), and Patrice Jalette (@umontreal.ca) discussed job quality in the context of the pandemic, healthcare workers’ situation, and the impact of labour shortages on working conditions.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 3

Mariya Mincheva (Bulgarian Industrial Association) presents a policy keynote at the SkiLMeeT Conference, “Skills: A Key Currency of Competitiveness – The Employer’s Perspective”, offering a Bulgarian industry view on skills for competitiveness and innovation.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 2

Session 6 on firms at the SkiLMeeT Conference is live. Luisa Braunschweig (@iabnews.bsky.social), Elena Fumagalli (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) & Elena Grinza (University of Turin) discuss how firms shape inequality, bias in hiring, and productivity effects of climate change.

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 2

At Session 5 of the SkiLMeeT Conference, Hannah Liepmann (ilo.org), Mirjam Fitzthum (rwi.bsky.social) & Dimitar Nikoloski (St. Kliment Ohridski Univ) discuss the demand for green skills in emerging economies, the challenges of skills mismatches, and the regional dimensions of the green transition.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 2

At Session 3, Roy Peijen (TNO), Ludo Visschers (uc3m.es), Rumiana Stoilova & Petya Ilieva (IPS-BAS) explore challenges in worker mobility, including re-employability & re-skilling of displaced workers, reallocating of workers from declining to growing jobs & the role of informal adult education

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 2

Now in Session 4 at the SkiLMeeT Conference: Ronald Bachmann (@rwi.bsky.social), @cesarbarreto.bsky.social (@oecd-ocde.bsky.social) & Elena Magrini (@lightcast.bsky.social) present their papers on green jobs, wages, energy transition costs, and digital-green skill needs.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 2

We’re starting off the second SkiLMeeT Conference keynote. Simone Rosini (DG EMP) presents "European Skills and Labour Shortages. An Update on the Evidence Available and Policies Put in Place at EU level". Join us live on YT: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmE...

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 2

📗SkiLMeeT Conference Session 1 "Skills in the green transition" is underway: fedfabfrat.bsky.social of FEEM, Giulia Santangelo of cedefop.europa.eu & Daniele Gasparini of maastrichtu.bsky.social are discussing the impact of climate change and policies on the workforce, green skill demand & supply.

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 2

In SkiLMeeT Conference Session 2, @davidmarguerit.bsky.social (@liserinlux.bsky.social), Andreas Fridolin Bühler (UZH) and @karol-madon.bsky.social (IBS) discuss educational & occupational choices, AI & climate awareness.

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Oct 2

We’re kicking off the SkiLMeeT Conference with a @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University) keynote on “Firm Organization and Worker Outcomes: The Role of Occupational Specialization”. Join us live on YT: bit.ly/4pBQFhP

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Sep 30

🎉 Our SkiLMeeT Midterm Conference, “Workers, Firms & Skills in the Digital & Green Transition”, is almost here!

2–3 Oct 2025 - Sofia

32 presentations - 10 sessions

Headline keynote: @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University, Toronto)

📅 Final agenda: skilmeet.eu/our-2025-con...

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Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Sep 29

🚨 We’re excited to bring the Bulgarian employers’ perspective to the SkiLMeeT Conference! Our keynote speaker, Mariya Mincheva of the Bulgarian Industrial Association will present
Skills: A Key Currency of Competitiveness – The Employer’s Perspective
📍 Sofia | 🗓 3 Oct | 🕘 9:15 am EEST

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Sep 26

🚨 We're happy to announce the policy keynote of the SkiLMeeT Midterm Conference!
On 2 Oct, Simone Rosini (DG EMP) will present:
“European Skills and Labour Shortages. An Update on the Evidence Available and Policies put in Place at EU level”

📍 Sofia | 2:00 pm EEST | Watch live: bit.ly/4pBQFhP

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Sep 24

🚨Keynote update for the SkiLMeeT Conference!
@cortesecon.bsky.social will present:
“Firm Organization and Worker Outcomes: The Role of Occupational Specialization”
📺 The keynote will be streamed live on our YouTube channel - 2 October 9:30 am EEST: bit.ly/468PYoG

Skills for labour markets in the digital and green transition @skilmeet.bsky.social · Sep 18

🚨The SkiLMeeT Conference programme is out! Explore how skills, green & digital transitions are reshaping labour markets.
🗓 2–3 Oct 2025 | Sofia

Keynote: @cortesecon.bsky.social (York University)
Policy keynotes: Simone Rosini (DG EMP), Mariya Mincheva (BIA)
📄 Register: bit.ly/4fTQOc5