Advancing our skills intelligence work for ETF

Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, in collaboration with ErreQuadro, has started a new study for the European Training Foundation (ETF) on technological change and associated skills needs in residential energy efficiency in Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.

The new assignment builds on ongoing work on skills intelligence for ETF and comes as the study Skills for critical raw materials (CRM) and defence in Western Balkans and Ukraine enters its final stage.

Both assignments examine how technological change is reshaping occupations and skills needs in strategically important sectors. The CRM and defence study has explored emerging technologies, changing occupational profiles and future skills requirements, while the new study will focus on how developments in residential energy efficiency are affecting occupations and skills demand in Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. The aim is to support more forward-looking approaches to skills development and training in the two countries. 

Across these assignments, FGB contributes country-level expertise, helping to interpret technological and labour-market trends within specific national institutional, economic and skills-system contexts. This perspective complements the technological analysis and helps translate emerging trends into policy-relevant insights on occupations, skills needs and education and training responses.

"These assignments build on a long-standing collaboration between FGB and ErreQuadro in the field of skills anticipation and technology-driven labour market analysis. Over time, the partners have jointly developed and refined a methodological approach that combines the analysis of technological trends with labour-market and skills intelligence" explains Liga Baltina, Head of FGB's Labour Market & Skills Research Unit, who coordinates the assignments for FGB.

The approach has been tested and validated across several research assignments for ETF, as well as in Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe-funded projects, allowing it to be applied across different sectors, countries and policy contexts.