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European Education and Culture Executive Agency
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  • 5 March 2025
  • European Education and Culture Executive Agency
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Basic skills and STEM action plan to support education and training

The European Commission presented the Union of Skills, a strategy to address the skills and labour gaps across the EU.

The Union of Skills sets out a plan to deliver higher levels of basic skills, opportunities for workers to regularly learn new and additional skills, and ease of recruitment across the European Union. It will:

  • empower people across Europe with the skills they need to develop in their professional lives
  • address gender imbalance
  • help European businesses to find the workers they need

In education, the Union of Skills focuses on basic and STEM skills.

Read more on the European Education Area website.

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Publication date
5 March 2025
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European Education and Culture Executive Agency