Project description
Enhancing employability of doctoral graduates
ESCO (European Skills, Competences, and Occupations) is the European multilingual classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations. It works like a dictionary, classifying professional occupations and skills relevant for the EU labour market. To enhance the employability of doctoral graduates, the EU-funded DocTalent4EU project will draw on the ESCO framework to develop a strong, visible and innovative recognition system of the most in-demand transferable skills. This will be useful for early-career researchers. The project will take a multi-actor approach involving non-academic stakeholders (e.g. public authorities, industries and business) to improve transferable skills training and to develop local talent management centres. Next, it will create a prototype based on machine learning to continuously update ESCO entries and predict the most in-demand skills.
Objective
DocTalent4EU aims to enhance PhD employability through a strong, visible and innovative recognition-system of the most in-demand transferable skills (relying on the ESCO framework) that early-career researchers (ECRs) acquire or will acquire through their doctoral training and research activities. The consortium will adopt a multi-actor approach involving non-academic stakeholders (e.g. public authorities, industries or business) to improve transferable skills training and to develop local talent management centers. The project will also develop a new prototype based on machine learning to support ESCO in continuously updating and predicting the most in-demand skills on the labour market concerning the 8 EQF level, according to the expected skills from job offer collections.
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinator
06100 Nice
France