Building tomorrow’s Europe’s “Mobility Industry”, and guaranteeing its sovereignty is mandatory to win the race for critical competencies and succeed the energetic transition.

The overlapping of structural challenges - due to rapid technology transition required by recent norms and regulations in Europe – and the succession of worldwide crises are currently putting the European labor market under pressure: lay-offs in some industries (ex: automotive) coexist with a lack of skilled employees in others (ex: maintenance, rail, production, but also Battery, Fuelcell, electronics, data, software, AI experts).

Success in operating that shift will heavily depend on Europe’s capacity to build a common vision of the future qualification challenges: availability of the “right” qualifications at the “right” time at the “right” place and in sufficient number. Engaging the employees by translating these challenges into opportunities where new jobs will be created, thanks to new technologies or new business models (ex: circularity) should help to accelerate the change. Helping companies to retrain their employees internally in the professions of the future while allowing them to continue producing daily and building bridges in qualifications among sectors will up-skill Europe’s workforce.