Pact for Skills – Newsletter September 2025

Welcome to the latest edition of the Pact for Skills newsletter! 

This summer, we launched three new Regional Skills Partnerships! Two RSPs aim to improve the agri-food industry in the Campania and Piemonte regions of Italy, with more vocational training and lifelong learning opportunities. The other is focused on sustainability for the French Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes textiles industry. Check out their commitments below. 

As we head into the autumn, we have two new Pact for Skills events to look forward to: a new Knowledge Event ‘Upskilling and Reskilling for the Digital and Green Transition’ this September and the Pact for Skills networking event in October. Read on for more details of the events! 

We also have a new video from Euronews to share celebrating the CPIFP Javier Imbroda training institute, an organisation helping Andalusian workers enter the aerospace industry. 

And finally, we shine a spotlight on InnoGlobal, a Pact member boosting training and employment across energy-intensive industries like steel, chemicals, water and rare minerals processing by developing new tools through upskilling and reskilling initiatives. 

Read on to learn more about each story.

The next Networking Event for Pact members is on Wednesday 23 October 2025 at 10:00 – 15:00 CEST!

This event is an opportunity for members to network with peers, exchange experiences and inspire people and organisations across different partnerships and ecosystems. 

This your chance to: 

·          increase the visibility of good practices you have implemented;

·          receive practical guidance and resources;

·          and network with organisations who are delivering similar activities in upskilling and reskilling.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to discuss current challenges and opportunities related to upskilling and reskilling with other Pact members! 

Remember, this event is for Pact members only. Keep an eye on your mailbox for your link to register when registrations open on 15 September.

This summer, the Pact for Skills launched three new Regional Skills Partnerships (RSPs) that aim to build a long-term, coordinated approach to upskilling and reskilling across the regions’ agri-food and textile ecosystems. 

Two RSPs come from the agri-food sector. The Campania RSP aims to make agri-food jobs more attractive to young people and sustainably grow the sector and help smaller agricultural producers through opportunities for lifelong learning, skills certification and digitalisation. 

Similarly, the Piemonte RSP is building a long-term culture of upskilling and reskilling for the region’s agri-food sector. The RSP is focusing on vocational education and training to deal with the changing job profiles of workers due to factors like seasonal work, automation and changes to the environment. 

The RSP for Textile Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is focused on sustainability in textiles. The RSP assists companies in meeting the evolving skills requirements related to recycled dyeing, eco-design, and training future trainers, resulting from increasing energy costs, limited raw materials, and the needs of ecological transition.

As part of the Pact for Skills, the CPIFP Javier Imbroda institute aligns education with labour market needs while expanding access across age groups. 

With a focus on mobility, women, and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers, it embodies the goals of the Union of Skills initiative – helping students and workers to change career paths and gain the training they need. CPIFP Javier Imbroda is the largest vocational education project in Andalusia and received funding from the European Social Fund Plus initiative. As part of the ‘Make it Work’ video series, Euronews interviewed students at the institute to find out how the centre is training students for a career in the aerospace industry. 

The Euronews story explains that CPIFP Javier Imbroda provides opportunities for people seeking a career change and has committed to helping students and workers gain the training they need to pursue their professional goals, launching careers across Europe.

This month, we interviewed InnoGlobal, a leading Skills and Technology institute, to find out what motivated them to join the Pact for Skills.

They shared the key lessons and the outcomes of their work, which have contributed to the EU funded project Skills Alliance for the Green, Digital and Social Transformation of the Energy Intensive Industries’ (Skills4EII) target of reaching 2.3 million workers annually by 2025.

Through the Pact for Skills, InnoGlobal collaborates with other Pact for Skills members like the Industry 5.0 Community of Practice and the Skills4EII initiative, spanning 34 partners across 11 EU Member States.

Encouraging other organisations that have not yet joined the Pact, they said,

‘Companies – particularly SMEs – should see the Pact for Skills as a gateway to innovation, funding, and peer learning in workforce development […] We’ve saved months of development time by adapting resources shared by the Pact community. For SMEs with limited capacity, this is a game-changer.’
 

Is your organisation looking for funding streams to support concrete upskilling and reskilling actions on the ground? The Pact for Skills has you covered!

Our funding opportunities database and search tool is updated monthly to include key information on open and upcoming calls for proposals under a wide range of EU programmes like Erasmus+, Digital Europe, Horizon Europe, Creative Europe.

You can also look up relevant opportunities by checking the European Commission’s EU Funding and Tenders Portal, where you can explore available funding opportunities related to your topics of interest, find partners and submit proposals.