This presentation has been the last presentation at the LOD2 (http://lod2.eu) Meetup in Brussels, Belgium on 26.01.2011 at the fedict (http://www.fedict.belgium.be/) office. See also: http://lod2.eu/BlogPost/?p=203

1. ESCO
A tool to facilitate (online) skills
matching throughout Europe

2. • Developed by the European Commission in close co-
operation with relevant stakeholders.
• Part of the Europe 2020 Flagship initiative ”An agenda
for new skills and jobs”
• ESCO
• EURES
• Match & Map
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3. What is ESCO?
• European
• Skills
• Competences
• Occupations
• Qualifications
• Taxonomy
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4. ESCO - a common language between the labour market
and education / training.
Labour Skills/ Education/
Occupations Competences Qualifications
Market training

5. ESCO - an interoperability tool
• Linking together
• National classifications
• Sectoral classifications
• Facilitating exchange of information on
jobs, jobseekers, learning opportunities…
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6. ESCO – a taxonomy of occupations, skills & competences and
qualifications
ISCED +
ISCO
(21 education fields + ?
(545 occupation groups)
transversal skills)
A list of A list of
A list of
Occupation Skills
names and Qualifications
competences
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7. ESCO v.0
ISCO88 – Underwater workers
Occupations Competences/ Skills
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8. ESCO v.1 and onwards
OCCUPATIONS SKILLS QUALIFICATIONS
< Professionals
&
(ISCO)
COMPETENCES
< Other Professionals
< Law
< Legal Prof.
< Lawyers < Civil Law < Tax Law < Languages
O1 O2 O3 O4 S1 S2 S3 S4
S4 S5
S5 Q1 Q2 Q3
ESCO Occupation
Relations between concepts: ESCO Skill/Competency
Narrower Required: Not yet defined:
Broader Recommended: ESCO Qualification
Related to Optional: ISCO Occupation group

9. 1 ISCO
2 Occupation names and
3 skills in national,
4 sectoral or other
ESCO 5 taxonomies can be
mapped to ESCO and
A B
thereby ensure
semantic
interoperability
Taxonomy X

10. What can ESCO be used for?
Application Examples
Information Performance
Job Matching at Guidance & Forecasting &
on learning management,
matching skills level counselling planning
opportunities appraisals
Labour Skills/ Education/
Occupations Qualications
Market Competences Training
ESCO as a ’common language’ makes all this possible across countries, sectors, organisations…

11. ESCO is knowledge

12. EURES – a platform for exchange of
vacancies and CVs

13. Matching & mapping
Matching between
• job offers
• candidates’ profiles
• learning opportunities
Geographic mapping of the results
EURES EURES CVs Learning
vacancies (Europass) opportunities
(Ploteus)
Employers’ CVs on
search other sites
profiles
Web robots E-portfolios Other sites
… … ...
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14. Dissemination & availability
• Downloadable via the internet (XLS, XML,SKOS, …)
• Available online (API, Web services, Linked Open Data)

15. Thank you !