Angeliki Dedopoulou is EU Affairs adviser to DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission for the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) project. Her main focus is the ESCO project and its use in related initiatives, such as the EU Skills Profile for Third Country Nationals, EUROPASS and the Blueprint for sectoral cooperation on skills. Angeliki is also Solutions Team Leader at everis, an NTT Data company. She is an expert for digital solutions in European skills and employment policy. Angeliki studied Political Science and History, Sociology and European governance in Greece, France and Luxembourg. Currently, Angeliki is part of an everis group that aims to analyse the uptake of new solutions and techniques for the labour market. She is leading a proof of concept aimed at ensuring the trust in non-formal and informal learning by using Blockchain technology.
ABSTRACT
ESCO: An overview
Angeliki will give an introduction to the multilingual ESCO classification. ESCO can be used to describe occupations, skills, competences qualifications in documents, such as job vacancies, CVs and potentially in digital qualifications and credentials. Angeliki will showcase some examples of online applications that already use ESCO in their systems.
everis : A vision on credentials based on EU standards job profiles
Angeliki will explain how everis intends to create job profiles based on European standards such as the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF) and the European Classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO). Thanks to a better definition of its job profiles, everis can identify the skills gaps of its employees and define the right training for them. After the completion of these training prograrammes, everis will issue credentials validated through blockchain technology.