The COVID-19 pandemic, digitalisation and decarbonisation are having an enormous impact on the European economy, industries, and the European workforce who are facing a very challenging adaptation to rapidly changing work. The pandemic has accelerated structural changes in many sectors, increasing the pace of the green and digital transformations. This is allied to the ongoing challenges of demographic change, new training needs and skills mismatches.

In this regard, the ACVT has prepared the following opinion in view of the Commission’s planned initiative on individual learning accounts.