ESCO occupations mapping pilot

The ESCO occupations mapping pilot was a project to test the creation of mappings between national occupational classification systems and ESCO.

The Commission conducted the project together with the public employment services of the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands and Spain between May 2014 and December 2015.

Contents

• 1 Purpose
• 2 Methodology
• 3 Workshops
• 4 Documentation

Purpose

Purpose of the occupations mapping pilot was inter alia to:

• Identify best practices for the creation of mappings;
• Assess the effort/costs for creating and updating mappings in further detail;
• Understand which tools, documents and services can support the process and prioritise them;
• Assess what level of semantic interoperability can be reached by mapping to ESCO;
• Better understand and quantify potential benefits;
• Identify potential improvements of ESCO on a conceptual level;
• Better understand criteria for quality assessment and validation of mappings.

Methodology

The methodology of the occupations mapping pilot followed five basic steps:

• Select public employment services and classification systems to be included in the pilot;
• Create (partial) mappings, more in particular for the "Hospitality and tourism"-sector;
• Assess the results of the mappings;
• Quality improvement and validation (optional);
• Documentation and dissemination of results.

Background documents on the methodology and implementation of the occupations mapping pilot are published below.

Workshops

Participants of the occupations mapping pilot coordinated their work in workshops:

• 1st ESCO mapping pilot meeting, 16 July 2014

• 2nd ESCO mapping pilot meeting, 8 September 2014

• 3rd ESCO mapping pilot meeting, 2 July 2015

• 4th ESCO mapping pilot meeting, 3 November 2015

• 5th ESCO mapping pilot meeting, 15 December 2015

Documentation

The following main documents have been created during the work on the occupations mapping pilot:

• Semantic interoperability with ESCO: pilot phase (Concept note by the ESCO Secretariat)
• National classifications for the ESCO mapping pilot, endorsed by the ESCO Maintenance Committee in a written procedure on 26 May 2014.
• Final report of the ESCO mapping pilot