Call for applications for the selection of observers in the ESCO Member States Working Group

Rolling call for applications

 

The Commission is calling for applications  with a view to appointing a number of observers who will participate to the works of the ESCO Member States Working Group.

 

This call is addressed to organisations, candidate countries, EEA countries, or public entities other than Member States’ authorities. Each observer shall nominate one expert as a representative to the group.

 

The observers and their representatives should have experience and knowledge in some or all of the following fields:

 

• Development, management, dissemination or usage of taxonomies, metadata, controlled vocabularies and/or classification systems;
• Terminologies used in the labour market, education or training, in particular related to occupations, competences, qualifications and learning outcomes;
• European/international standards, frameworks or classifications used in the labour market, education or training, such as ISCO, NACE, EQF, e-Competence Framework, ISCED, etc.;
• National or international classification systems.

 

The representatives should have good English language skills.

 

Observers and their representatives may be permitted by the Chair to take part in the discussions and provide expertise. However, they shall not have voting rights and shall not participate in the formulation of recommendations or advice of the expert group or sub-group.

 

Observers should be prepared:

• to attend meetings systematically;
• to contribute actively to discussions;
• to champion ESCO within and beyond their work areas;
• to be involved in preparatory work ahead of meeting;
• to examine and provide comments on documents under discussion; 
• to act, as appropriate, as 'rapporteurs' on ad hoc basis.

 

Observers should also inform the Commission services in case of any potential or actual conflict of interest.

 

This is a rolling call and applications will be admitted until the end of the Group mandate.

 

Application procedure

 

Interested individuals are invited to submit their application to the Commission, Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) by e-mail to the following e-mail address: EMPL-ESCO-SECRETARIAT@ec.europa.eu. The message should indicate in "Subject": "Application as observer to the ESCO Member States Working Group".

 

Applications must be completed in one of the official languages of the European Union. However, applications in English would facilitate the evaluation procedure. If another language is used, it would be helpful to include a summary of the application in English.

 

An application will be deemed admissible only if it includes all the required supporting documents. All documents submitted by applicants should be duly filled in, legible, signed and numbered sequentially.

 

More details about the open call can be found  here.