The 10th of February 2022, the Commission officially presented the latest ESCO major version-ESCO v1.1- in an online webinar with more than 350 stakeholders from across Europe and beyond.

To kick-start the event, the European Commissioner for Jobs and Social rights, Nicolas Schmit expressed his appreciation to all ESCO stakeholders that contributed to its development via a video message.

The webinar’s agenda included three main presentations and time for questions and answers from the audience. More concretely, stakeholders learned about:

• What is new in this major version and the methodology for this continuous improvement process;
• How this affects existing users and more generally how to access ESCO data;
• ESCO’s plans and concrete examples of using artificial intelligence to continuously maintain the classification.·  

The video recordings of the presentations can be found on this link.

The Commission would like to thank once again all ESCO stakeholders for their continuous collaboration and feedback on ESCO, which is crucial for keeping it aligned with the needs of the EU labour market and education and training.