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ESCO, the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations, has been published on the European Union Open Data Portal.

ESCO will be main topic of a panel discussion on a high-level seminar on 17 November in Brussels. The Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee will co-organise the event entitled

Following a call for expressions of interest by experts to join the Maintenance Committee, the Commission has established a new committee.

The first meeting of the new ESCO Board was held on 16 September 2014 in Brussels. 

In a conference room with more than 400 representatives of universities, translators' associations, free-lance translators, Member-States' ministries, media and EU institutions, ESCO was presented

After consulting the ESCO Board and the ESCO Maintenance Committee, the Commission launched a pilot project for interoperability with ESCO.

Currently, ESCO is being developed together with stakeholders and experts grouped according to their professional expertise around 11 Sectoral Reference Groups and the Cross-sector Reference Group.

The Commission has made an overhaul of the ESCO portal since it was launched in October 2013 with the release of the ESCO classification v0.   Maintaining a similar style and colour scheme, the revamp

On 23-24 October, the European Commission launched the classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) during the conference "ESCO Goes Live" in Brussels. 350

The now public ESCO v0 is a classification of skills and competences, occupations and qualifications. In total the classification contains more than 200 000 terms.