News & events

On the 11th of June 2015 the ESCO Secretariat was invited to attend the Training Committee of UEAPME, the employer’s organisation representing the interests of crafts, trades and SMEs at European

On 24 June 2015, the ESCO team presented the ESCO project to the Civil Dialogue Group on Forestry and Cork. It informed the group in particular of the upcoming online consultation in the "Wood

The European Commission launched the ESCO mapping pilot in the summer of 2014.

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.