The Action Plan on Basic Skills just published
07/04/2025
The Union of Skills emerges from a consultation process, incorporating insights from previous forums and stakeholder discussions. Vice-President Mînzatu emphasised that this initiative is a “living product” rather than a rigid framework, continuously evolving based on real-world feedback and new labor market challenges.
The first concrete deliverable of this initiative — the Action Plan on Basic Skills — was officially released in March 2025, marking a significant step toward achieving the EU’s 2030 targets for education and training.
What’s in the Action Plan?
Among the key actions are:
- A Basic Skills Support Scheme to tackle underachievement from an early age
- Better teaching practices through mentoring, training and sharing of proven methods
- European School Alliances to foster pupil mobility and co-develop innovative pedagogies
- Smarter use of digital education tools to enhance learning environments
The goal is to reduce the number of underachieving learners to 15% by 2030.
At EARLALL, we welcome this new Action Plan as a crucial step toward making lifelong learning accessible, inclusive, and responsive to real societal needs.
We are proud to be part of this collective effort. Through close collaboration with our member regions and within our Working Group on Lifelong Guidance & Ageing Societies and, we will contribute actively to the success of the Union of Skills initiative.
By reinforcing local and regional strategies and sharing best practices across our network, EARLALL is committed to helping meet the targets of the European Skills and Education Agenda.
