How can stronger partnerships across sectors help Europe build the skills needed for the future?
As technologies, industries, and labour markets continue to evolve, building the right skills requires closer collaboration between education, industry, public authorities, and other stakeholders. Stronger connections across sectors can help ensure that skills development responds to changing needs, supports innovation, and creates meaningful opportunities for learners and workers.
Join the “Partnerships for Skills – Building Bridges Across Sectors” webinar online on 14 October 2026 for a discussion on how cross-sector partnerships can contribute to stronger and more responsive skills ecosystems across Europe. The event will explore how shared knowledge, coordinated action, and sustained collaboration can help bridge the gap between education and the labour market, while supporting innovation and future workforce needs.
Through insights and practical perspectives, the webinar will highlight how collaboration between education providers, industry, and other sectors can improve skills planning, strengthen knowledge exchange, foster applied innovation, and create stronger connections between learning and the world of work.
What will you take away from this event?
- Insights into how cross-sector partnerships can strengthen skills ecosystems.
- Perspectives on aligning education and training with evolving workforce needs.
- Practical approaches to improving skills planning through collaboration.
- Examples of how partnerships can support knowledge exchange and applied innovation.
- A deeper understanding of how education, industry, and other stakeholders can work together to address skills gaps.
Who should attend?
- Higher education and vocational education and training professionals.
- Industry representatives and employers.
- Policymakers and public sector representatives.
- Skills and workforce development organisations.
- Educators, researchers, and training providers.
- Innovation and entrepreneurship practitioners.
- Organisations working to strengthen links between education and the labour market.
- Anyone interested in cross-sector collaboration and the future of skills.
The “Partnerships for Skills – Building Bridges Across Sectors” webinar provides an opportunity to exchange perspectives on how sustained collaboration can help build more connected, innovative, and future-ready skills ecosystems across Europe.
Join the conversation and explore how partnerships can build bridges between sectors, strengthen skills development, and prepare Europe’s workforce for the future.