Improving ESCO as a reference system for the cultural and creative sectors and industries

A new publication issued by the Creative FLIP project suggests strategies to improve the representation of cultural-creative occupations and skills in ESCO.

ESCO (European Skills, Competences and Occupations) is a taxonomy designed to support the mobility of Europe’s workforce and as such has the potential to serve also the highly mobile workers in the cultural and creative sectors and indu­stries (CCSI). However, ESCO currently does not represent the CCSI in a manner that is com­pre­hen­si­ve and dif­fe­ren­tia­ted enough for the needs of their stake­hol­ders, nor does it offer easy access to cultural-creative content. Consequently, also the European systems and services using ESCO to inform about (e.g. Cedefop’s Skills OVATE), advertise (e.g. Europass) or mediate (e.g. EURES job portal) skills and occu­pa­ti­ons, fail to highlight the labour market con­tri­bu­ti­on of the CCSI, or at least fail to make this con­tri­bu­ti­on easily accessible.The Creative FLIP project developed several sug­ge­sti­ons to improve the current situation.

Details can be found in the recently published report Improving ESCO as a Reference System for the CCSI, authored by Claudia Plaimauer (3s) and Chris van Goethem (Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound).