Connecting All for Skilled Europe’s Mobility Future
2025 in Focus: What ASA Delivered
Throughout 2025, ASA mainly focused on advancing concrete actions across the automotive value chain, strengthening regional cooperation, supporting EU-level transformation agendas, and deepening strategic dialogues shaping Europe’s automotive industry and skills agenda.
Key highlights
- Strengthened ASA’s role as the leading automotive partnership under the EU Pact for Skills
- Contributed to EU-level strategic dialogues shaping the future of the European automotive industry and skills agenda
- Deepened regional cooperation and capacity through ARA and CoRAI
- Launched the Regional Skills Partnership for the Automotive Regions’ Twin Transition
- Delivered Sectoral Skills Intelligence (Release I & II) analysing labour shortages and future skills needs (TRIREME)
- Developed Skills Cards, competence matrices, and training roadmaps for emerging automotive job roles
- Rolled out TRIREME training courses translating skills intelligence into concrete learning pathways
- Advanced Digital Product Passport training with pilots and train-the-trainer sessions across Europe (PIECE)
- Completed cross-border battery teacher training and organised BattForum events in Finland and the Czech Republic (CaBatt)
- Expanded battery upskilling, micro-credentials, and train-the-trainer activities across Europe (VOLTAGE)
- Highlighted the role of VET in the green transition at the GREEN project final conference in Brussels
- Successfully concluded the FLAMENCO project, strengthening sectoral collaboration models
- Organised and contributed to major European events including the ASA Annual Conference, EuroSPI, EWRC, Industry Days, IAA Mobility, EVS38, and Hydrogen VET Forum
- Showcased regional skills transformation through study visits and regional showcases across Europe
- Expanded the ASA Skills Hub to over 500 mapped training courses across key mobility domains
- Integrated micro-credentials, Digital Product Passport training, and circular economy learning offers into the platform
- Developed pilot learning paths combining courses from multiple providers toward specific job roles
- Grew ASA to over 120 members from industry, academia, regions, clusters, and social partners
- Delivered impact through more than 15 EU-funded projects shaping Europe’s mobility skills ecosystem
- Celebrated ASA’s 5th Anniversary, marking its evolution into a mature European skills ecosystem builder
- Set a clear direction for 2026 with a focus on scaling impact, launching a sectoral academy, and strengthening Europe’s future mobility workforce
As we close the year, the actions speak for themselves: stronger collaboration, more impactful projects, a growing community of members, and tangible progress toward a future-ready workforce.
A Strong Start to the Year: Skills at the Center of the EU Agenda
The year opened with ASA engaged in European dialogues on skills and industry transformation.
In February, ASA contributed to the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry, where ASA President Jakub Stolfa presented proposals on skills intelligence, sector partnerships, and the development of an automotive mobility ecosystem academy.
These messages were further reinforced at the European Employment and Social Rights Forum, where ASA highlighted the urgent need to strengthen STEM pathways, lifelong learning, and innovation-driven training.
Strengthening the Regional Pillar: Collaboration Where Transformation Happens
In 2025, through ongoing work with the Automotive Regions Alliance (ARA) and CoRAI, ASA intensified efforts to bridge European ambitions with regional realities.
Key regional highlights
- Launch of the Regional Skills Partnership for the Automotive Regions’ Twin Transition, reinforcing cooperation on skills intelligence, monitoring, and training deployment
- Participation and support of high-level ARA meetings in Strasbourg and Munich, linking EU policy implementation with regional needs
- Regional showcases featuring Castilla y León, Grand Est, Gothenburg, and Trnava, illustrating how regions prepare their workforce for new mobility technologies
- Study Visits in Timișoara (RO), complementing earlier visits in Stuttgart (DE) and Grand Est (FR), providing hands-on insights into skills challenges and solutions across Europe’s automotive clusters
These actions strengthened ASA’s role as a connector in the skills agenda, ensuring that regions remain at the forefront of the green and digital transition.
Major Project Milestones: TRIREME, VOLTAGE, PIECE, CaBatt & more
2025 was a milestone year for ASA’s collaborative projects, increasingly shaping the sector’s skills landscape across Europe.
Project TRIREME – Sectoral Skills Strategy in Action
TRIREME advanced significantly in 2025, delivering:
- Sectoral Skills Intelligence — Release I & Release II, analysing labour shortages, transformation pressures, and future skills needs
- New Skills Cards, highlighting evolving job roles
- Training roadmaps and competence matrices aligned with industry needs
- High-impact partnership meetings in Ostrava (April) and Madrid (October), focusing on job roles, training offers, regional rollout, and policy recommendations
- TRIREME training courses translating intelligence into concrete learning pathways
The project cemented the partnership’s ability to translate skills intelligence into practical education and training solutions.
Other key initiatives
- PIECE delivered training materials for the Digital Product Passport (DPP), with train-the-trainers in Lisbon and pilots across partners’ countries
- CaBatt concluded cross-border teacher training in battery topics with BattForum events in Finland and the Czech Republic
- VOLTAGE continued developing micro-credentials, battery upskilling, and ToT sessions, including training at Sweden’s Battery Centre (Gothenburg)
- GREEN highlighted the role of VET in the green transition at its final conference in Brussels
- FLAMENCO successfully concluded in 2025, strengthening sectoral collaboration models
Together, these projects contributed to a Europe-wide upskilling ecosystem in batteries, sustainability, digitalisation, and manufacturing innovation.
Events That Shaped the Year: Putting Skills on the European Map
2025 was marked by a strong ASA presence at major European events:
- ASA Annual Conference (Ostrava) — over 90 participants, 21 speakers, and deep dives into future skills perspectives, supported by TRIREME, FLAMENCO, and GREEN results
- Hydrogen VET Forum (Spa-Francorchamps) — an innovative VET experience blending hydrogen training with motorsport technology demonstrations
- Teacher & Trainer Training for Batteries (Ostrava) — connecting educators and trainers across borders
- EuroSPI 2025 (Riga) — ASA as a full partner conference, contributing to discussions on digitalisation, cybersecurity, e-mobility, and sectoral process improvement; TRIREME results showcased to a large expert audience
- Industry Days 2025 (Rzeszów) — spotlight on cluster cooperation and STEM education as innovation drivers
- IAA Mobility 2025 (Munich) and EVS38 (Gothenburg) — reinforcing the message: skills are the engine of automotive innovation
- European Week of Regions and Cities (EWRC) — co-hosted sessions on skills transformation and regional resilience, emphasizing cross-level collaboration
These engagements expanded ASA’s visibility and influence within European policy and industrial communities.
Expanding Training and Skills Intelligence: A Growing Skills Hub
Throughout 2025, ASA’s Skills Hub and Learning Platform expanded significantly:
- 500+ mapped courses across Europe
- New training offers in cybersecurity, battery safety, green mobility, automation, innovation, and change management
- Pilot Learning Paths combining courses from different providers toward specific job roles
- TRIREME courses connecting intelligence directly with learning pathways
The Skills Hub continues to grow as a central reference point for training across the mobility ecosystem.
A Major 2025 Milestone: ASA Turned 5
On 10 November 2025, ASA celebrated its 5th Anniversary — a moment to reflect on major milestones and the evolution of ASA into a mature European skills ecosystem builder.
What 5 years of ASA represent
- 120+ members across industry, academia, clusters, regions, and social partners
- 15+ EU projects shaping training and skills development
- Regional pilots and clusters advancing real-world transformation
- Maturing governance with topic committees (technology, social aspects, education, regional dimension), working groups (Key Competencies / soft skills; Regional Implementation; Innovation Agent; Battery; Blockchain in Mobility) and task forces
- A shared commitment to making Europe’s workforce ready for the mobility revolution
Get involved: Register for working groups and topic committees to help shape the next wave of skills actions across Europe’s mobility ecosystem.
Looking Ahead: A Clear Vision for 2026 and Beyond
As ASA prepares to enter 2026, the direction is clear: Connect. Consolidate. Scale.
Priorities moving forward
- Implementation of concrete actions, while supporting EU institutions and the rollout of the Union of Skills
- Support the launch of a sectoral academy focused on Future Mobility topics such as Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility, Electromobility, Cybersecurity, and more — as a one-stop gateway for training solutions, pathways, and collaboration
- Strengthen skills intelligence, monitoring, and foresight
- Scale regional pilots, teacher training, and cross-border cooperation
- Expand training innovation in batteries, hydrogen, circularity, digitalisation, and mobility services
2025 demonstrated the strength of the ASA community. By linking industry and industrial associations and clusters, education and training providers, national and regional authorities, and social partners, ASA continues to transform challenges into opportunities and provide Europe with the skilled workforce needed for the future of the mobility sector.
The foundations laid in 2025 set the stage for an even more impactful 2026.