2025 – ASA Year in Review
Connecting All for Skilled Europe’s Mobility Future
2025 has been a significant year for the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) – a year of acceleration, expansion, and consolidation across Europe’s rapidly transforming automotive-mobility ecosystem. From sustainability driven innovation and digital skills transition to policy dialogues and regional engagement, ASA has consolidated its position as Europe’s leading partnership for automotive skills under the EU Pact for Skills.
Throughout 2025, ASA mainly focused on:
- Advancing concrete skills intelligence, training, and innovation initiatives across the automotive value chain, especially through its projects
- Deepening regional cooperation and capacity
- Supporting EU-level transformation agendas
- Contributed to EU-level strategic dialogues shaping the future of the European automotive industry and skills agenda
- Strengthened ASA’s role as the leading automotive partnership under the EU Pact for Skills
- Launched the Regional Skills Partnership for the Automotive Regions’ Twin Transition
- Deepened cooperation with automotive regions across Europe through ARA and CoRAI
- Delivered Sectoral Skills Intelligence (Release I & II) analysing labour shortages and future skills needs (TRIREME)
- Developed new 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.
Let’s have a more detailed look at ASA’s 2025 milestones!
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 mentioned proposals on skills intelligence, sector partnerships, and the development of an automotive mobility ecosystem academy. These messages were further supported at the European Employment and Social Rights Forum, where ASA highlighted the urgent need to reinforce 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 in and support of high-level regional meetings of the Automotive Regions Alliance in Strasbourg and Munich , linking EU policy implementation with regional needs.
- A full calendar of regional showcases, including features on Castilla y León, Grand Est, Gothenburg, and Trnava, illustrating how regions prepare their workforce for new mobility technologies.
- Study visit in Timișoara (RO) , complementing previous study visits in Stuttgart (DE) and the 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, which are increasingly shaping the sector’s skills landscape.
Project TRIREME – Sectoral Skills Strategy in Action
TRIREME advanced significantly in 2025, delivering:
- TRIREME publications – 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 April and October , focusing on job roles, training offers, regional rollout, and policy recommendations.
- Training courses translating skills intelligence into concrete learning offers.
The project cemented the partnership ability to translate skills intelligence into concrete education and training pathways.
Other Key Initiatives
- PIECE project delivered training materials for the Digital Product Passport (DPP), including train-the-trainer sessions in Lisbon and pilot activities across partner countries.
- CaBatt project concluded its cross-border teacher training in battery topics with the BattForum and the Batt Teachers Forum 2025 .
- VOLTAGE project continued developing micro-credentials, battery upskilling, and train-the-trainer (ToT) sessions, including training activities at Sweden’s Battery Centre in Gothenburg.
- GREEN project highlighted the role of VET in the green transition at its final conference in Brussels.
- The FLAMENCO project concluded in 2025 ( project website ).
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 – Over 90 participants, 21 speakers, and deep dives into future skills perspectives, supported by TRIREME, FLAMENCO, and GREEN results.
- Hydrogen VET Forum 2025 – An innovative VET experience blending hydrogen training with motorsport technology demonstrations.
- Batt Teachers Forum 2025 – Connecting the training of teachers and trainers with the future of the automotive sector.
- EuroSPI 2025 – ASA served as a full conference partner, contributing to discussions on digitalisation, cybersecurity, e-mobility, and sectoral process improvement. TRIREME results were showcased to a large expert audience.
- EU Industry Days 2025 – ASA highlighted the importance of cluster cooperation and STEM education in driving innovation.
- IAA Mobility 2025 (Munich) and EVS38 – Reinforcing ASA’s message that skills are the engine of automotive innovation.
- European Week of Regions and Cities – ASA participated in co-hosted sessions (session highlights), emphasising the importance of 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 courses in cybersecurity, battery safety, green mobility, automation, innovation, and change management
- Pilot Learning Paths in development, offering combinations of training courses from different providers to support progression toward specific job roles
- Access the TRIREME publication
The Skills Hub continues to grow as the 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 its main milestones:
- 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
- A maturing governance structure with topic committees (technology, social aspects, education, regional dimension), working groups (Key Competences / soft skills in the Automotive-Mobility Ecosystem, Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) Regional Implementation Working Group, Innovation Agent Working Group, ASA Battery Working Group, Blockchain in Mobility Sector), and task forces
- Register for ASA Working Groups and Topic Committees
- A shared commitment to making Europe’s workforce ready for the mobility revolution
The anniversary article and celebrations highlighted ASA’s evolution from a Pact for Skills partnership to a leading ecosystem builder.
Looking Ahead: A Clear Vision for 2026 and Beyond
As ASA is preparing to enter 2026, the direction is clear: Connect. Consolidate. Scale.
Priorities moving forward:
- Implementation of concrete actions, with support to EU institutions and the delivery of the Union of Skills
- Support to the launch of a sectoral academy addressing future mobility topics such as Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility, Electromobility, Cybersecurity, and more, serving as a one-stop gateway for access to education and training solutions, learning pathways, and collaboration
- Strengthening skills intelligence, monitoring, and foresight
- Scaling regional pilots, teacher training, and cross-border cooperation
- Expanding training innovation in batteries, hydrogen, circularity, digitalisation, and mobility services
2025 has 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
A huge THANK you to all members, partners, regions, educators, companies, and individuals for this Year of Action, Collaboration, and Momentum. Together, we are shaping a resilient, innovative, and future-ready mobility ecosystem for Europe.
Looking forward to a strong and collaborative 2026!