Laura Radulian

The Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) held its Working Group 4 (WG4) meeting on regional implementation online on June 24th, 2024, under the leadership of Michaela Palasova and Anna Spechtenhauser. This virtual gathering brought together representatives from various regions to share insights, discuss ongoing projects, and plan future initiatives for managing the green and digital transition […]

This year’s ASA annual conference, “Skills (R)Evolution in the Automotive-Mobility Ecosystem,” held in Brussels on April 10, marked the official kick-off of the TRIREME project. It brought together policymakers, industry leaders, education providers, social partners and regional representatives to tackle challenges and prospects in the automotive-mobility sector, to (r)evolutionize training and skills intelligence, preparing a

The Hydrogen VET forum in Spa is an initiative organized under the European Skills Agenda by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the FIA World Endurance Championship, the MissionH24 and its partners Automotive Skills Alliance, GreenSkillsforH2 and Skills Alliance for Industrial Symbiosis, as part of the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. The

The Regional Implementation Working Group (WG4) meeting, which took place on the 27th of March 2024 marked yet another small but important step forward in the collaborative efforts of the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA). Both in-person and virtual participants centred around the theme of collaboration and best practice sharing among member regions. One of the

There is a broad consensus that skills serve as the foundation of transformation, following the last roundtable organised under the Transition Pathways exercise organised by DG GROW on Feb 29, 2024. With the European Commission spearheading discussions and the active involvement of the Automotive Skills Alliance, the spotlight is given on collaborative efforts to navigate

The year 2023, offered ASA significant opportunities to plan and implement broad initiatives and foster networking that resonate with its core objectives and mission. The ASA’s focus stayed on the upskilling and reskilling of automotive professionals, fostering intelligence development, and encouraging dialogue among partners and stakeholders in the automotive domain at all levels: regional, national,

The European Year of Skills has focused the attention of all European Stakeholders on methods, analysis and activities meant to identify the required skills, assess existing ones, and offer solutions for up/re-skilling European professionals to prepare them to smoothly adjust to the requirements of the green and digital transition. Throughout this year, European Stakeholders from

On the 9th of November 2023 in Pamplona, in the region of Navarra, Spain, the Automotive Regions Alliance (ARA), the Interregional Group “Future of the Automotive Industry” of the European Committee of the Regions (CoRAI), and the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) have jointly expressed the aim to cooperate towards a just and sustainable transition of

The digital and green transition in the mobility ecosystem has market the beginning of a new era of technology-driven innovation and sustainability. However, its effects are not uniform across regions as there is always a socio-economic influence in each geography. The role of Automotive Skills Alliances becomes very important in this context, as is may

As announced at the beginning of the year, 2023 is considered by the EU as being the Year of Skills. The focus of all stakeholders in the European environment is to research, analyse, and come up with solutions on how Europe can build a strong, structured, and valuable framework for up-skilling and re-skilling. ASA, by