The Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) partnership welcomes the number of initiatives presented within the Union of Skills in March 2025 and is keen to support the implementation of the Union’s objectives.
Building on ASA priorities published in November 2024, ASA and its members feel a strong commitment to support the activities of the European Commission and would like further contribute to successful implementation through both existing and new initiatives:
– We are proposing a recognition and support of the Automotive and Mobility Academy (AMEA) as a pilot industry-wide EU Skills Academy, as proposed by the European Commission in the Union of Skills. Given ASA’s experience as a leader in the Pact for Skills, and its network covering more than 120 members across the value chain, combined with experience of piloting best practices via ERASMUS+ projects, such as TRIREME.
– We, ASA and our partners, could serve as an intelligence observatory in the area of automotive and mobility. ASA and its partners have network, coverage and access to skills intelligence in the sector in Europe.
– The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), one of the founding members of ASA, recently announced a partnership with the Adecco Group to deepen its work on skills development in the automotive sector, further strengthening its support for intelligence gathering to inform policy-making.
Given the strategic importance of the automotive sector for Europe’s economy and competitiveness, the AMEA should serve as a pioneering testing ground for the EU-wide industrial academies. The sector’s complexity, innovation potential, and pan-European value chains make it an ideal pilot environment for fast, pragmatic, and industry-oriented solutions that can support systemic skills transformation and inspire broader uptake across other industrial ecosystems.
Automotive Skills Alliance’s concrete proposal views AMEA as a single one-stop shop gateway for all industry stakeholders, educational providers, social partners, member states, regions and regional players – such as clusters. The proposal is already being implemented through the piloting of partial solutions and is ready for broader and faster pragmatic implementation to speed-up the Union of skills rollout across all member states.