ASA News

The importance of professional skills in sustaining the Green Transition in European regions was at the centre of the latest ASA event in Brussels. On October 10th, the Trnava Region Brussels Office hosted a workshop on “Pact for Skills – Enabling the green transition in automotive regions”. The workshop connected professionals from the automotive industry from

The upskilling and reskilling of the automotive workforce throughout the entire value chain has been at the centre of the first conference organised by the Automotive Skills Alliance. “Skills in continuous transition? Bringing together human approach and technological changes in the automotive ecosystem” held in Stuttgart on 29 and 30 September thanks to the support

Under the EU Committee of the Regions (CoR), the Automotive Regions Alliance (ARA) has been created to support a fair and successful transition for automotive regions along the entire value chain, guaranteeing that no region is left behind. The Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) is a key initiative in support of the sector’s transformation through identifying

The main Automotive sector organisations have launched a joint vision for the transition pathway of the mobility ecosystem, that includes a call on the need to update the transition policies in light of the current crisis, including the Skills Agenda.  The paper has been signed by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), the European Council for Motor

The Pulse Check is a survey conducted twice a year among CLEPA’s members, the European association representing automotive suppliers. In the first edition of this year’s Pulse Check, published in March, it emerged that R&D is considered a key area to invest in, primarily through acquiring new talent, even if there are widespread difficulties in

On 24th March 2022, DRIVES held its final event presenting the results achieved during the four years of the project. The latter regarded the development of actions to satisfy the skills needed to support the strategy of the EU automotive sector.   The keynote for this event was given by Julie Fionda, Deputy Head of Unit Skills

After more than four years of work since its launch in January 2018, the closing event of the DRIVES project will take place online on Thursday 24 March, from 9.30 to 13.00 CET. Manuela Geleng, Director for Jobs and Skills at DG EMPL of the European Commission will be the keynote speaker at this event.

The last edition of the EU Industry Days, which took place in early February, put the issue of skills at the centre of its program. Several stakeholders were involved in dialogues on transition pathways and discussed how policies at the European, national, regional, and local levels could foster innovation and create jobs and growth in