The Large -scale Skills Partnership (LSP) for Space Data, Services and Applications (SPACE4GEO), promoted under the European Commission’s (EC) initiative Pact for Skills, aims to empower workers with the skills needed for the development of future innovations and to achieve the aims of the EU’s Space strategies.
In line with the principles governing the Pact for Skills and its Charter, the proposed LSP wishes to ensure continuous exchange and cooperation among stakeholders from the academic, private and public sectors on skills development and requirements.
To this purpose, the partners are committing to establish and deliver a shared understanding of the volume of skills needs and capacity requirements needed (in the short, medium and long term) to achieve the high level vision of a successful space downstream and geoinformation sector.
The vision is being translated into strategic commitments which will lead to a certain impact that contributes to bridging the skills gaps and mismatches and an improved user uptake of space data, services and applications.
Specific commitments for the Partnership are:
- To monitor the occupational supply and demand to identify the skills and competences required and provide feedback on the evolving sector needs.
- To help and guide candidate learners in their skilling, upskilling and reskilling efforts, supporting them to access quality training, promoting upskilling and reskilling of 3.5% of the workforce each year by 2030 across the ecosystem.
- To facilitate and stimulate a more integrated and inclusive approach on skills development across different value chains (vertical sectors) and at different levels, including local and regional level.
- To encourage citizens’ engagement, citizens’ science practices and hands-on activities enhancing the inclusion/recognition of space downstream and geoinformation applications’ value in everyday aspects of life, also attracting new talents to the present and emerging space geospatial professions.
To this purpose, EARSC as the partner of SPACE4GEO has committed to contribute to the establishment and delivery of a shared understanding of the volume of skills needs and capacity requirements needed (in the short, medium and long term) to achieve the high-level vision of a successful space downstream and geoinformation sector, as the latter faces a number of challenges, including a gender imbalanced workforce, an aging society and a shortage of relevant skills.
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