Attracting Global Skills and Talents to EU's cities and regions
The European Union's strategic approach to legal migration has, as one of its key elements, the facilitation of the recognition of qualifications and skills of third-country nationals. One of the challenges in such facilitation comes from the fact that EU member States have diverse qualifications and education systems, which are a primary competence of the Member States.
BIICL has been commissioned by the European Committee of the Regions to undertake a research study aimed at exploring current practices across the EU and identifying promising practices in EU regions that have developed frameworks and procedures to facilitate the recognition of qualifications and skills of third-country nationals and successfully integrated third-country nationals into their labour market.
The study is based on desk research, a survey of municipalities across Europe and case studies. The study provides recommendations on how to attract skilled workers to EU cities and regions facing the talent development trap, looking at the facilitation of the recognition of qualifications and skills of third-country nationals as one of the tools for achieving this objective.
