Pact for Skills
in Construction

The Pact for Skills is one of the key initiatives of the European Skills Agenda, which seeks to foster collaboration between companies, educational institutions, public authorities and other key actors to improve professional skills in strategic sectors such as construction.

This European initiative aims to:

Train and retrain millions of workers, helping organisations to adapt to current challenges such as digitalisation or the ecological transition.

Through the Pact, members can access expert knowledge on training needs, funding opportunities and a growing European community.

In the field of construction, the Pact promotes sectoral alliances to design innovative training pathways, modernise VET and attract new profiles, especially young people and women, thus fostering a more competitive, inclusive and future-proof sector.

Pact for Skills in Construction

The EU sectoral social partners of the construction industry, EFBWW and FIEC, in cooperation with EBC, publish the Pact for Skills in Construction, an initiative promoted by the European Commission in the framework of the EU Skills Agenda.

Calling for concrete commitments by construction and education stakeholders at all levels, this Pact aims at mobilising a concerted effort among private and public partners for quality investment in vocational education and training, as well as in knowledge, skills and competences to the benefit the European construction sector workforce.

To better promote current and upcoming career options in construction, we developed this Pact for Skills in Construction, which identifies: