Projects Under the Same Mission
Find out more about the projects that share the mission of DS4Skills in deploying the European Skills Data Space and enhancing digital skills and employment opportunities across Europe.
DS4Skills
The Data Space for Skills (DS4Skills) was a 1-year project aimed at preparing the ground for the development of an open and trusted European Data Space for Skills that would support sharing and accessing skills data.
Funded by the European Commission under the Digital Europe Programme, the project involved 14 ambitious partners from the industry, education, and data ecosystem sectors.
Coordinated by DIGITALEUROPE, the DS4Skills consortium brought together 10 full partners and 4 associated partners, all with solid experience in the data ecosystem and community building. The consortium had a wide network of stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, including researchers, training providers, companies, and associations representing the industry and data ecosystems.
EDGE-Skills
The EDGE-Skills project (European Dataspace for Growth and Education-Skills), which is led by Prometheus-X, aims to provide a human-centric, distributed and sovereign data space infrastructure that is deployed and ready to use as plug and play through a set of innovative cloud services with first use cases in the education and tourism domains.
EDGE-Skills unites 36 organisations from eight European Union (EU) countries to address pressing challenges in education and workforce competitiveness. By federating initiatives across Europe, it aims to impact over 5 million learners by the end of 2026 by pursuing the following three core objectives: 1. Developing and deploying high-value education and skills data ecosystems. 2. Innovating cloud-to-edge services for the education and skills data space. 3. Ensuring accessibility for all stakeholders.
The Digital Skills and Jobs Platform
The Digital Skills and Platform is the European Commission’s reference point for digital skills enabling all Europeans – citizens, businesses and public organisations – to make the most of the digital transformation of our society and economy. The Platform functions jointly with the 25 National Coalitions for digital skills and contributes to reaching the EU’s Digital Decade targets on Digital Skills.
Funded by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the Platform helps individuals find relevant training and learning opportunities and it improves knowledge-sharing between organisations and companies.
Gaia-x
Innovation through digital sovereignty is the goal of Gaia-X. It creates a framework in which data is made available, collated and shared in a trustworthy environment. Gaia-X is the main player in Europe for the establishment of Data Spaces infrastructure.
RESKILLING
The rapid advancement of Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) is transforming the European transport sector, creating both opportunities and challenges for the labor market. While CCAM enhances efficiency, safety, and sustainability, it also disrupts traditional job roles, requiring workforce adaptation and new skills. However, the full extent of job displacement, reskilling needs, and socioeconomic impacts remains uncertain.
To ensure an inclusive transition, policymakers, industry leaders, and educators need evidence-based strategies to address labor market mismatches and social inequalities. The European RESKILLING project aims to assess CCAM’s impact on employment and the broader economy, supporting EU objectives for sustainable transport, social cohesion, and economic resilience. Proactive intervention is essential to secure a future-proof workforce and maintain the EU’s leadership in mobility innovation.
The project started in January 2025 and is coordinated by Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). It is a co-funded EU project under the program: HORIZON-CL5-2023-D6-01-05.
UPSKILL
Decision-makers need effective tools to navigate the challenges of employment and skills in the evolving labor market. The UPSKILL project, “Skills and Labour Markets in the Digital and Green Transition,” advances cutting-edge research and delivers practical solutions to foster responsible and sustainable development in Luxembourg.
It lays the foundation for a future large-scale research initiative. This initiative aims to develop a comprehensive platform for skills data analysis, forecasting, and policy support, ensuring alignment with the demands of the digital and green transitions.
UPSKILL was led by the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and co-investigated by Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). The project was funded by the Luxembourg National Research Fund through the INITIATE programme.
FIT
How to support fair education to increase the representation of girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)? This is the issue tackled by the co-funded Erasmus + Fairness In Teaching (FIT) project.
At school, persistent gender stereotypes relating to girls and science keep preventing girls from choosing STEM studies, and consequently from pursuing STEM careers. Fairness (understood as impartial and just treatment or behaviour without favouritism or discrimination) in teaching has become a real competence to be developed in school education and needs to be accompanied by an advanced approach. The FIT project aims to make teaching fairer and develop this approach. It provides primary and secondary school teachers with tools they can use to help them understand how to make their teaching fairer in everyday practices.
FLEX4RES
The European research project Flex4Res, which stands for Data spaces for FLEXible production lines and supply chains FOR RESilient manufacturing, concentrates on making supply chains more resilient.
To achieve this, Flex4Res develops an open platform for secure and sovereign data exchange along the supply chain that supports the reconfiguration of production networks. It also develops two toolboxes: one for resilience assessment and one for reconfiguration planning. These toolboxes allow different players in the supply chain to effectively and rapidly adjust to various disruptions, both in their supply chains and production processes.
MARKET4.0
MARKET4.0 – A Multi-Sided Business Platform for Plug and Produce Industrial Product Service Systems.
MARKET4.0 develops an open multi-sided digital platform for enabling production equipment and service providers to connect and work together with manufacturing companies. Creates technical and financial trust to prove payment, delivery and anonymized feedback in manufacturing B2B collaboration. Dataspace technology and more specifically International dataspaces is used to facilitate the need for data sharing.
