The role of civil society in skills development

Civil society plays an important role in skills development. In
this episode of The Sound of Economics, Rebecca Christie and
Duygu Güner are joined by two stakeholders from the civil society
sector: Deputy Secretary General and Head of Policy of the
European Association for the Education of Adults, Raffaela Kihrer
and Sertaç Yerlikaya, the country manager of 42 İstanbul, a
coding school in Türkiye, Director of Türkiye Open Source
Platform and Country Coordinator for the World Economic Forum's
"Closing the Skills Gap Accelerator" programme.

They discuss the need for cooperation and partnership among
different stakeholders (industry, academia, government and civil
society) in skills development, the role of civil society in
building this partnership, and the importance of advocating for
more involvement of civil society to help close the skills
gap.

This is part of a special Skills series of The Sound of
Economics, where we discuss how we can utilise upskilling and
reskilling initiatives to protect vulnerable groups of the
workforce, how to build a resilient workforce and how to create a
better functioning EU labour market.

Relevant publications:


Life skills and participation in adult learning, EAEA policy
paper

Partnerships and cooperations in adult education, EAEA
background paper



This podcast was produced within the project “Future of Work and
Inclusive Growth in Europe“, with the financial support of the
Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.