EurOccupations Newsletter

EurOccupations is an EU-project funded from the 6th Framework Research Program, which aims to build a European occupations database. Presently, it contains occupational information for 8 European countries. More information about this project can be found on www.EurOccupations.org. From now on, this Newsletter will report on the progress made in creating the EurOccupations database.

To enrich the database with more details, 150 key occupations have been selected for elaboration. This list will be published in March 2007 at www.EurOccupations.org. In 7 participating countries, experts (representatives of employer organisations, unions, vocational training institutes, knowledge centers, etc.) are asked to complete questionnaires on the selected key occupations via a web survey.

This survey examines in greater detail relevant occupational dimensions such as: required educational level, field of education, on-the-job training, importance and frequency of specific tasks, required competencies, etc.

Registration of experts has already started, if you would like to join click here to register. The results of this survey are expected to be available by May 2008 on www.EurOccupations.org.

The current International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) and National Statistical Offices Classifications (NOC's) are described in a State-of-the-Art report. The report deals with the relation between ISCO and NOC's. Some of the central issues are:

• how do various NOC's handle classifications?
• are conversion tables available?

The State-of-the-Art report the deliverables of EurOccupations and is expected to be published in July 2007 on www.EurOccupations.org

In January 2007, the second project team meeting was held in Barcelona. Main topics were the construction of the database and the design of the expert research. Click here for more information on this meeting (i.e. agenda and presentations).