13/07/2026
🤖 AI skills are becoming a fundamental competence – but is training keeping pace?
A recent OECD Policy Brief, "Bridging the AI Skills Gap: Is Training Keeping Up?", highlights a challenge that affects education systems, employers and labour markets across Europe.
Among the key findings:
✅ The demand for general AI literacy is growing much faster than the current supply of training opportunities.
✅ Most workers will not need to become AI developers – but they will need to understand how to work effectively with AI in their daily jobs.
✅ AI training must become more accessible, inclusive and practice-oriented, particularly for adults who are unemployed, low-skilled or at risk of being left behind by digital transformation.
✅ Governments, education providers and employers all have a shared responsibility to create effective pathways for AI upskilling.
These findings strongly reinforce the objectives of our Erasmus+ project ReSTART – Rebuilding Careers with AI Skills and Problem-Based Learning.
Together with partners from Germany, Italy, Estonia, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Poland, ReSTART is developing practical learning pathways that help unemployed adults build:
🔹 AI literacy
🔹 Human-AI collaboration skills
🔹 Problem-solving competencies
🔹 Digital confidence
🔹 Job readiness for remote and hybrid work environments
Rather than focusing on programming or advanced technical expertise, ReSTART aims to make AI understandable, practical and directly applicable to everyday working life.
Over the coming months, we will continue to share international research, policy developments and good practices while developing our own evidence and project results.
📖 Read the OECD Policy Brief:
OECD – Bridging the AI Skills Gap: Is Training Keeping Up?
https://lnkd.in/dcCJxCHH
📘 Follow the ReSTART Erasmus+ Project on Facebook and stay updated with our latest news, research insights and project results:
ReSTART Project page
https://lnkd.in/dMnsAAtd
💬 We welcome exchanges with researchers, adult education providers, employment services, policy makers and organisations working on AI, employability and lifelong learning across Europe.
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