Charlotte Vanstallen

The Team Europe Initiative Opportunity-driven Skills and VET in Africa has as key objective to revolutionize skills development by stronger engagement with the private sectors and links with Global Gateway investments. The iniative consists of three building blocks: 1. Technical Assistance (TA) facility providing support based on requests from EU Delegations, EU Member States or private sector organisations to identify employment opportunities and required skills needs around flagship initiatives and translate findings in targeted recommendations for VET system support responsive to identified employment opportunities; 2. Regional exchange on Public-Private-Partnerships to promote opportunity-driven VET and skills development in SSA, and to create a space to allow for practical exchange between public and private stakeholders on active partnerships. This includes a linkage to relevant Erasmus+ financed actions on capacity building for PPP in VET to strengthen EU-Africa engagement on skills; 3. Competitive Funding mechanism to finance regional and multi-country VET initiatives in support of (regional) value chains that complement country MIPs, as well as actions that more generally support this paradigm shift of reverse engineering VET in function of employment opportunities market dynamics create.