GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

This initiative will prepare a strategy to identify and quantify nuclear skills shortages across the EU, drawing on approaches from different industries the European Human Resources Observatory for the Nuclear Sector (EHRO-N) and Member States, in particular building upon the work already initiated in job taxonomy and national workforce assessments under EHRO-N.

The initiative’s strategy and multi-annual action plan should consider increasing:

• activities across sectors and Member States
• collaboration and transnational mobility
• vocational training programmes and should identify the reskilling and upskilling needs of job holders in the sector (identification, validation and certification of skills), including access to nuclear research facilities.

Additionally, the strategy should identify ways to promote nuclear and radiation protection careers and job paths among young people and with teachers, instructors and professors. At the same time it should improve diversity, inclusion and gender representation in the nuclear sector (fission and fusion), including by sustaining in its current form the existing European Masters in the nuclear and engineering field (i.e. organised and delivered by academics in at least three Member States).

The consortium will involve a wide variety of stakeholders, from industry, research and training organisations, as well as academia, regulatory bodies and professionals from the fields of education and human resources management.

The initiative should leverage existing EU instruments where appropriate, including the Pact for Skills. The feasibility of the proposed strategy should be demonstrated by a pilot action implemented by the consortium during the lifetime of the project.