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Lot2-Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills, aim to create new strategic approaches and cooperation for concrete skills development solutions, both in the short and the medium term in given economic sectors, or in areas implementing a major action of the European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience the Pact for Skills. The main objective of the Pact, is to mobilise and incentivise all relevant stakeholders to take concrete actions for the upskilling and reskilling of the workforce.

Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills seek to tackle skills gaps on the labour market that hamper growth, innovation and competitiveness in specific sectors or areas, aiming both at short term interventions and long term strategies. Furtheremore, Alliances have to choose for their proposal a single industrial ecosystem which their project will address. Only one proposal per industrial ecosystem can be selected for funding. A proposal may concern an ecosystem that is not covered by an on-going Blueprint project or an ecosystem that has already an on-going Blueprint.

The selected industrial ecosystems, which are relevant to the present call are:

1. Tourism.

2. Mobility-Transport-Automotive

3. Aerospace & Defence.

4. Construction.

5. Agri-food.

6. Low-carbon energy Intensive Industries.

7. Textile.

8. Creative & Cultural Industries.

9. Digital.

10. Renewable Energy.

11. Electronics.

12. Retail.

13. Proximity & Social Economy.

14. Health.

Proposals under this Call, should include the design of continuing vocational training programmes in order to address urgent skills needs, of people in working age. Proposals should also include developments of emerging occupational profiles and related qualifications. Furthermore, they should also include the design of related core curricula and education and training programmes leading to those qualifications.