Answer for question E-001778/25

EN E-001778/2025 Answer given by Executive Vice-President Mînzatu on behalf of the European Commission (25.6.2025) The ‘Choose Europe’ initiative announced by the President of the Commission on 5 May 20251 will dedicate EUR 500 million in 2025–2027 to ensure Europe continues to attract the brightest researchers around the world, with a new long-term ‘super grant’ from the European Research Council, and a pilot under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions2 to attract scientists early in their career in Europe. The Commission’s Action Plan on labour and skills shortages3 sets out 87 actions that the EU, Member States and social partners should take to tackle these shortages, including supporting skills development and attracting talent from outside the EU. The Commission is setting up new skills partnerships under the Pact for Skills4, co-financing more Centres of Vocational Excellence5 and boosting the work on Skills Academies in net zero technologies and cyber skills6. Once established, the EU Talent Pool7 will facilitate the recruitment of jobseekers from non-EU countries in EU-wide shortage occupations. The Union of Skills8, adopted on 5 March 2025, aims for a ‘radical’ step-up in both ambition and action to deliver education and skilling in the EU. It is accompanied by a new Action Plan on Basic Skills9 and a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Education Strategic Plan10. It announces a European Skills High Level Board, a European Skills Intelligence...