Providers
Make your courses discoverable, connect them to skills and combine them with complementary learning from the wider ecosystem.
For providersEuropean collaboration. International reach.
Connecting Europe's
skills ecosystem.
Skills Hub connects skills intelligence, learning providers, organisations and learners across Europe, while enabling collaboration with international partners. It brings skills, courses, learning paths and recognition into one connected ecosystem — without replacing provider expertise or platforms.
Shared European ecosystemInternational collaborationProvider independence
One connected European learning ecosystem
Providers
Learners
Organisations
& industry
& industry
Shared discovery. Connected learning.Skills needs
Job roles
Skills & knowledge
Learning opportunities
Pathways
Recognition
Courses stay with their providers.
Find your starting point
What brings you here?
Learners
Understand what to learn next, discover courses from different providers and follow connected learning paths.
For learnersOrganisations & industry
Connect workforce needs and job roles with the right skills, providers, learning paths and recognition.
For organisationsLearning organisations
Create a learning organisation to support a group of learners, assign learning and follow their progress over time.
For learning organisationsOne connected place
Skills intelligence, training courses,
learning paths and micro-credentials.
Skills Hub connects the building blocks that are often spread across separate projects, platforms and providers. Skills intelligence defines the reference; courses are mapped to it; learning paths combine relevant offers; and mapped, assessed learning can support micro-credentials as recognition of what was achieved.
01Skills intelligence
Skills needs, trends, job roles, skills and competence levels.
02Training courses
A shared pool of learning opportunities from different providers and countries, mapped to relevant skills and reference definitions.
03Learning paths
Combine and orchestrate relevant learning offers from multiple sources into guided journeys.
04Micro-credentials
Where a course is mapped to reference definitions and the required learning and assessment are completed, a micro-credential can recognise the achieved learning.
How Skills Hub works
Useful on their own.
Stronger together.
A course, a skill or a job role is one building block. Connecting them helps people understand what they need, where to learn it and how to progress.
Explore the building blocksSee learning paths explainedLearning paths make the shared course pool easier to use by combining relevant learning from different providers, countries and sectors into one guided journey.
Combine the best learning.
Keep every contributor visible.
A provider, company, university, sector partnership or learning organisation can orchestrate a path around a real skills need. The learning can come from several contributors, while ownership, delivery and recognition remain clear.
They do not replace providers. In the shared ecosystem, each actor can contribute in a different way: create learning content, orchestrate a pathway across multiple offers, or guarantee the outcome, quality or recognition behind it.
Shared pool of coursesMulti-provider pathwaysClear ownershipEuropean and international reuse
Cross-sector reuse. Sector-specific value.
Skills that cross sectors.
Learning that travels with them.
A skill can matter in more than one industry. Its application, required level and evidence may still be different.
Skills that connectExplore a connection
Shared skill different context relevant learning.
Illustrative discovery example
From energy learning to automotive practice.
01Shared skillBattery-system foundations
02Different contextAn automotive learning goal
03
Relevant learning from different providers
Energy training providerBattery-system foundations
Automotive providerAutomotive application
An energy provider's foundation course could contribute to an automotive pathway, alongside specialist learning for that application.
Illustrative discovery example
From ICT foundations to industrial application.
01Shared skillCybersecurity foundations
02Different contextA manufacturing learning goal
03
Relevant learning from different providers
ICT training providerCybersecurity foundations
Manufacturing providerIndustrial application
An ICT provider's introductory course could support a manufacturing learner, with further learning shaped by the working environment.
Illustrative discovery example
From a shared principle to sector-specific practice.
01Shared skillSustainability foundations
02Different contextA construction learning goal
03
Relevant learning from different providers
Energy training providerSustainability foundations
Construction providerConstruction application
A foundation course developed in energy could help a construction learner, complemented by learning that addresses the sector's own needs.
Illustrative connections, not live course matches or automatic equivalence.
Explore the cross-sector approachBuilt by its participants
Different contributions.
A shared European purpose.
Learning goals
Learners
Discover skills and learning across providers and sectors.
Learning opportunitiesTraining providers
Make courses discoverable through the skills they develop and connect them to wider learning pathways.
Workforce needsOrganisations & sectors
Connect workforce needs, job roles and skills with relevant learning.
Knowledge & resultsProjects, regions & networks
Make knowledge and learning developed through European initiatives discoverable beyond the original project or community.
Bring your expertise into the Skills Hub ecosystem
Your courses. Your platform.
Your identity.
Skills Hub does not host courses. It connects people to learning opportunities while providers keep their own platforms, delivery models and identity.
European collaboration in practice
Supporting the Pact for Skills.
Skills Hub supports projects and partnerships putting the Pact for Skills into practice, with reference skills definitions, training opportunities and learning pathways as connected building blocks. Courses mapped to those reference definitions can support micro-credentials when the relevant learning and assessment requirements are met.
It helps useful project results travel further — into providers, learners, organisations and wider European collaboration.
How it works
From a skills need
to the next learning step.
Six building blocks connect what people need to learn with where they can learn it. Start with a role, a skill or a course.
01 / Skills needs
Understand what needs to change.
Industry knowledge and skills intelligence help identify emerging learning needs. Start with a changing technology, a workforce challenge or a capability to develop.
A starting point for learning, not a forecast for every job.
What this building block adds
Digital and green change
Industry priorities
Learning needs
02 / Job roles
Give learning a work context.
A job-role profile describes the skills and knowledge needed for an area of work. Roles can be shared across sectors or specific to an industry, technology or activity.
Shared descriptions complement specialist expertise.
What this building block adds
Role purpose
Required capabilities
Sector context
03 / Skills & knowledge
Make the required capability clear.
Skills and knowledge describe what someone should know or be able to do. Proficiency levels distinguish an introduction from practical application and specialist expertise.
The framework uses Awareness, Practitioner and Expert levels.
What this building block adds
Learning outcomes
Required level
Where it is applied
04 / Learning opportunities
Find where learning can happen.
Providers describe their learning opportunities and connect them to relevant skills. Learners discover the offer through Skills Hub and follow the provider's access and enrolment information.
Courses can be online, in person, blended or work-based.
What this building block adds
Provider identity
Relevant skills and outcomes
Course access and delivery
05 / Learning pathways
Bring separate activities into a journey.
A pathway connects learning opportunities around a skill, job role or development goal. It can combine courses from different providers, where the content and sequence fit.
The pathway connects the learning; providers deliver it.
What this building block adds
A clear learning goal
Relevant learning activities
A useful progression
06 / Recognition
Show what learning has led to.
When a course is mapped to the relevant reference definitions, completion and assessment can provide evidence of the learning achieved. Where the recognition arrangements support it, this can lead to a certificate, digital badge or micro-credential.
The micro-credential recognises mapped and assessed learning; it is not itself a learning activity inside a pathway.
What this building block adds
Reference definitions and mapped learning outcomes
Completion, assessment and supporting evidence
Issuer and recognised achievement
The model depends on the information contributed and the arrangements for each learning opportunity.1
An illustrative learning pathway
Different providers.
One connected learning goal.
A pathway can connect complementary courses without moving them into one learning platform.
Provider A
Step 01Foundation course
Build the common knowledge.
Delivered by the providerProvider B
Step 02Applied workshop
Practise in a relevant setting.
Delivered by the providerProvider C
Step 03Specialist learning
Develop sector-specific expertise.
Delivered by the providerA shared path. Clear responsibilities.
A provider or expert can bring these courses together and act as the learning path guarantor, reviewing the goal, selection and sequence. Each provider remains responsible for its own learning activity.
Illustrative structure, not a live course bundle. Access, assessment and any recognition follow each provider's arrangements.
A useful distinction
The same skill. Different depths.
Awareness
Understand the basics and recognise the context.
Practitioner
Apply the skill in a practical situation.
Expert
Handle complex applications and specialist decisions.
These are competence levels, not automatic qualification equivalents.4
Learning paths
Combine learning across a shared ecosystem.
Skills Hub is designed so that learning offers from different providers can be shared, discovered and combined as needed. Build your own route — or choose a pre-created pathway backed by a visible guarantee.
Provider AFoundation courseSkills • Course
Provider BApplied workshopPractice • Course
Provider CMicro-credentialRecognition
Skills Hub
Shared learning pool
Discover • compare • combine
FlexibleBuild your own combination
Pre-createdGuaranteed learning pathGuarantee shown clearly
Shared ecosystem model
One shared pool.
Many possible paths.
Learning paths make the shared ecosystem practical. Offers stay owned and visible by their providers, but they can be combined into clear journeys for learners, learning organisations and industry.
Pool the offers
Courses, modules, workshops, workplace learning and other learning opportunities from different providers become discoverable together.
Orchestrate as needed
Select and combine offers around a skill, job role, target group, sector priority or transformation need.
Use the pathway
Follow a custom route or select a pre-created pathway with a trusted guarantee and clear purpose.
Recognition layer
Micro-credentials come from mapped learning — not from the pathway pool.
Learning paths combine learning opportunities. Separately, a course can be mapped to reference definitions. When the required learning and assessment are completed, that mapped achievement can support the issuing of a micro-credential.
01Reference definitionsSkills, knowledge and expected level
→
02Mapped courseCourse linked to the relevant definitions
→
03Learning + assessmentEvidence that the mapped learning was achieved
→
04Micro-credentialRecognition of the achieved learning
The pathway playground
The ecosystem is intentionally combinable.
The same course can support several pathways, sectors or target groups. This is the added value: providers contribute once, while learners and organisations can reuse and combine offers in ways that match their needs.
- Provider ownership and identity remain visible.
- Local, national, European and international offers can sit in the same pathway.
- Learning organisations can assemble pathways for cohorts or employees and track progress.
A Course
B Workshop
C Module
D Practical activity
Path 01Role-based pathwayA + B + D
Path 02Organisation pathwayA + C + D
Path 03Sector pathwayB + C + D
Two ways to use it
Flexible combinations.
Trusted guidance.
The ecosystem supports both. Some users want freedom to combine learning themselves. Others want a pathway already assembled and guaranteed by a trusted actor.
Your own route
Build your own combination
Learners, organisations, learning organisations and providers can select offers from the shared pool and create a pathway that fits their context.
- Mix learning from different providers
- Start from a role, skill or transformation goal
- Adapt sequence, depth and scope
Trusted route
Choose a pre-created pathway
Providers, alliances, academies, projects or other trusted actors can publish a complete pathway and make its guarantee visible.
- Prepared around a clear target outcome
- Guarantee, ownership and purpose shown transparently
- Useful where guidance, confidence or recognition matters
How the ecosystem collaborates
Create. Orchestrate. Guarantee.
Different actors do not need to play the same role. The platform provides a common structure so that each contribution can remain clear.
Create
Add learning offers, modules, practical activities, skills or other pathway components.
Orchestrate
Combine the most relevant offers into a coherent pathway for a target group or purpose.
Guarantee
Show which trusted actor stands behind the pathway, its relevance, intended outcome or recognition logic.
LearnersClearer next steps and less fragmentation.
ProvidersMore visibility and participation in multi-provider pathways.
OrganisationsStructured development for employees, cohorts and communities.
EcosystemsEuropean and international collaboration without forcing learning into one platform.
The key idea
Shared offers stay independent. Pathways make them work together.
Learning paths are a connected layer on top of the shared pool. That is why Skills Hub can support open combinations and trusted guaranteed pathways at the same time.
For you
Find your place.
Connect your contribution.
Providers, learners, organisations and learning organisations can each use the same connected ecosystem in a different way. Projects and networks can contribute results that remain useful across borders and sectors.
For training providers
Reach learners.
Keep your independence.
Make your learning offer discoverable through the skills it develops and contribute it to a shared pool that can be combined into learning paths across providers, sectors and countries. Your courses stay on your platform.
You do not have to provide every part.
Connect your offerCombine your own courses with relevant learning from other providers. You can help shape and share a stronger learning path without needing to create every component yourself.
Your starting point
01
Show who you are.
Create a provider profile that makes your expertise visible.
02
Connect your courses.
Describe your offer and link it to relevant skills and roles.
03
Welcome relevant learners.
Share your courses and pathways with individuals or teams, and point them to your access and enrolment information.
You remain responsible for delivery, enrolment and assessment. Skills Hub supports discovery and connections.
For learners
Know what to learn next.
Start with a skill you want to develop or a job role you are interested in. Discover relevant learning from different providers and sectors.
Explore learning opportunitiesYour starting point
01
Explore the skills.
Understand the capabilities and level you need.
02
Discover your options.
Find relevant learning opportunities, including those developed in another sector.
03
Follow your next step.
Use a pathway as a guide and learn with the provider.
Check requirements, access and any recognition with the provider before enrolling.
For organisations, industry and sectors
Turn skills needs into learning opportunities.
Connect workforce needs, job roles and sector-specific skills with relevant learning. Organisations can also use learning-organisation features to organise people, assign learning and follow progress.
One learning goal for the whole team.
Explore skills and learningUse shared skills and job-role references to build learning for onboarding, upskilling or reskilling, then organise employees or other groups around the selected pathways and follow their progress.
Your starting point
01
Clarify the need.
Identify the job roles, skills and levels important to your organisation or sector.
02
Find relevant expertise.
Discover providers and learning aligned with those requirements.
03
Connect the learning.
Bring suitable activities together around a workforce-development goal. Agree delivery and assessment with the providers.
Shared references support collaboration. They do not replace your organisation's assessment of competence.
For learning organisations
Organise learning.
Support people over time.
Any organisation can create a learning organisation to support employees, members, students, customers or another group of learners. Bring people together, assign relevant learning and follow their progress.
Not only for employers.
Create a learning organisation
A company can track workforce development, but the same model can support an academy, association, university unit, project, community or other organisation helping individuals to learn.
Your starting point
01
Create your learning organisation.
Set up the group or community you want to support.
02
Bring in learners.
Organise employees or other individuals and connect them with suitable learning.
03
Assign and follow learning.
Use courses and learning paths to support development and follow progress over time.
Learning organisations help coordinate and track learning; the providers remain responsible for their own learning delivery and assessment.
For projects, regions and networks
Let useful results travel further.
Connect knowledge and learning developed through European initiatives to people beyond the original project or community.
Explore Skills HubYour starting point
01
Identify useful results.
Bring reference skills definitions, job roles, learning opportunities or pathways.
02
Keep their source clear.
Preserve the contributing organisation, sector context and conditions for reuse.
03
Connect them to wider needs.
Make the results discoverable alongside relevant skills and learning opportunities.
The aim is reuse and continuity, not unrestricted copying or an automatic integration with every project system.
Connect your organisation
You do not need
to bring everything.
A learning opportunity, a clear skills need or a job-role profile can be a useful starting point. The value comes from connecting complementary contributions.
Open Skills Hub to get startedAcross sectors
Shared skills.
Specialist applications.
A skill can matter in more than one industry. Skills Hub connects shared foundations with the context, required level and learning that make them relevant.
Share what is useful.
Connect skills, job-role references and learning opportunities that can support more than one industry.
Shared skillsRelated job rolesReusable learning
Keep what makes it relevant.
Preserve specialist technologies, terminology, standards, proficiency requirements and learning solutions.
Specialist contextRequired levelRelevant evidence
Discover the connection
Different sectors.
Connected learning possibilities.
Explore how learning developed in one sector could support a need in another, alongside the specialist learning that still matters.
Skills that connectExplore a connection
Shared skill different context relevant learning.
Illustrative discovery example
From energy learning to automotive practice.
01Shared skillBattery-system foundations
02Different contextAn automotive learning goal
03
Relevant learning from different providers
Energy training providerBattery-system foundations
Automotive providerAutomotive application
An energy provider's foundation course could contribute to an automotive pathway, alongside specialist learning for that application.
Illustrative discovery example
From ICT foundations to industrial application.
01Shared skillCybersecurity foundations
02Different contextA manufacturing learning goal
03
Relevant learning from different providers
ICT training providerCybersecurity foundations
Manufacturing providerIndustrial application
An ICT provider's introductory course could support a manufacturing learner, with further learning shaped by the working environment.
Illustrative discovery example
From a shared principle to sector-specific practice.
01Shared skillSustainability foundations
02Different contextA construction learning goal
03
Relevant learning from different providers
Energy training providerSustainability foundations
Construction providerConstruction application
A foundation course developed in energy could help a construction learner, complemented by learning that addresses the sector's own needs.
Illustrative examples, not verified matches between live courses or qualifications.
Job roles can connect, too
Related does not
mean identical.
A shared role such as data analyst can inform a sector-specific profile. Specialist knowledge and proficiency requirements still need to be defined.
A connection is a starting point
Check the fit.
Keep the context.
Related skills do not automatically make courses interchangeable. Learning outcomes, required level, application and assessment all need to fit the learner's goal.
See how the building blocks connectAbout & FAQ
A shared purpose.
A practical platform.
Skills Hub helps build a connected European learning ecosystem and provides a practical foundation for cooperation with international partners, providers and initiatives.
Behind Skills Hub
Developed through
European cooperation.
Skills Hub is developed by the SkillsTech Lab team at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. Its foundations draw on European projects and long-term cooperation with education providers, industry and skills partnerships.
Experience from initiatives such as DRIVES, ALBATTS, TRIREME, FLAMENCO, ChemSkills and ECSA supports a cross-sector approach that can connect European results with wider international expertise and learning opportunities.
European collaboration
Supporting the
Pact for Skills.
Skills Hub supports projects and partnerships putting the Pact for Skills into practice. It offers a technological backbone for shared skills definitions, learning opportunities and learning pathways. Courses mapped to the reference definitions can then support micro-credentials where the required learning, assessment and evidence are in place.
This makes it easier to connect project outcomes with providers, learners and organisations well beyond the original consortium.
Do providers need to move their courses?
No. Skills Hub does not host courses. It connects learning opportunities to skills, job roles and pathways, then directs learners to the provider. Providers keep their own content, delivery environment and identity.
Is Skills Hub limited to one industry?
No. The direction is cross-sector: connect shared skills and job roles while supporting sector-specific frameworks and learning solutions. Specialist context should remain visible, not be replaced by a generic description.
Can one pathway include different providers?
Yes, the pathway model can bring together complementary learning opportunities from different providers. Course access, prerequisites, assessment and any recognition still depend on the respective arrangements.
Does every course award a micro-credential?
No. A course can support a micro-credential when it is mapped to the relevant reference definitions and the required learning, assessment and evidence are in place. The micro-credential recognises the achieved learning; a course listing or learning pathway is not, by itself, a credential or qualification.
Who is responsible for the information and learning?
The contributing source should remain clear for each skills framework, job role and course. The provider remains responsible for delivery and assessment; any achievement should identify the responsible issuer. Skills Hub connects these contributions. Where a learning path has a guarantor, their responsibility for reviewing its design should also be clear.
How do I get started?
Open the Skills Hub platform to explore the available skills, job roles, providers and learning opportunities. Providers can use the platform's registration and profile process to start connecting their offer.
Can learning from another sector be relevant to me?
It can be. A course may develop shared skills that support your goal, even when it originated in another sector. Check the learning outcomes, level, context and assessment rather than assuming that similar labels mean equivalent learning.
How can projects and networks contribute?
Reference skills definitions, job roles, learning opportunities and pathways can help make project results discoverable beyond the original initiative. Their source, specialist context and conditions for reuse should remain clear.
No matching questions. Try a different word.
Neutral connections. Clear responsibilities.
The approach is to support each provider and each sector without replacing their expertise. Participation does not imply automatic accreditation, unrestricted reuse or an integration with every learning system.
Sources & scope
The foundation
behind the explanation.
Background references for this website. Check the live platform and provider information for current services and conditions.
What this website describes
Published platform foundations are combined with the ambition to build a joint, cross-sector European learning ecosystem. Diagrams, roles and pathway examples illustrate the approach; they are not live catalogue results or verified equivalence decisions. Examples of provider collaboration, team learning and pathway guarantorship describe possible uses of these building blocks, not confirmation that every supporting function is available today.
The European ambition is not a claim of official EU designation, exclusive coverage or automatic qualification recognition. Examples explain the model; they are not live catalogue results. Check the platform and provider information for current services and conditions.
Skills Hub platform
Learning discovery and connections between providers, skills, roles and pathways.
Open sourceSeparate Learning Platform
A course-delivery environment, distinct from the Skills Hub discovery platform.
Open sourceOrigins and contributing initiatives
Development background and supporting European projects.
Open sourcePact for Skills
Background on the European initiative referenced in the collaboration section. The Skills Hub website describes a supporting role for projects and partnerships, not an exclusive or officially designated EU platform.
Open source