Skills4Justice Workshop

Name: Skills4Justice Workshop
Start: 2025-05-09T09:30:00+0200
End: 2025-05-09T14:00:00+0200
Location: Hulda Garborgs hus

Friday 9 May 2025 09:30-14:00,

Hulda Garborgs hus,

HG N-107.

Practitioners, experts, policy makers, and community leaders are welcome to sign up for the workshop "Collaborative Pathways to Address Job Skills Challenges in the Context of Labor Migration."

Published 09. Apr. 2025. Updated on 11. Apr. 2025

The workshop aims at enhancing dialogue locally and regionally concerning the challenges and potential new solutions related to job skills, skills demand, skills matching, and labour migration.

The event will bring together actors with relevant expertise across different sectors and is arranged in the context of the EU-funded Skills4Justice project.

Short Norwegian description of the upcoming workshop is found here.

Researchers will present the latest findings based on interviews and analyses of statistics carried out in the ongoing project. We invite everyone interested in labor migration to join the discussion.

Besides generating new knowledge, Skills4Justice aims to foster constructive participation, sharing of knowledge and experience among experts, policy makers, business leaders, social partners, education and training providers, and non-governmental organizations. This event is the first in a line of open workshops, seminars and roundtable discussions initiated by the project.

Please register here.

Prelimenary program

Collaborative Pathways to Address Job Skills Challenges in the Context of Labor Migration  
Date: 9 May 2025 
Location: Faculty of Arts and Education,
Hulda Garborgs hus, HG N-107, UiS 
 
09:30 – 10:00 | Morning coffee and mingling   
10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome & Introduction to Skills4Justice  
• Brief overview of the project, focusing on the skill shortages in Norway and migration dynamics.  
10:10 –10:15 | Welcome by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Education, Odd Magne Bakke  
10:15 – 11:00 | Findings from Norway 1 - What do the numbers tell us?  
11.00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break 
 11:15 – 12:00 | Findings from Norway 2 - Stakeholder perspectives 
• Presentation and discussion of the key findings from the interviews  
• Topics include barriers to integration, skill utilization, and experiences in navigating the labor market. Key themes: matching needs, recruitment challenges, and sectoral trends. 
 
12.00 – 12:30 | Lunch Break & Networking 
 
12:30 – 13:30 | Panel Discussion: Skills Shortages and Workforce Development in Rogaland 
• Invited participants: Representatives from business, industry, and public sector  
• Discussion of challenges faced in recruitment, skill matching, and labour market integration of migrants. 
• Stakeholder reflections on the findings   
13:30 – 13:45 | Observations and reflections from the day: Migrant perspective  
13:45 – 14:00 | Closing Remarks 
• Wrap-up of the workshop and future possibilities. 

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Skills4Justice aims to facilitate dialogue and research-based evidence and recommendations to policy makers, education and training providers, and social partners, enhancing their capacity to address skill mismatches and skilled labor migration challenges.

The project partners will analyze skills shortages in 5 EU countries and 6 non-EU countries in the context of global workforce migration. It will provide research-based evidence on the nature and development of skill shortages, as well as on the potential of different skills partnerships to tackle these shortages in the countries of origin and destination of migrants.

Partner countries are Lithuania, France, Italy, Germany and Poland and 6 non-EU countries: North Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, Norway, and Ethiopia.