Several studies underline the need for simpler operating tools for mobility actions targeting quality and contributing to a reduction of youth unemployment.

During the project online research, telephone interviews, analyses and comparison of the online matching services of European PES was conducted, with special focus on the occupational and skills thesauri in use. 

The DISCO thesaurus was implemented in four languages (HU, GE, EN, FR) into the Europass wizzard to support the online filling of the Europass form by offering for each relevant Europass headline a set of skills and competences.

The AMS commissioned the transcoding of the new German occupational classification to its occupational system (AMS-Sechssteller, which are subordinated to the AMS-BIS occupations) to enhance the regional mobility of job seekers between Germany and Austria.

3s is part of a consortium (lead by GHK) providing support to the ESCO – European Skills, Competences, qualifications and Occupation – development.

The AMS (Austrian PES) commissioned a study on the usage of taxonomies of occupations and of skills and competences in 5 PES (Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden) to compare their approaches with the Austrian classifications on occupations as well as on skills and competences.

The European Dictionary of Skills and Competences (DISCO) provides access to a thesaurus with more than 70,000 skill and competence terms in seven European languages (CZ, DE, EN, FR, HU, LT, SE).

The Austrian Labour Market Service (AMS) realises reitineratedly a questionnaire survey in Austrian enterprises with at least 20 employees. Every two years the respective more than 20.000 enterprises are contacted with a similar questionnaire.

The study on talent management in Lower Austrian enterprises was undertaken in co-operation with the Danube University in Krems. The aim of the project was to obtain an overview on the use of the term “talent management”, to investigate talent management approaches in Lower Austrian businesses, and to find out – based on different theoretical models – for which kinds of businesses talent management might be of interest.

In January 2012, the Austrian National Agency for Lifelong Learning set up an ECVET contact point. At the same time, a team of seven national ECVET experts has been appointed – Karin Luomi-Messerer is part of this team.