Within the European project DRIVES, focused on identifying future skills and new job profiles in the automotive sector, the project partnership is contributing to support the European Commission's new initiative to establish a skills agenda, specifically the idea of a Skills Pact in the automotive sector.

In particular, to help the entire automotive ecosystem cope with future structural changes, SFC and the other public and private components of the partnership managing the DRIVES project have proposed a strategy to recover the European automotive system. This strategy aims to maximize the sector's competitiveness, maintain employment, and create new opportunities.

The automotive industry is currently undergoing an unprecedented transformation, with both short-term impacts from the COVID-19 crisis and long-term changes toward green and sustainable mobility and carbon neutrality by 2050. This transition is already having significant effects on more than 13 million people employed in the current automotive value chain. From this perspective, it is essential that the sector acts in a socially responsible manner, investing in the requalification and skill upgrading of its workforce.