The project “Roadmap and factsheet for the recognition of qualifications for highly demanded professions” is aimed at creating two practical documents per highly demanded profession aimed at boosting cross-border mobility and employability by improving recognition. The project was submitted by the Province of Limburg (NL) as lead applicant and is carried out by the ITEM Expertise Centre.

Activities for the B-solutions project were initiated in 2018. So far, a number of activities have taken place in the context of the project. For example, the first phase of the project was successfully concluded with the publication of a report in which a selection of highly demanded professions was made. Early findings and methods employed in the project were presented during a workshop organised jointly by ITEM and the Benelux on the 15 November 2018 in Brussels. On 31 January 2019, the project was presented at a meeting organised by the European Commission bringing together the ten B-solutions projects selected in the first B-solutions call.

Present activities, meaning the second step of the project, focus on the development of roadmaps and factsheets and include a consultation of various stakeholders (e.g. competent authorities and first line support services). In the final step of this B-solutions project the experiences of the project will be documented in a manual containing the Roadmap and Factsheet method.

The project “Roadmap and factsheet for the recognition of qualifications for highly demanded professions” is financed by the European Union.