Mapping Cross-Border skills involving Employers: Building & Construction sector between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia

The new compendium b-solutions: Solving Border Obstacles: A Compendium 2023-2024 represents the fourth compendium of cross-border obstacles analysed under b-solutions. Since 2018, the b-solutions initiative has permitted to collect 165 cases featured in the publications available at the following link: b-solutions library.

These documents aim to inform stakeholders, policy makers, and other relevant actors at various levels about the daily challenges faced by citizens and local authorities in border regions. The publications also propose potential strategies and solutions to improve cross-border cooperation.

THE CONTEXT
The construction industry is important for the local economy in the cross-border region between Italy and Slovenia, employing thousands of people. However, the industry is facing a general labour shortage and a lack of sufficiently skilled workers. Additional analysis of information from the building and construction sector on both sides of the border is necessary to enable the identification of the required skills, but such data at the local level are scarce. In the interest of cooperation, an analysis of needs and gaps must also be carried out to improve training opportunities and skills-based job matching.

Case n°16 Mapping cross-border skills involving employers: Building and Construction between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia

THE CONTEXT
The construction industry is important for the local economy in the cross-border region between Italy and Slovenia, employing thousands of people. However, the industry is facing a general labour shortage and a lack of sufficiently skilled workers. Additional analysis of information from the building and construction sector on both sides of the border is necessary to enable the identification of the required skills, but such data at the local level are scarce. In the interest of cooperation, an analysis of needs and gaps must also be carried out to improve training opportunities and skills-based job matching.

Special thanks

• Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, Directorate D, European Territorial Cooperation, Macro-Regions, Interreg and programmes implementation, Unit D.2. – Interreg, Cross-Border Cooperation, Internal Borders,
• AEBR Secretary General, Mr Martin Guillermo RAMIREZ