The transition towards CCAM is expected to reshape job profiles, skills requirements, working conditions, and training needs across the sector. Understanding these changes is essential to ensure that workers, employers, training providers, and policymakers are prepared for a fair and inclusive transition.

We invite Forum members to contribute their perspectives on:

🔹 emerging skills needs and training requirements
🔹 opportunities for new and evolving job profiles
🔹 potential risks of labour market disruption
🔹 barriers to participation in reskilling and upskilling activities
🔹 policy and organisational measures that can support workforce adaptation

Your input will directly contribute to RESKILLING's analysis of future skills needs and the development of recommendations for a socially sustainable deployment of CCAM across Europe.

COMPLETE THE SURVEY HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRiMEq1Td95dAqFkELFeHXZoquJekL3Rf6YhcZzdFmha2DfA/viewform

While CCAM can create new opportunities, it may also present challenges for some workers, particularly those who face barriers to training, digitalisation, or labour market participation.

We are particularly interested in perspectives relating to:

🔹 women working in transport
🔹 older workers
🔹 young people entering the labour market
🔹 workers with low digital skills
🔹 migrant workers
🔹 persons with disabilities
🔹 platform, temporary, or self-employed workers
🔹 workers in rural, remote, or underserved areas
🔹 caregivers and people facing multiple barriers

We encourage workers, worker representatives, trade unions, civil society organisations, employers, training providers, researchers, and public authorities to share their views.

Your feedback will help identify risks, opportunities, reskilling needs, and policy measures that can support an inclusive and equitable transition to automated mobility.

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EUCAD symposia are the bi-annual EUCAD events that alternate with the European Conferences on Connected and Automated Driving conferences. The 2026 edition is the continuation of EUCAD 2018, EUCAD 2020 and EUCAD 2024 symposia.

The EUCAD 2026 Symposium is organised by the CCAMbassador project and supported by the European Commission Directorate General for Research & Innovation (RTD) as well as the CCAM Partnership.

The event aims to delve deeper into specific key topics and challenges for CCAM Research & Innovation and deployment, in Europe and beyond, namely this year: regulations, AI, digital infrastructure and CCAM in cities. It is targeted at public and private stakeholders interested in exchanging knowledge and views on the latest progress and future actions required to accelerate transition from innovation to implementation.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn more about European Research & Innovation activities on CCAM, engage with experts and stakeholders from the EU, international, and Swiss CCAM ecosystem, and experience an automated public transport service in operation in Geneva, as well as other connected vehicle demonstrators.

The Symposium is targeted, though not limited to, European and international stakeholders from the industry and research sectors, policy makers, regulators, representatives from the European institutions, national and local public authorities, road authorities / operators, transport operators and users.

Participation in the event is free of charge, but registration is compulsory.

More information on the role of our project in the Conference and the posibilities for the stakeholders to attend will be soon provided.

For further enquiries, please contact eucad@connectedautomateddriving.eu

We want to hear from people and organisations representing workforce groups that may experience the transition to automation and digitalisation differently — including women, older workers, young professionals, workers with limited digital skills, migrant workers, workers with disabilities, platform or temporary workers, and jobseekers.

Your input will help us better understand future skills needs, barriers to participation, and the support measures needed to make the CCAM transition fair and inclusive.
𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨:
📅 26 May 2026
 🕒 13:00-17:00 CEST
🔗 Register here

📩 For any questions or suggestions of relevant contacts, please feel free to contact Matina Loukea mloukea@certh.gr  

We want to hear from people and organisations representing workforce groups that may experience the transition to automation and digitalisation differently — including women, older workers, young professionals, workers with limited digital skills, migrant workers, workers with disabilities, platform or temporary workers, and jobseekers.

Your input will help us better understand future skills needs, barriers to participation, and the support measures needed to make the CCAM transition fair and inclusive.

𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨:
📅 26 May 2026
 🕒 13:00-17:00 CEST
🔗 Register here

📩 For any questions or suggestions of relevant contacts, please feel free to contact: mloukea@certh.gr  

Please feel free to share this invitation with your network.

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The work is running along two parallel tracks:

• Development of a skills matrix

• Forecasting of employment effects

The matrix and the forecast will feed into each other to give a complete outlook on the workforce developments related to the introduction of CCAM.

Based on desk research, stakeholder interviews, and a co-creation workshop, the skills matrix was developed and populated. It helps connect various job types to relevant skills for the workforce transition.

Interviews are still ongoing, and if you have relevant insights on CCAM-related skills and workforce transitions, we would be delighted to talk with you.

➡️ Please contact Karoline.Fuehrer@ecorys.com to find out more and contribute!

Stakeholders involved in the following sectors are especially researched for:

• Insurance & Risk Assessment​

• Socioeconomic & Impact Analyst​

• Health, Safety & Ergonomics

• ​Emergency & Incident Management

• ​Decommissioning & Recycling ​

• Recycling and Waste Management ​

• Construction ​

In our sessions, we will discuss with you:

👷‍♂️ Which jobs will be impacted most
⚙️ What new skills workers need for automated mobility trends
👷‍♂️Which transport workforce groups are expected to be impacted mostly and how
💡 How to create inclusive reskilling pathways that leave no one behind

This isn't a passive webinar!

Your expertise is very welcomed to validate our research findings on skills matrices, labour market forecasts, and employment trends in automated mobility. Your input matters, and will directly shape workforce and business strategies and policy recommendations. 

This is your opportunity to ensure our research findings reflect ground truth and translate into implementable strategies. 

When?
📅 26 May 2026
🕒 13:00-17:00 CEST

Uneven capacities in a context of rapid change

The study confirms that municipalities are central to implementing EU policies, yet their ability to respond to change varies significantly across Member States. Differences in administrative structures, recruitment systems, and workforce organisation translate into uneven levels of preparedness when new demands emerge.

At the same time, a major constraint lies in the lack of reliable and comparable data on local government employment and skills. In many cases, it remains difficult to assess workforce composition, qualification levels, or emerging needs. This limits forward-looking planning and makes it harder for local authorities to anticipate how jobs and roles will evolve in response to technological and regulatory shifts.

Skills systems under pressure

The report highlights that training and professional development systems are often fragmented and decentralised. Access to continuous learning varies widely, particularly for smaller municipalities, and career development pathways remain limited.

This becomes increasingly critical in sectors undergoing transformation. As new technologies and service models emerge, particularly in areas such as transport and mobility, local authorities are expected not only to adapt infrastructure and services, but also to navigate the implications for jobs, skills, and workforce organisation. Yet the systems needed to support this shift are not consistently in place.

Bridging local action and EU skills frameworks

To address these challenges, the study points to the importance of stronger alignment with EU-level initiatives. Frameworks such as the Pact for Skills and the Public Administration Skills Agenda (ComPAct) are highlighted as key instruments to foster collaboration, improve coordination, and support more structured upskilling pathways across administrations.

For local authorities, engaging with these initiatives offers an opportunity to move beyond fragmented approaches and towards more strategic workforce planning, while also connecting local needs with European priorities.

From capacity gaps to transition management

Taken together, the findings highlight a broader challenge: local governments are expected to deliver complex transitions, but often lack the tools to anticipate and manage their workforce implications. Whether in mobility, energy, or digital services, changes in technologies and business models are already reshaping job profiles and skill requirements.

This points to the need for a more integrated approach, where local authorities are not only implementers of policy, but also active actors in understanding labour market shifts, engaging relevant stakeholders, and supporting workers as roles evolve. Strengthening cooperation between public authorities, industry, and training providers becomes essential to ensure that transitions are both effective and inclusive.

Policy implications for cities and regions

The report ultimately calls for stronger coordination, improved data collection, and more consistent frameworks for workforce development at local level. For cities and regions, this reinforces the importance of building internal capacity while also working across sectors and governance levels.

Ensuring that local workforces can adapt to change is not a secondary concern, but a prerequisite for delivering policy objectives. As transitions accelerate, the ability to anticipate skills needs, support workforce evolution, and align local action with broader EU initiatives will play a decisive role in shaping their outcomes.

It positions the European automotive sector, accounting for around 7% of EU GDP and millions of jobs, at a critical turning point, shaped by global competition and the rapid shift towards electrification, digitalisation and AI-driven systems. A central argument is that value creation is increasingly moving towards software, batteries and data-driven services, requiring a coordinated push in research and innovation to retain industrial leadership in Europe.

The report identifies key technological priorities, including software-defined vehicles, connected and automated mobility (CCAM), battery innovation and advanced manufacturing. It also stresses the need to accelerate innovation cycles and strengthen European supply chains.

Beyond technology, the report implicitly highlights a structural transformation of work across the automotive value chain. As systems become more software-driven and data-intensive, traditional roles are being redefined, and new skill profiles are emerging. The transition towards AI-enabled, connected and automated mobility is therefore not only an industrial challenge, but also a workforce one.

In this context, the need to anticipate skills demand, address labour shortages and support workforce adaptation becomes central to ensuring that technological progress translates into sustainable competitiveness. The report points to the importance of developing the necessary expertise across the value chain and aligning education, training and industrial strategies accordingly.

These challenges are closely aligned with ongoing European efforts to support a just and inclusive transition, as reflected in broader EU policy frameworks such as the Green Deal, the Digital Decade and the automotive Industrial Action Plan. They also resonate with current initiatives focused on understanding how automation, digitalisation and new mobility systems will reshape jobs, tasks and skills in the sector.

For industry stakeholders, the key takeaway is that maintaining competitiveness in the transition towards electrified, connected and automated mobility will depend not only on technological innovation, but on the ability to integrate workforce development, reskilling and organisational adaptation into core business strategies.

Read the report:

Digital transformation does not only eliminate jobs — it often changes them from within.

Cedefop’s new working paper edition examines how automation and AI reshape tasks inside existing occupations, sometimes creating skill mismatches where workers’ competences no longer align with evolving requirements.

The findings also show:

• Uneven access to employer-provided training

• Increased digital intensity in certain roles

• Segmentation by age and gender in digitally intensive functions

• Links between digitalisation, perceived job insecurity and worker well-being

These insights are relevant for discussions around training rights, inclusion, job quality and ensuring that technological transitions do not exacerbate inequalities.

What measures are needed to ensure fair access to upskilling opportunities in rapidly digitalising sectors?

The full publication is available here: https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/files/6228_en.pdf