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About Reskilling 4 employment
Reskilling 4 Employment (R4E) was officially announced by the European Round Table for Industry (ERT) in May 2021. ERT is a high level forum which brings together CEOs and Chairs from a cross-section of 60 European industrial & technology companies. Established in 1983, its objective is to build consensus between business leaders on key themes affecting business and society.
R4E was devised by ERT’s Committee for Jobs, Skills & Impact, over a period of sustained research, outreach and consultation, to identify how best to address reskilling & upskilling needs in the European Union. In launching R4E, the goal of this pan-European programme is to serve as a hub that stimulates partnerships that provide reskilling opportunities to unemployed and ‘at-risk’ workers, so they can find employment in new occupations that are in-demand.
R4E leadership
José María Álvarez Pallete
Telefónica
Chairman & CEO
Cláudia Azevedo
Sonae
Chief Executive Officer
Michel Demaré
AstraZeneca
Chairman
Jean-François van Boxmeer
ERT
Chairman
Christian Klein
SAP
CEO and Member of the Executive Board
Ignacio Sánchez Galán
Iberdrola
Chairman & CEO
Martin Lundstedt
AB Volvo
President & CEO
Nestlé
Companies leading R4E
Programme Partners
R4E is an essential part of the European reskilling ecosystem, with the goal of reskilling 1 million Europeans by 2025. The ambition is very high, and we will scale-up in the current countries where R4E is already launched and are actively seeking to expand into new ones. We encourage additional companies, institutions, and public administrations to join us to urgently address this issue. Private-public cooperation will foster a more inclusive, sustainable, and fair digital society and economy.
José María Álvarez-Pallete
Chair of the ERT Committee on Jobs, Skills & Impact and Chairman & CEO of Telefónica
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