What role can mobility schemes play in addressing skills shortages in Europe?

This working paper is D7.3 (T3.3) of the Horizon Europe project GS4S - Global Strategy for Skills, Migration and Development (gs4s.eu). The working paper assesses the recent evolution of mobility schemes and partnerships in the European context, exploring the implications for using these initiatives to address skills shortages. Taking recent academic literature that has focused more on skills development and training as a starting point, this paper generates a typology that reviews mobility schemes based on the skills needs they are trying to address and the type of mobility they seek to support, ranging from short-term visits to long-term training or work placements. Building off this typology, the paper also includes short case studies of recent / ongoing mobility schemes, examining how they approach mobility and skills development and their outcomes to date.