Europe's Fantastic Five: what the EU talent partnerships mean for data and AI freelancers
Welcome back after the summer! Before the holidays, we talked about how Europe needs talent. Now Europe is putting a new structure in place to connect its labour market with skilled professionals from outside the EU. Let's look at what is happening, and what it means for freelancers who are already here.
The EU Talent Pool
Europe is developing a new EU Talent Pool. Its aim is to help European employers facing labour shortages find skilled professionals from outside the EU. The platform is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2027.
The "Fantastic Five"
Alongside the Talent Pool, the EU has set up talent partnerships with five countries:
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Morocco
Tunisia
Egypt
I call them, with a smile, Europe's Fantastic Five.
These partnerships are designed to develop skills, support training and create more regular and structured pathways for labour mobility between these countries and Europe. ICT is already named as a sector of common interest in the partnerships with Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tunisia and Egypt.
Europe has skills too
The reasoning is simple. European companies have skills shortages. International talent has skills. The new European talent system can help connect them. Those are not my words; they are written in black and white.
But Europe has skills as well. I am not against hiring outside Europe. I am pro-Europe, and I believe companies can find a lot of what they need right here, if the talent is visible.
An invitation to data and AI professionals in Europe
Europe is looking for skills beyond its borders. So are we, starting inside Europe. VirtualMasst is growing its network of independent specialists in Europe, with a new focus on data, AI, analytics and data engineering.
If you are self-employed and qualified in one of these areas, we want you on the platform:
Data analysts, data scientists and data engineers
AI engineers and machine learning engineers
BI analysts and Power BI experts
Data architects and cloud data engineers
MLOps engineers and GenAI specialists
Data governance and data quality specialists
Data and AI consultants, and data strategy consultants
Data platform engineers and analytics engineers
NLP engineers and computer vision engineers
Quantitative analysts and risk and fraud specialists
You have the expertise. Make sure companies can find it.
Your next step
If you are a self-employed data or AI professional in Europe, create your profile and be visible to companies hiring in Europe. Join as a talent
If you are a company looking for this expertise, explore data engineers, data scientists, data analysts and AI consultants on VirtualMasst.
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