ESCO

Description

ESCO is a common EU classification of occupations and skills, akin to the Taxonomy. The concepts in ESCO are translated into all official EU languages, aswell as some additional ones such as Arabic, and serve as a hub for interoperability between classifications on a national and European level.

The member states of the EU are bound by the Eures Directive to either create mappings between ESCO and their national occupational and skill structures, or to fully implement ESCO. The main purpose with the mapping is to enrich CVs and job ads sent to EURES with references (URIs) to the concepts in ESCO to which mappings from a national skill or occupation used in the CV or job ad has been created. In Sweden, we chose to map occupation name concepts and skills to corresponding concept types in ESCO. The mappings between the concept structures are made available via the Taxonomy. Member states' mapping tables are published on the ESCO website.

Concepts in ESCO are identified using persistent URIs, for example: http://data.europa.eu/esco/skill/1605025e-a179-421f-8f35-5b07d182a6b2.

For more information on ESCO, please visit https://esco.ec.europa.eu.