Consortium

Coordinator · leads WP1 (Coordination – governance, ethics, data, risk), WP2 (Apparatus – framework, protocols, baseline) and WP10 (Impact – communication, dissemination and exploitation) · 150 person-months · HTI2S laboratory. Narrative and historical–archival strands, the French and Belgian fieldwork, the Musée des Arts et Métiers (MuAM) as archival and exhibition resource, and a vocational and lifelong-training mission dating from 1794. Delivers the narrative-analytic framework (D2.1), the site-dyad protocol and country vocational-system briefs (D2.3), the pre-field historiography (D2.4), the curriculum response interval (D4.5), the field-revised framework (D4.6), the site historiographies and discordant-case register (D8.3), the taught-layer synthesis (D8.5) and the integrated meso assessment (D8.11, M46). Owns the CRI instrument and site-dyad protocol (KER7), the narrative explanation protocol and DCR (KER8) and the integrated meso assessment (KER9); carries the integrity arm of the scientific co-direction and leads scientific dissemination and clustering (task 10.1, with UW and QUIZAS; D10.2, M48). Beneficiary of BRIDGES 5.0.

Leads WP3 (Opening – Round 1 collection and presence test) and WP4 (Reading – coding, historiography, handouts) · 119 person-months, the field and coding backbone · the only partner holding field anthropology and occupational-health and disability instruments together · co-leads the field manual (D2.2), coordinates Round 1 across six countries (task 3.1) and works six field sites – three it leads, three with ZOCG · delivers the Lived-Competence Field Digest (D3.1), the researcher-presence report (D4.1, with IRES) and the Round 1 corpus (D4.2) · carries coding and reliability for both rounds and the Round 2 closing and confrontation sessions (tasks 7.2–7.4; D7.1, with IRES) · owns the Competence Equity Monitor (KER2, D8.7) · prior field experience in the Balkans and Ukraine, Montenegro included.

Leads WP6 (Measurement – survey, taxonomy, comparability) and WP8 (Synthesis – Observatory, Matrix, Monitor, assessment) · 63 person-months · joins the head of its Department of Data Science with energy-economics and geospatial-AI researchers · the econometric backbone and its articulation to the European instruments – the Meso Competence Survey, the ESCOX extraction and the version-pinned, self-hosted ESCO instance on which the taxonomy pipeline runs · delivers the extraction and green-layer validation (D6.1), the field-derived taxonomy (D6.2), the survey datasets (D6.3, D8.9), the Competence Visibility Module and Report (D6.4), the Observatory v1 and final release (D8.1, D8.10), the meso–macro gap analysis (D8.2) and the Transition Choices Survey (D8.4) · owns the Meso Competence Observatory (KER1, with POLYGON) and the Meso Competence Survey datasets (KER3) · computes the Matrix with IRES · contact point for the STR Partnership.

Leads WP9 (Policy – the SMP, EU skills-infrastructure feedback, roadmap and guidance) · 24 person-months · the polity channel · runs the one-day Science-Meets-Politics (SMP) conference in Brussels at M24 and its two working sessions (task 9.1, with IRES; D9.1) · the EU skills-infrastructure feedback dossier – ESCO change requests and the concordance as linked open data (D9.2) · owns the xRoadmap, xGuidance and xProPol (KER4, D9.3, M44) · carries the social-partner and VET-authority advisory route (task 9.4).

Leads the Expo-Action (task 5.4, in WP5) with CNAM's Musée des Arts et Métiers (MuAM) · 27 person-months, 15 of them in WP5 · exhibition design and accessibility practice, on a format already designed in the Beldavia exhibition series · delivers the co-creation and experiential design protocol (D2.5), the field residency workbook (D3.2), the Expo-Action at the MuAM (D5.4, M44), its design record (D5.5), the educational toolkits (D5.6) and the impact assessment (D5.7) · in support of KER6 through the exhibition design protocol (D5.1).

Leads WP7 (Return – Round 2 collection and closing sessions) · 48 person-months, across all ten packages · executive arm of the scientific co-direction (task 1.6), held by the principal investigator · Swedish fieldwork and the NECx method · writes the Policy-Readable Handout that opens the policy interface (PRH, D4.3, M20), the Round 1 results pack (D4.4, M22) and the responsive collection protocol (D4.7) · coordinates the Round 2 collection after the SMP (task 7.1; D7.1, with RSU) · owns the Matrix (KER5, D8.6, computed with UW) and the energy-sector AI-literacy specification (KER10, D8.8) · method owner of the GRBC (task 5.3) and in support of the GTA model and xEET replication kit (KER6, D5.1, with ZOCG) · provides the project's locally hosted AI and data infrastructure.

Leads WP5 (Translations – academies, youth participation, bootcamp and the Expo-Action) · 43 person-months · youth and NEET reach – Montenegro has the highest share of young people in the consortium, extended by a large young diaspora · convenes the youth panel in Podgorica at M4 (task 5.5; D5.9, M6) and runs the Green Transition Academies with RSU (task 5.1), with the Youth Orientation Module (D5.2) and the xEET measurement (task 5.2) · delivers the Montenegrin cohort of the Gender Reversed Bootcamp with IRES, and its facilitator manual and participant workbook (D5.3, M34) · owns the GTA model and xEET replication kit (KER6, D5.1, with IRES and QUIZAS in support) · carries the youth and Western Balkans strand of the guidance (task 9.3).

Leads task 6.4 (instrumentation and North-American comparability, in WP6) · 22 person-months · a research SME combining population-research tools (large-scale surveys, geospatial data) with systems-research tools for participatory and causal modelling – fuzzy cognitive mapping per Circle, concept mapping before ESCO ingestion and an AI-enhanced optimised Delphi at the SMP conference · the project's only North-American comparability check, against O*NET and the Canadian OaSIS classification (D6.5, M28; the check itself delivered with the gap analysis, D8.2) · co-owns the Meso Competence Observatory (KER1), carrying the ESCO–O*NET–OaSIS route to Employment and Social Development Canada and the Labour Market Information Council · hosts the M15–M18 working mission of a UW and an IRES researcher in Montreal · Canada is associated to Pillar II of Horizon Europe.