Skillnets Themes

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Skillnets funds and facilitates training through over 60 networks of private sector companies in a range of sectors and regions. Each network was approved for funding after applying under four possible themes. These new themes place a renewed focus on the desired skills set for Ireland.

Theme 1: Facilitating the transferability of individuals’ skills to increase mobility and employability across mixed sectoral /regional networks.
The primary focus of this theme is on up-skilling, re-skilling and cross skilling of workers across sectors and/or regions. Training delivered under this theme promotes the adoption of incremental skills which are required to facilitate increased mobility, employability and enhanced business performance of network members.
Theme 2: Facilitating company diversification or transferability within a sector or from one sector to another.
The primary focus of this theme is facilitating the acquisition and transferability of skills to allow companies to diversify within their sector or to secure the transformational change of their business offering to a completely new sector.
Theme 3: Facilitating increased performance and growth in priority sectors.
The primary focus of this theme is on up-skilling individuals in the key skills necessary to enter into/expand within certain priority sectors which have been identified as high potential growth sectors.
Theme 4: Enhancing the general competency skills of the lifelong learner
The primary focus of this theme is the up-skilling of individuals in certain key competencies which have been identified by European policy as necessary skills for all European workers.