Skill Portability
Where do your skills take you in Europe?
Map your occupation to ESCO v1.2. Understand how your credentials translate across all 27 EU member states — and what it takes to work there.
Analyse your skill portability
Fill in where you are, where you want to go, and your professional profile. The more detail you provide, the more precise the analysis.
What is skill portability?
Skill portability is your ability to have your professional qualifications, skills, and work experience recognised and valued when moving to another EU country. For professional qualifications, recognition is a right under EU law.
The stakes are concrete: in the European Labour Authority's 2025 data, 98% of the occupations in shortage somewhere in Europe are in surplus, at least in some regions, in another country (412 of 419). Much of Europe's skills problem is a matching problem, and portability helps fix it.
Under Directive 2005/36/EC on Professional Qualifications, EU citizens have the right to have their professional qualifications recognised in another member state. Where a profession is regulated, the host country's competent authority decides. Seven professions — doctors, general-care nurses, dentists, vets, midwives, pharmacists and architects — are recognised automatically on the basis of harmonised training; the others go through the general system.
Even for non-regulated roles, EQF (European Qualifications Framework) levels map your diploma to a common 8-level scale, making it easier for employers anywhere in Europe to understand your credentials at a glance.
Hidden barriers still exist: language requirements, employer unfamiliarity with foreign credentials, and different professional cultures can all affect your mobility. This tool gives an AI-written first view of those barriers and next steps. Confirm anything that matters with the recognition body.
~10M
working-age EU citizens living in another member state
Source: European Commission, intra-EU labour mobility report 2024
7
professions recognised automatically across the EU, from doctors to architects
Source: Directive 2005/36/EC
EQF 1–8
qualification levels used to compare diplomas across borders
Source: European Qualifications Framework
What this means for you
The EU is legislating to make skills portable
The Skills Portability Initiative, announced in the Union of Skills, became a legislative proposal on 15 September 2026: the Skills Portability Act (COM(2026) 992), part of the EU Fair Labour Mobility Package, alongside a revision of the Professional Qualifications Directive (COM(2026) 995). It would give workers, employers and authorities comparable, digital information on qualifications, issued in a standard format and held in the EU Digital Identity Wallet. It is now with the European Parliament and the Council, and is not yet law.
One problem it targets is overqualification — people with a degree working in jobs below that level. Among employed graduates in the EU it affects around 20% of nationals, 30% of citizens of another EU country, and 40% of non-EU citizens (Eurostat, 2024).
This is exactly what portability analysis is for: mapping your profile to ESCO so your competences read the same way in every member state, and turning them into credentials an employer can verify instantly.
What you get
ESCO v1.2 mapping
Your occupation and skills described in ESCO, the EU's skills and occupations taxonomy, which Europass and EURES also use.
Directive 2005/36/EC
A first view of whether your profession is regulated in your target country, and which body handles recognition. Written by an AI model: confirm with that body.
Skill transfer analysis
Which of your skills carry over, which you would need to add, and how hard recognition is likely to be (low, medium or high). Written by an AI model, not a score.
Skill gap report
Understand the gap between your current level and what employers expect in your target country, with specific steps to close it.
Europass & EU Talent Pool compatibility
Your profile, in the language the EU understands
The EU Talent Pool (Regulation 2026/1047) and Europass both use ESCO as their skills vocabulary. When your profile is ESCO-mapped, it speaks the same language — making registration and cross-border recognition faster.
Europass-compatible profile
Your ESCO-mapped occupation and skills can go straight into a Europass profile, the EU's free CV and profile tool, available in all EU languages.
ESCO skills passport
Generate a W3C Verifiable Credential anchored to ESCO skill URIs — a portable, machine-verifiable record of your competences that any employer or platform can validate.
EU Talent Pool ready
When the EU Talent Pool platform launches (expected late 2027), ESCO-mapped profiles will align with its registration requirements — via Europass, the designated registration channel.
Your next step
Prove your digital skills with a credential anyone can check.
The TalentPath test covers the five areas of the EU’s DigComp framework. It tests digital skills, not the skills of a particular job. If you reach a level, you get a signed credential that an employer can check for free.
Assessed
60 scored questions · 5 DigComp areas
Signed
W3C VC · Ed25519
Verifiable
Instant · Free · talentpath.eu/verify