Innosuisse-Flagship-Projekte

SCESC treats skills like a circular economy: demand informs supply, evidence follows the learner, and matching is continuous. From 2022 to 2025, five Swiss universities built interoperable components so competences become visible, validated, and usable across education and work. The effort is funded as an Innosuisse Flagship.

In practice, we harmonize how employers and educators talk about competences by parsing job ads, curricula, and CVs (SP01, SP03) into a shared skill map (SP02). Individuals then carry a competence-first profile that captures formal, non-formal, and informal learning (SP05), ready for validation and targeted applications. An activation layer adds cadence: a digital coach runs a tight GROW conversation to end each session with a concrete checklist and reminders, while CoLearning Circles provide a weekly peer rhythm so goals turn into practice (SP04, SP06).

This matters because proof can travel beyond diplomas, next steps become specific, and peer accountability raises follow-through for individuals. Providers get live demand signals that reduce guesswork in program design, and validation lowers friction for recognition and admission. Employers see measurable skill gaps and better matching, so up- and reskilling are less of a blind bet.

To scale, we address fragmented content needs and costly quality. We prototyped an AI-supported workflow where firms broadcast skill needs, creators assemble targeted materials with generative support, and co-funding widens access for constrained learners (SP07). The Governance project provides background knowledge for technical development and implementation (SP08).

Consortium: WorkID (industry partner) with EHB, EPFL, UZH, ZHAW, and HSG. Period: 2022–2025.