Looking back at our successful validation workshop on the employment and skills impacts of CCAM

On 26 May 2026, we have organised an online validation workshop dedicated to the employment effects and skills impacts of Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM)!

The workshop brought together project partners and external stakeholders to discuss preliminary findings, validate emerging results and reflect on how CCAM may reshape transport professions, workforce needs and reskilling pathways in the coming years.

The session opened with an introduction by the ReSKILLING Coordinator, Matina Loukea (CERTH/HIT), who presented the overall objectives of the project. ReSKILLING aims to support the adaptation of Europe’s transport workforce to the CCAM transition through inclusive, evidence-based and stakeholder-driven approaches. The project focuses not only on technological change, but also on its wider social, organisational and employment implications across the CCAM value chain.

Karoline Führer (ECORYS) presented the preliminary findings of the ReSKILLING skills matrix, showing how job roles and competence requirements are expected to evolve across different levels of CCAM deployment, from SAE automation Levels 0 to 5.

The analysis highlighted four main trends:

1. increasing technical depth,
2. growing importance of assurance and governance functions, 
3. a shift towards human judgement and oversight,
4. and stronger needs for coordination across the CCAM ecosystem.

Davide Dolente (ECORYS) then presented preliminary employment forecasting results, building on updated scenarios from previous research. The analysis suggested that the scenario characterised by fast technological development and relatively limited deployment restrictions appears most aligned with current evidence, although differences between scenarios remain relatively limited. These results provided a basis for further discussion on how employment patterns may evolve across transport occupations as CCAM technologies are progressively deployed.

The workshop also addressed the differentiated impacts of CCAM on “special” workforce groups, work led by the ReSKILLING Coordinator. Participants discussed groups that may be more strongly or differently affected by automation and digitalisation, including older workers, young professionals, workers with limited digital confidence, women in technical roles, migrant workers and workers in precarious forms of employment. This discussion supported the project’s broader aim of ensuring that reskilling and workforce adaptation strategies are inclusive and responsive to diverse needs. Interactive elements were included throughout the session, with Mentimeter used to collect participant feedback on the presented findings and their relevance for training design, workforce planning and policy development.

In the second part of the workshop, Fabienne-Agnes Baumann and Niklas Creemers (VDI/VDE-IT) presented the persona-based approach introduced in ReSKILLING to support the development of reskilling journeys. The approach uses evidence-based personas to better understand the needs, barriers and opportunities of different groups affected by CCAM deployment. Participants worked in breakout groups using a Miro board to analyse four developed personas and explore possible pathways for their transition into the future CCAM labour market.

The breakout discussions highlighted several barriers to inclusive workforce transition, including ageism, language barriers, limited access to training, low digital confidence and difficulties linked to precarious employment conditions.

At the same time, participants identified important enabling factors, such as inclusive qualification formats, public funding mechanisms, gender-sensitive career guidance, flexible learning opportunities and targeted support for career transitions.

The workshop provided valuable validation input for the next phases of ReSKILLING, particularly for the development of skills matrices, reskilling journeys, training-related outputs and policy recommendations. By combining forecasting results, stakeholder feedback and persona-based analysis, the workshop contributed to a better understanding of how CCAM can be implemented in a way that supports a fair, inclusive and future-ready transport workforce.