Individual learning accounts Evaluation

The Council Recommendation on individual learning accounts requires the Commission to assess progress and report to the Council by 16 June 2027. The evaluation will review efforts to engage more working-age adults in training to increase participation in adult learning and reduce skills shortages, in particular by helping them access labour-market relevant training and by further incentivising them to reskill and…

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The French CPF (compte personnel de formation) continues, year after year, to adapt itself to become the ideal tool in the professional pathway of all workers and all working-age adults. Since its creation in 2015 and its significant renewal in 2018, the CPF has completely changed the vocational training landscape in France.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) welcomes the European Commission's evaluation of the 2022 Council Recommendation on individual learning accounts. PMI is a not-for-profit organisation and a leading authority in project management, active since 1969 and supported by more than 300 chapters worldwide.

CESI welcomes the European Commissions evaluation of the Council Recommendation on individual learning accounts. The Recommendation pursues a necessary objective: Enabling all working-age adults to access labour-market-relevant training, irrespective of employment or professional status, while increasing motivation to engage in upskilling and reskilling.

The Partnership sees clear potential value in a personal training right for the renewable energy workforce. We speak for the whole renewable value chain wind, solar power and solar heat, bioenergy and biogas, geothermal, ocean energy, heat pumps, thermal storage, grids and the electrical trades and for the people who design, build, install, commission, operate and maintain all of it, from utility-scale generation to…

ENSIE, the European Network of Work Integration Social Enterprises, represents the interests of national and regional networks of Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs), striving for more inclusive and integrated forms of employment at European level. WISEs are enterprises whose main objective is the social and professional integration of disadvantaged people.

Eurochambres’ input for the “Reskilling and upskilling evaluation of individual learning accounts” call for evidence Increasing participation in adult learning remains a major challenge. With participation at around 40%, the EU remains far from its target of at least 60% of adults participating in training every year by 2030.

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Finance Denmark/Employer thanks the European Commission for the opportuni-ty to contribute to the evaluation of Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs). Finance Denmark supports the ambition of strengthening adult participation in education, training and skills development throughout working life.

The European Federation for Family Employment and Home Care (EFFE) strongly supports the objectives of the Council Recommendation on Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs). The domestic & home care sector illustrates particularly well the value of an individual learning right that is attached to the worker rather than to a specific employer.

**Feedback from North Donegal Fishermens Group (NDFG), County Donegal, Ireland** North Donegal Fishermens Group welcomes the Commissions evaluation of Individual Learning Accounts and the objective of increasing participation in adult learning and reducing skills gaps.

Implementation of Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs) in Italy Italy has not introduced, nor is it currently planning to introduce, a national Individual Learning Account (ILA) system as defined by the 2022 Council Recommendation on Individual Learning Accounts. Consequently, there is no individual training account granting each person transferable and accumulable training entitlements throughout their working life.

U.Di.Con. APS welcomes the assessment of the Council Recommendation on individual learning accounts, recognising lifelong learning and upskilling as essential tools to accompany citizens in labour market transformations and foster greater social and professional inclusion. In order for individual learning accounts to be a real opportunity, U.Di.Con.

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INPUT 9 September 2026 BusinessEurope input to Call for Evidence: ILAs ctive Labour Market Policies Overall comments 1. BusinessEurope supports the objective of increasing participation in relevant upskilling and reskilling ,and to share best practices among the Member States.

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The Confederation of Danish Employers (DA) and the Danish Trade Union Confederation (FH) joint feedback on call for evidence for Reskilling and upskilling – evaluation of individual learning accounts Copenhagen, 17.

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ACV-CSC, the Belgian trade union confederation, welcomes this evaluation. Belgium illustrates a central challenge: it has the right to training on federal level, but not the financial support. On the regional level a limited amount of specific fiscal incentives exists, but without clear links between time, financial incentives and personal outcomes.

The Malta Sociological Association (MSA) notes the evaluation of the EU Recommendation on Individual Learning Accounts and the importance of reskilling, upskilling and lifelong learning in the context of changing labour markets, including the digital and green transitions. The MSA recommends that the evaluation explicitly incorporate Social Impact Assessment (SIA) and a social rights perspective.

The Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association (BICA) welcomes the European Commissions evaluation of the Council Recommendation of 16 June 2022 on individual learning accounts (ILAs). The evaluation is timely in view of changing skills needs driven by the digital and green transitions, technological change, and the growing need for lifelong upskilling and reskilling.

Forem could consider that the objectives pursued by the European Recommendation on individual learning accounts are relevant insofar as they promote better visibility of training opportunities, transparency of training entitlements, better traceability of skills and portability of learning outcomes and lifelong learning.

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Confprofessioni supports Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs) as a tool to strengthen the right to lifelong learning, but stresses the need to make them genuinely inclusive, flexible and neutral with regard to employment status.

The Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Trades represents the interests of some 21.900 member businesses from the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The majority of our members are micro-enterprises with around 10 employees.

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Latvia completed the piloting of its Individual Learning Accounts (ILA) approach on mid-2026 under the Recovery and Resilience Facility investment 2.3.1.4.i, Development of the Individual Learning Accounts Approach.

Portugal already has relevant instruments supporting adult participation in training, notably the Training Voucher (Cheque-Formação) and Digital Training Voucher (Cheque-Formação + Digital). These reflect key ILA principles, particularly individual funding and freedom to choose training and providers. However, there is scope to bring the Portuguese system closer to the EU ILA concept. 1.

YouthProAktiv welcomes the evaluation of the Council Recommendation on individual learning accounts. In a labour market shaped by digitalisation, the green transition and changing skills needs, access to continuous learning is increasingly important.

AGE Platform Europe welcomes the potential of Individual Learning Accounts (ILA's) to strengthen lifelong learning and empower individuals to develop their skills throughout their lives. ILAs must be genuinely inclusive and accessible to people of all ages.

CEOE fully endorses the European Unions objectives regarding lifelong learning, employability and the adaptation of skills to the digital, green and demographic transitions. Lifelong learning is an essential tool for enhancing peoples opportunities, promoting professional mobility and contributing to a more productive, competitive and inclusive economy.

As regards your concept of lifelong learning for adults, we find this idea interesting, but we do not consider it as extraordinary: 1. Discrimination: in practice, this idea discriminates against the very people you want to prepare for a constantly evolving labour market. The roadmap presented focuses on courses for professional development and retraining with a maximum duration of 12 months.

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The Individual Learning Accounts initiative represents an important step towards strengthening lifelong learning across Europe. However, I believe its full potential cannot be achieved through 27 separate national systems.

APIT and the National Tourism Platform Moldova welcome the European Commissions evaluation of the 2022 Council Recommendation on Individual Learning Accounts. We support the principle that training entitlements should follow the individual throughout working life and be embedded in an enabling framework combining quality-assured learning, career guidance, skills assessment, validation and accessible digital…

Slovak Republic welcomes the evaluation of individual learning accounts as an important opportunity to take stock of the implementation of this instrument across Member States and to identify practical lessons for its further development.

The objective of increasing participation in adult learning and reducing skills gaps is strongly supported. Lifelong learning is essential for improving productivity, resilience and economic competitiveness across all sectors.

I would like to give my testimony as a beneficiary who wished to mobilise his training account in the context of retraining. The principle of individual learning accounts is an important step towards lifelong learning. However, my experience shows that, in its implementation, this scheme does not always meet the real needs of people engaged in retraining.

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