GW PSCWP Team Presents LAiSER to OECD, European Commission and Groningen Declaration Network (GDN)

The GW Program on Skills, Credentials and Workforce Policy's LAiSER (Leveraging AI for Skills Extraction and Research) team completed a trip to Paris, Brussels, and Oslo in late October to present an overview and demo of the LAiSER project to international audiences. At the OECD headquarters in Paris, the OECD Education and Skills Directorate was briefed on opportunities to apply LAiSER to overcome barriers to accurately measuring the supply and demand for skills in OECD member countries. Similar opportunities were discussed with the European Commission’ Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion; the European Training Foundation; and the ESCO (European Skills, Competencies, and Occupations) team in Brussels, where we learned about opportunities to align with the European Union of Skills initiative and efforts to measure skill attainment in EU member states. At the GDN conference Oslo, we presented a live demo of our skill extraction tool and described opportunities for credential evaluation organizations to adopt a more AI-focused workflow while continuing to leverage the expertise of human credential evaluators.