On 4 March 2026, a Skills4Nuclear Deliverable entitled analysing existing nuclear workforce assessment studies was published, as part of Work Package 2 (European Forum for Nuclear Workforce & Skills) lead by SCK CEN.
The Deliverable details the results of the analysis of 21 existing (nuclear) workforce assessments from national, sectoral, and European perspectives. It identifies trends, methodologies, outcomes, and highlights both strengths (best practices) and weaknesses of the available assessments.
Weaknesses mainly arise from limited data availability, strategic blind spots, organisational hurdles, and concerns about privacy and data protection.
Strengths can be found in strong governance, in active stakeholder engagement, in robust methodologies supporting data collection and in an effective process management.
The most important lessons learnt from the existing workforce assessments are:
- Most assessments map the current workforce and the future demand, but fewer address the HR supply and a skills strategy;
- Job classification frameworks vary widely which limits comparability;
- Governmental support is common, but recurring assessments are rare;
- Desktop research and stakeholder surveys are the most used methodologies to collect data.
The entire deliverable is available here.