On 8 April 2026, the AI-SECRETT coordination team held a meeting in Madrid with representatives of the Directorate General for New Forms of Employment and Labour Market Foresight, part of Spain’s Ministry of Labour and Social Economy. The meeting formed part of the project’s ongoing effort to strengthen dialogue with institutional stakeholders connected to its areas of work.
Representing the Directorate General were Lucila Finkel Morgenstern, Director General for New Forms of Employment, together with Jorge Martín and Susana Abad. The exchange focused on areas of shared interest between the Directorate General’s mandate and AI-SECRETT’s objectives, especially in relation to artificial intelligence, labour market change, emerging competences and future-oriented learning models.
The discussion addressed several themes that sit at the centre of current debates on AI and employment. Among them were labour market foresight and AI-driven competences, as well as the need for upskilling and reskilling in sectors undergoing digital transformation. The meeting also considered AI not only in terms of automation, but as a form of human capability augmentation, alongside the importance of understanding its wider societal impacts and possible mitigation strategies.
Particular attention was also given to the role of modular microcredential frameworks in supporting lifelong learning, as well as to the importance of multi-actor governance and stronger forms of public policy evidence around AI and employment. These are all areas that resonate directly with AI-SECRETT’s broader mission as a European project working across advanced AI education, creativity, research and innovation.
Beyond the exchange itself, the meeting also helped identify several possible lines of future collaboration. These included the opening of a formal channel for information exchange on labour trends, skill profiles and AI-related sectoral impacts; the active participation of the Directorate General in the AI-SECRETT stakeholder network; and the possibility of co-organising public events and working sessions focused on AI training, employment impact, and responses to AI-related transformation in the labour market.
Taken together, these outcomes point to the value of continued dialogue between public institutions, research, and education at a time when artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing both labour markets and learning pathways. For AI-SECRETT, this meeting represents another step in building the wider ecosystem of collaboration needed to address those changes in a thoughtful and future-oriented way.
