Skills, training and supply chain
Updated: 12 December 2025. Objective: turn ambitions into credible timelines, through a European skills plan and a robust supply chain.
Assessment
The bottlenecks are not solely financial: skills and industrial capacities are sometimes lacking.
- Trades: welding, quality control, radiation protection, maintenance
- Critical components: forgings, valves, instrumentation
- Knowledge transfer: training and apprenticeships
"Skills Passport" plan
- Common competency frameworks.
- Mobility of qualified workers between Member States.
- Cross-border campuses for short-cycle training.
Supply chain
- Mapping of suppliers and dependencies.
- Support for productive investment (critical capacities).
- Quality: audits, qualification and operational feedback.
Useful questions for a hearing
Which capacities are critical? What training timeline? How to manage qualification and quality across a growing supply chain?