European Commission 5 March 2025, COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS A STEM Education Strategic Plan: skills for competitiveness and innovation

1.Introduction To unlock its full potential, the EU must strategically leverage its most important asset: its human capital. The Competitiveness Compass clearly identifies the EU’s gaps in productivity and innovation capacity and provides a clear path for the EU to become ‘the place where tomorrow’s technologies, services and clean products are invented, manufactured and marketed’ 1 .