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E2E and SkillsCompass Go Global: Serbia’s Career Guidance Innovation Selected for WorldSkills Conference 2026 in Shanghai

E2E (From Education to Employment) and its flagship tool SkillsCompass have been officially selected to present at the Skills CoLab at WorldSkills Conference 2026, taking place in Shanghai, China, from 23 to 25 September. Developed by a four-partner consortium with the support of Swiss Development Cooperation, SkillsCompass has already transformed the career prospects of over 59,000 young Serbians — and is now bringing that story to the world.

The Skills CoLab is one of the world’s premier forums for skills development innovation, connecting pioneering projects with a global audience of partners, funders, and policymakers. Selection is competitive and recognition of genuine impact.

Starting with the Right Question

Most career guidance systems ask young people what they want to be. SkillsCompass asks who they are. That reframing — deceptively simple, fundamentally different — is the foundation of an ecosystem that produces results no conventional approach can match.

At the core are three scientifically validated diagnostic instruments — WayFi, IdentyFi, and Basic Check — developed by Swiss diagnostic firm and innovator gateway.one. These tools go beyond interests and competencies to assess vocational personality traits: the deeper profile that determines not just where someone might fit, but where they will thrive.

Diagnostic results are not the end of the process. Across all 11 JOB INFO Centres nationwide, trained career counsellors translate those results into personalised guidance conversations with each young person. Digital precision meets human understanding.

What sets SkillsCompass apart from similar initiatives is its direct integration with the labour market. Through a partnership with Infostud — Serbia’s largest employment platform — each user’s diagnostic profile is matched in real time against active job vacancies and live employer demand. The path from self-discovery to employment opportunity has never been shorter.

„Our system doesn’t tell young people what to do. It helps them discover where they can genuinely make a difference — and then connects them directly to the market that is waiting for them.”

— Oliver Streit, Head of E2E Project, NIRAS International Consulting

The Consortium Behind the Innovation

SkillsCompass is the product of four organisations whose expertise is precisely complementary:

  • JOB INFO Center Association — a network of 11 career guidance centres in direct contact with young people across Serbia.
  • Infostud — Serbia’s largest job matching platform, bridging diagnostic outcomes with real employer needs and live vacancies.
  • gateway.one — Swiss diagnostic tools innovator and developer of the validated WayFi, IdentyFi, and Basic Check instruments.
  • NIRAS International Consulting — international project lead, contributing expertise in skills development and programme design across dozens of countries.

The project is backed by Swiss Development Cooperation — a mark of the rigorous standards applied throughout its design and implementation.

Results That Speak for Themselves

SkillsCompass is not a pilot. It is an operational system with measurable impact on the ground. received different career guidance services. Participants consistently report significantly greater clarity about their vocational direction following combined diagnostic and counselling sessions. For the first time in Serbia, psychometric diagnostics are directly linked to active job vacancies, closing a loop that no previous system had managed to close.

An Invitation to Build Something Together

WorldSkills CoLab is not just an opportunity to present — it is a platform for concrete conversations about partnership and knowledge transfer. The E2E consortium is actively seeking three types of collaborators:

  • Country-level implementers — ministries of education or labour, public employment services, or TVET institutions seeking to modernise career guidance and connect youth more effectively to labour market realities.
  • Labour market intelligence providers — organisations with strong data on employer needs and vacancy trends whose insights could enrich diagnostic matching in new national contexts.
  • Development finance actors — bilateral and multilateral organisations interested in co-funding or co-designing adaptations of the SkillsCompass model in emerging markets where youth unemployment and skills mismatches are most acute.

The overarching framework, partnership model, and counsellor training methodology are open for knowledge exchange. Book a session with the E2E team at Skills CoLab:

https://worldskillsconference2026.com/skills-colab/teams/e2e-from-education-to-employment/