The NextSkills Studies suggest a new framework for Future Skills which consists of 17 clearly defined Future Skills Profiles. In addition, the Future Skills Triple Helix reference framework has been developed, giving a foundation for the Future Skills.
This paper describes how the variety of existing future skills approaches can be compared conceptually. For this purpose, a framework model for future skills is proposed, which contains 17 future skills profiles in three different categories. The skill names of the dozen or so future skills studies published in the German-speaking world since 2015 are assigned to the 17 future skills profiles using a qualitative content analysis method.
In addition, two tables present the 13 German-language and 37 international Future Skills studies.