UpGrad_Me 2.0_Research_FV_EN

12 3. PROFESSIONAL FAMILIES: NACE SYSTEM AND UPGRAD_ME 2.0 MODEL The NACE classification system offers a range of professions differentiated into branches or occupational families that can help us to classify the different jobs in the European Union. NACE is the "Statistical Classification of Economic activities in the European Community" and is the subject of legislation at the European Union level, which imposes the use of the classification uniformly within all the Member States (European Commission, 2008). The UpGrad_Me 2.0 consortium has considered the NACE system to define the different professional families presented in the research, as well as in the rest of the Intellectual Outputs of the project, based on the Second Revision of the Manual (Rev.2), presented by Eurostats in 2006. Specifically, according to the system, a classification of professional families is established in 21 categories, ranging from the letter "A" to "U". The titles of these occupational families are summarised below: “ Agriculture, forestry and fishing ” ; “ Mining and quarrying ” ; “ Manufacturing ” ; “ Electricity, gas, steam and conditioning supply ” ; “ Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities ” ; “ Construction ” ; “ Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorbikes ” ; “ Transportation and storage ” ; “ Accommodation and food service activities ” ; “ Information and communication ” ; “ Financial and insurance activities ” ; “ Real estate activities ” ; “ Professional, scientific and technical activities ” ; “ Administrative and support service activities ” ; “ Public administration and defence; compulsory social security ” ; “ Education ” ; “ Human health and social work activities ” ; “ Arts, entertainment and recreation ” ; “ Other service activities ” ; “ Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use ” ; “ Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies ” . This classification table, although it is very complete and allows to discriminate between the professional families well, offers a very specific and complex panorama to differentiate by young people, even more, in the case of young migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. In this sense, in order to further simplify the classification, the project consortium carried out consultancy work with a multidisciplinary team dedicated to career guidance and human resources in order to define a simplified table of occupational families. After qualitative assessment and regular meetings, the consortium concluded that a simplified classification could be as follows: “ Agriculture, Livestock farming & fishing ” ; “S ocial services and health ” ; “C onstruction ” ; “P roduction and manufacturing ” ; “T ransportation and storage; sales & communication ” ; “A ccommodation and food services ” ; “T echnical and scientific ” ; “O ffice work ” ; “A rt, entertainment and recreation ”.