“The Future of Work & Skills” white paper summarises the learnings and the potential that has been identified from the MyData Accelerator for Work & Skills project, coordinated by The Finnish State Development Company Vake in 2019-2020. The participants in this program see a great opportunity for global leadership in building an ethical, functioning and profitable skills data ecosystem for the development of services related to work & skills. The paper aligns with the European Strategy for Data (19.2.2020) that calls for a common EU skills data space.