Skills anticipation and technology foresight have until very recently existed as separate fi elds in more-or-less isolated expert and policy-making environments. As part of the project Applying the G20 Training Strategy, the ILO and Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO started to develop Skills Technology Foresight, a new tool of skill needs anticipation. It is an attempt to bridge the two areas of research and planning to introduce a technology foresight-based method of skills anticipation built around international best practices