| ADF | Assembly of the Departments in France (Assemblée des Départements de France) |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| ALMPs | Active labour market policies |
| AMS | Austrian Public Employment Services |
| BA | German Public Employment Services, Federal Employment Agency |
| CBOP | Central Job Offer Database (Centralna Baza Ofert Pracy) |
| CET | Continuing education and training |
| CIOP | Central Institute for Job Security (Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy) |
| CIOP-PIB | Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute (Centralny Instytut Ochrony Pracy – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy) |
| CPAS | Local Social Assistance Centres (Centres publics d’action sociale) |
| CPB | Dutch Central Planning Bureau |
| CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility |
| DGEFP | General Delegation for Employment and Vocational Training in France (Délégation Générale à l’Emploi et à la Formation Professionnelle) |
| ENPOs | Entrepreneurial non-profit organisations |
| ESF | European Social Fund |
| EU-27 | European Union |
| EU-SILC | EU statistics on income and living conditions |
| EUIF | Estonian Public Employment Services |
| EURES | European Employment Services network |
| FGI | Focus Group Interviews |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| GEO | Government Equalities Office |
| GFIS | Gdansk Foundation for Social Innovation (Gdańska Fundacja Innowacji Spolecznej) |
| HR | Human resource |
| IAB | Institute for Employment Research |
| IBE-PIB | Educational Research Institute |
| ICF | International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| IEB | Integrated Employment Biographies |
| ILO | International Labour Organization |
| INQA | New Quality of Work Initiative (Initiative Neue Qualität der Arbeit) |
| ITA | Indicator of Future Labour Market Position |
| ITKB | Future Bottlenecks in Personnel Provision by Occupation indicator |
| ITKP | Future Bottlenecks in Personnel Provision indicator |
| JVS | German Job Vacancy Survey |
| KFS | National Training Fund (Krajowy Fundusz Szkoleniowy) |
| KZiS | Polish Classification of Occupations and Specialties (Klasyfikacja zawodów i specjalności) |
| LAFOS | Multi-Sectoral Joint Service Model in Finland |
| LCA | Latent Class Analysis |
| LFS | Labour Force Survey |
| MRPiPS | Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy (Ministerstwo Rodziny, Pracy i Polityki Społecznej) |
| NGO | Non-governmental organisation |
| NEET | Not in Education, Employment, or Training |
| OHP | Voluntary Labour Corps (Ochotnicze Hufce Pracy) |
| OPS | Social Assistance Offices (Ośrodki Pomocy Społecznej) |
| ORP | Regional Employment Office (Office Régional de Placement) |
| PES | Public Employment Services (Publiczne służby zatrudnienia) |
| PFRON | State Fund for the Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities (Państwowy Fundusz Rehabilitacji Osób Niepełnosprawnych) |
| PLMFS | Polish Labour Market Forecasting System |
| POA | Dutch Education and the Labour Market project |
| PPK | Employee Capital Plans (Pracowniczy Plan Kapitałowy) |
| PTPS | Polish Social Policy Association (Polskie Towarzystwo Polityki Społecznej) |
| PUP | Powiat Labour Offices (Powiatowe Urzędy Pracy) |
| PWE | The programme “Vocational Reintegration – Tapping into Potential” (Perspektive Wiedereinstieg – Potenziale erschließen) |
| ROA | Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market at Maastricht University |
| ROP | Regional Operational Programme |
| SHRC | Silver Human Resources Centre |
| SMEs | Small and Medium Enterprises |
| SOJO | System of Online Job Offers |
| SYRIUSZ | System for Labour Market and Social Service (System Informatyczny Rynku Pracy i Usług Spłecznych) |
| TE | Finnish Public Employment Services (Työ-ja elinkeinotoimisto) |
| WMSON | Warmian-Masurian Forum of People with Disabilities (Warmińsko-Mazurski Sejmik Osób Niepełnosprawnych) |
| WUP | Regional Labour Offices (Wojewódzkie Urzędy Pracy) |
| ZAZ | Vocational Development Centres (Zakłady Aktywności Zawodowej) |
| ZRSZ | Slovenian Employment Service (Zavod Republike Slovenije za zaposlovanje) |
| ZUS | Social Insurance Institution (Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych) |
Developing Public Employment Services for Economically Inactive People in Poland