Just as a compass orients a traveller, the OECD Learning Compass 2030 indicates the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values students need not just to weather the changes in our environment and in our daily lives, but to help shape the future. The Learning Compass 2030 is composed of seven elements: (1) core foundations; (2) transformative competencies; (3) student agency/co-agency; (4) knowledge; (5) skills; (6) attitudes and values; and (7) anticipation-action-reflection cycle. This concept note focuses on the concept of skills for 2030. Skills are the ability and capacity to carry out processes and be able to use one's knowledge in a responsible way to achieve a goal. Skills are part of a holistic concept of competency, involving the mobilisation of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to meet complex demands. The OECD Learning Compass 2030 distinguishes between three different types of skills: cognitive and metacognitive skills; social and emotional skills; and physical and practical skills.