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Key Aspects of the EU 2030 High-Tech T-shaped Skills Vision for Smart Industrial Specialisation and Digital Transformation -- extracts
Five focus areas
Key Trends
Digital transformation is not the end goal but a meaning and paradigm shift that happens at 3 layers:
1. Culture and organisation;
2. People and skills;
3. Technology and infrastructure.
Data-driven decision making and customer centricity;
Transition in employment patterns from life-long employee at one company towards working at multiple companies and projects at a time;
Collaborative work across disciplines being the new norm.
Key Challenges
Continuous up/re-skilling of the workforce for different segments of the population:
1. Already employed professionals to stay up-to-date with the technology;
2. Unemployed youth people to get a job;
3. Workforce older than 50 years; etc.
Provision of personalised education & training at large scale;
Lack of transversal skills under the current education curricula:
=> Collaborative skills, Digital Literacy, Cognitive Skills, Learn to Learn, Problem solving, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking, Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Business Thinking, Communication Skills (e.g. Pitching and Selling ideas), Ethics;
Lack of certification schemes for the trainings being provided;
Major disparities between Member States.
Key Needs
Digital Transformation in parallel to the Cultural Transformation;
Transformation of higher education using novel teaching tools and methods
=>i.e. Flipped Classroom, Peer Learning, User Experience Laboratory
Shift from mass towards personalised education;
Flexible contracts for certain profiles rather than permanent ones (e.g. for 3D designers, experts etc. to meet punctual needs for a certain period of time);
Validation and Recognition of acquired skills via trainings across entire labour market;
Setting up tailored training programs specific to start-ups, SMEs and big corporates;
Monitoring mechanism to measure the success over training & education programs;
Setting up labour mobility schemes across EU, not only bringing talent to work but also bringing work to where talents are in order to keep talents in place;
Changing the way of funding for the education, training, upskilling.
Key Recommendations based on good practices
Dual-track system as being implemented in Germany;
Blended education coupled with Artificial Intelligence;
Focusing on Group & Social learning being more effective compared to individual learning;
Transforming existing workforce via upskilling at corporate level (e.g. turning engineers into data scientists and acting as change agents for roll-out: AIRBUS);
Driving digital transformation at the regional level via public funding to convince industry for DT (i.e. Grand-Est Region: ‘Industry of the Future’ Initiative);
Turning cybersecurity challenges into opportunities (Competency Centre for Cybersecurity - C3 in LU);
Talent retention by giving more autonomy, respect and purpose to the passionate ones being hired (NEXUS).
References
DOC: Download EU 2030 High-Tech T-shaped Skills Vision Background Document
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