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Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. March 16, 2005. Technical personnel in agricultural machinery maintenance in the ethanol refinery.
Educating Young People for the Jobs of the Future (March 19, 2015)
Credit: Salzburg Global Seminar/Ela Grieshaber
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The Challenge
Salzburg Global Seminar (www.salzburgglobal.org) was founded by young people in 1947 to challenge present and future leaders to solve issues of global concern. Nearly 70 years later, a top priority facing societies in and beyond Europe concerns youth and their economic prospects. Statistics on the true cost of youth unemployment for the global community are hard to come by but one thing is clear. For societies and individuals to prosper and flourish, systems innovations will be needed to equip all young people with the knowledge, skills and opportunities to achieve their potential and perform the jobs of the future.
Strategies for Today:
Austria and Germany have long-standing dual systems of vocational education and worker training and enviably low levels of youth unemployment. In today’s global knowledge economy, is this a strategic asset that can be exported – especially to parts of the world with high unemployment and gaps in the skilled labor market? Could such systems be further improved and what would this mean for public-private sector cooperation? Do vocational educational tracks meet rising employer demands for flexibility and critical thinking?
Needs for Tomorrow:
As digitalization, robotics and artificial intelligence transform the job landscape, the future of work and the role of education will come under increasing scrutiny. With figures such as Google CEO Eric Schmidt calling for “permissionless innovation” and a “culture of creativity”, what practical approaches could boost human capital development across all sectors of society? Will future educational systems need to ‘relearn learning’ and transform teaching? Will the distinction between ‘academic’ and ‘vocational’ become outdated as part of these complex changes? What partnerships between government, research, business and technology could pave the way for tomorrow’s citizens to function in and contribute to radically different economies?
Views from the Inside:
Three speakers on a moderated panel will bring contrasting international perspectives to these critical questions, followed by a debate with invited high-level guests. Panelists:
Mag. Bernhard Reisner, Vice-President for Human Capital, MIBA AG, Laakirchen, Austria
Dr.Friederike Sözen, Director of Entrepreneurial Education, Austrian Federal Chamber of Commerce (WKO)
Dr. Walter Emberger, CEO Teach for Austria
Envisaged outcomes:
Insights and recommendations from the Vienna debate will help to inform Salzburg Global Seminar’s ongoing strategic programs on education, innovation and economic and social sustainability, building on expertise within Austria. We are currently seeking to develop a multi-year intervention with partners from autumn 2015, provisionally entitled Generation Next: Pathways into Work. This will build on Salzburg Global’s earlier three-year series on Optimizing Talent: Closing Educational and Social Mobility Gaps and its complementary programs on emerging challenges for the global economy and social and regional cohesion.
A Vietnamese worker. © ILO
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A Vietnamese worker. © ILO
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AFGE's Women's and Fair Practices Departments host its 2nd Annual YOUNG Summit. This weekend of training focuses on energizing young workers in the labor movement.
Women workers sanding down furniture. Jepara, Central Java, Indonesia, June, 2009.
Photo by Murdani Usman/CIFOR
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The Color Guard presents the Colors at the start of the TWU 24th Constitutional Convention, on September 23, 2013.
Please stand up for the your rights as an artist and art worker. The culture industry needs you. Demand equality, payment, and respect from non-profits, museums, curators, schools, and especially commercial galleries. They don't control the industry WE DO!!!
Dock workers relaxing on precarious metal pipe piles in a harbour yard. Shipping boats and machines behind them, the city of Valparaiso in background. Faces of workers indistinguishable
Day 2 - August 9 - 3.24pm
Meanwhile, over in Chaoyang District, some construction workers are wondering what to do next now that all of the building sites have closed down for the Olympics, and a certain photographer is concluding that he is unable to go two weeks without photographing the CCTV tower.
Designer unknown (佚名)
Early 1970s
When everybody conserves energy, production can increase greatly
Renren lai jie dian, shengchan da fazhan (人人来节电，生产大发展)
Call nr.: BG D25/276 (Landsberger collection)
More? See: chineseposters.net
the land around us this year is being rented by a local product farmer , this yrs crop is peppers
I have never seen such a group of hard working migrant workers , keep up the good work
Not strictly a Finsec event, but here's a few photos of the Service and Food Workers' Union Nga Ringa Tota rally in Wellington on International Cleaners Day.
The 'Fair Deal for Cleaners' campaign that this rally is part of aims to provide a voice to the low-waged largely immigrant female workforce, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, who are calling on big property owners to support decency in their workplaces.