This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the AI-related skills and roles needed to bridge the AI skills gap in Europe. Using a mixed-method research approach, this study investigated the most in-demand AI expertise areas and roles by surveying 409 organizations in Europe, analyzing 2,563 AI-related job advertisements, and conducting 24 focus group sessions with 145 industry and policy experts. The findings underscore the importance of both general technical skills in AI related to big data, machine learning and deep learning, cyber and data security, large language models as well as AI soft skills such as problemsolving and effective communication. This study sets the foundation for future research directions, emphasizing the importance of upskilling initiatives and the evolving nature of AI skills demand, contributing to an EU-wide strategy for future AI skills development.
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12/31/2023Worldwide, schools implement social-emotional learning programs to enhance students' social-emotional skills. Although parents play an essential role in teaching these skills, knowledge about their perspectives on social-emotional learning is limited. In providing insight into the perspectives of parents from adolescent students this paper adds to this knowledge. An explorative qualitative study was conducted to gain insight into parents' perspectives on adolescent social-emotional learning. A broadly used professional framework for social emotional learning was used as a frame of reference in interviews with parents from diverse backgrounds. Within and across case analyses were applied to analyze the interviews. A conceptual model of four social-emotional skills constructs considered crucial learning by parents emerged from the data: respectful behavior, cooperation, self-knowledge and self-reliance. Parents' language, interpretations and orderings of skills indicate that the model underlying these constructs differs from skills embedded in the professional framework.
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02/25/2024Information about a research study on how data science and artificial intelligence can contribute to modern education aimed at identifying and developing talents of students. Het verslag is gepubliceerd onder de titel: Future skills of journalists and artificial intelligence in education
Teachers have a crucial role in bringing about the extensive social changes that are needed in the building of a sustainable future. In the EduSTA project, we focus on sustainability competences of teachers. We strengthen the European dimension of teacher education via Digital Open Badges as means of performing, acknowledging, documenting, and transferring the competencies as micro-credentials. EduSTA starts by mapping the contextual possibilities and restrictions for transformative learning on sustainability and by operationalising skills. The development of competence-based learning modules and open digital badge-driven pathways will proceed hand in hand and will be realised as learning modules in the partnering Higher Education Institutes and badge applications open for all teachers in Europe.Societal Issue: Teachers’ capabilities to act as active facilitators of change in the ecological transition and to educate citizens and workforce to meet the future challenges is key to a profound transformation in the green transition.Teachers’ sustainability competences have been researched widely, but a gap remains between research and the teachers’ practise. There is a need to operationalise sustainability competences: to describe direct links with everyday tasks, such as curriculum development, pedagogical design, and assessment. This need calls for an urgent operationalisation of educators’ sustainability competences – to support the goals with sustainability actions and to transfer this understanding to their students.Benefit to society: EduSTA builds a community, “Academy of Educators for Sustainable Future”, and creates open digital badge-driven learning pathways for teachers’ sustainability competences supported by multimodal learning modules. The aim is to achieve close cooperation with training schools to actively engage in-service teachers.Our consortium is a catalyst for leading and empowering profound change in the present and for the future to educate teachers ready to meet the challenges and act as active change agents for sustainable future. Emphasizing teachers’ essential role as a part of the green transition also adds to the attractiveness of teachers’ work.
In recent years, ArtEZ has worked on a broadly supported strategic research agenda on the themes New Ecologies of Matter (ecological challenges), Social Equity (social-societal issues), (Un)Learning Practices (educational innovations) and (Non)CybernEtic Fabric (technological developments). Building on these strategic themes, the ArtEZ Research Collective as developed an international research strategy to become a valuable partner in the relevant Horizon Europe (HEU) areas of Environment, Industry and Social science and humanities. With its specific knowledge position and approach from arts and creativity, ArtEZ is convinced that it can play a distinctive role in European consortia to tackle various challenges in these areas, in particular from the perspective and research topics of the professorships Fashion and Tactical Design. To achieve its ambitions and goals in its targeted research topics, ArtEZ is convinced that a combination of international connections and local applications is key for successful impact. Building upon existing relations and extending the international research position requires extra efforts, e.g., by developing a strong international framework of state-of-the-art research results, impacts and ambitions. Therefore ArtEZ needs to (further) build on both its international network and its supportive infrastructure. With this proposal ArtEZ is presenting its goals and efforts to work on its international recognition as a valuable research partner, and to broaden its international network in cutting-edge research and other stakeholders. With regards to its supporting infrastructure, ArtEZ has the ambition to expand the impact of the Subsidy Desk to become a professional partner to the professorships. This approach requires a further professionalization and extension of both the Subsidy Desk organization and its services, and developing and complementing skills, expertise and competences to comply to the European requirements.
In dit project wordt onderzoek gedaan naar de 21st century skills van de social media architect. Dat is een aansprekend nieuw beroep, dat cross-overs kent tussen onder meer communicatie en IT & Design. De beschrijvingen van de 21st century skills worden op beeldende wijze gekoppeld aan reële beroepshandelingen en beroepsproducten. Voor het voortgezet onderwijs is dit van belang om een concreet en actueel beeld te kunnen laten zien van een dergelijk nieuw beroep omdat hun leerlingen een keuze moeten maken voor vervolgonderwijs. Bovendien willen zij graag onderzoeken hoe zij hun leerlingen kunnen voorbereiden op dit nieuwe beroep. Voor bedrijven die nieuwe medewerkers willen aantrekken is het eveneens zaak om zicht te krijgen op de profielen en de bijbehorende 21st century skills. Ons onderwijssysteem kent geen gebaande paden of geijkte toeleveranciers voor nieuwe beroepen waardoor ze lastig het juiste personeel kunnen vinden. In dit project: ‘Beroepen in Transitie: het belang van het laten zien van cross-overs in de techniek’ worden de 21st century skills beschreven in de context waarin de social media architect opereert, en de verschillende rollen waarin hij/zij aan het werk kan zijn. Dit onderzoek beoogt een realistisch beroepsbeeld neer te zetten door de 21st century skills te koppelen aan actuele beroepshandelingen en -producten om potentieel geïnteresseerde scholieren, studenten en professionals daar zo goed mogelijk op voor te bereiden en een gefundeerde keuze te bevorderen. Daarmee kunnen we beter aan de groeiende vraag naar technische professionals voldoen, die daarvoor ook passende talenten hebben. Bovendien is dit project een voorbeeld van hoe bedrijven met het onderwijs samen kunnen komen tot een vernieuwing van functieprofielen en toekomstbestendig opleiden ten behoeve van de veranderende arbeidsmarkt. Het is tevens een voorbeeld voor andere beroepen, vandaar de parallelle aanvraag Zorg (ook De Haagse Hogeschool en Inholland).
