The European Union commemorates 2023 as the European Year of Skills. The European Year of Skills 2023 aims to give a fresh impetus to lifelong learning, empowering people and companies to contribute to the green and digital transitions, supporting innovation and competitiveness. The European Year of Skills puts skills centre-stage. Helping people get the right skills for quality jobs and helping companies, in particular small and medium enterprises, address skills shortages in the EU is what this Year is all about.
Experts from the sector and MEPs participated in the Forum organised by Grupo Prestomedia through its media Aquí Europa and Canal Europa, with the collaboration of the Rey Juan Carlos University and Finnova. This Forum is the starting point for the celebration, next October, of the 1st International Talent Congress. European Year of Skills Festival.
The Forum was attended by Mª Luisa Humanes, Vice-Rector for International Relations of the URJC the URJC; the MEPs Alicia Homs, Vice-Chairwoman of the EP Committee on Employment and Social Affairs Social Affairs Committee, from the Group of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats; and Rosa Estarás, members of the Employment and Social Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, from the Group of the European People’s Party; and for Finnova from Finnova, Patricia Tejada, responsible for the area of vocational vocational training, Erasmus+ and training and youth, and Pablo Barrios, member of the training and youth, and Pablo Barrios responsible for the area of projects in the fields of cultural of cultural industries.
Mª Luisa Humanes, Vice-Rector for International Relations of the URJC, has International Relations of the URJC, contributed the university and academic point of view, and explained explained that this is a “double challenge” for universities. universities. “Thinking in terms of competences forces us to be more flexible and to create an educational training proposal that is not exclusive to the academic academic sphere, and to transform how education is how education is conceived“.
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