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Can INNOVATION and EDUCATION be combined ?

Can INNOVATION and EDUCATION be combined ?. ANTONIO SILVA MENDES Director Education and Vocational Training DG Education and Culture. 28 NOVEMBER 2013. WHY SHOULD EDUCATION AND INNOVATION BE COMBINED?. Unemployment and economic crisis

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Can INNOVATION and EDUCATION be combined ?

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  1. Can INNOVATION and EDUCATION becombined? ANTONIO SILVA MENDES Director Education and Vocational Training DG Education and Culture 28 NOVEMBER 2013

  2. WHY SHOULD EDUCATION AND INNOVATION BE COMBINED? • Unemployment and economiccrisis • Skills mismatches and Adult skills survey • Education panorama changing • Budget constraints

  3. EDUCATION AND INNOVATION 2 SIDES : • Innovation in education • Innovation by education

  4. EDUCATION AND INNOVATION 2 SIDES : • Innovation in education • Innovation by education

  5. INNOVATION IN EDUCATION In teaching and learning • New models of learning • Opening up education http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/ • Not onlylearning in the classroom

  6. INNOVATION IN EDUCATION Accessibility : • Learning focused on the learner and educator • flexible, playful, other sources, • open pedagogicalpractices / Cooperation (all over the world) • Foster creativity European area of Skills & qualifications

  7. INNOVATION IN EDUCATION Equity and efficiency: • Cost effective • More access for disadvantaged groups • Providing the right skills (PIAAC) • Digital skills (90% of jobs willrequire IT)

  8. INNOVATION IN EDUCATION In teaching and learning • Supporting teachers' competences • TWG on VET trainers • More workbasedlearning EuropeanAlliance for apprenticeships

  9. INNOVATION IN EDUCATION EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR APPRENTICESHIPS • Betterskillsmatching • It allowssmoother transition fromeducation to employment

  10. INNOVATION IN EDUCATION EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR APPRENTICESHIPS • Cooperationbetween training providers and companies • Change mind-set for all : students, families, teachers, companies, • Alliance website: http://ec.europa.eu/education/apprenticeship/

  11. EDUCATION AND INNOVATION 2 SIDES : • Innovation in education • Innovation by education

  12. INNOVATION BY EDUCATION Education thatcontributes to productivity, jobs, growth • Entrepreneurship skills (for both employees and business creation) Guide for educators on entrepreneurial training • Cooperationwith the world of work • Entrepreneurship 360 for an innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem.

  13. INNOVATION BY EDUCATION • Education promotes science and research • Fuel innovation and productivity • High skills, transversal skills : economic factor

  14. 2014 EUROPEAN BUSINESS FORUM ON VET Themes Skillsneeds in growingsectors Entrepreneurial VET Apprenticeships as a path to employment Stronginvolvement of EU VET providers associations 14

  15. How can innovation and educationbecombined?Key Role of Education & training providers Transformideasinto action Knowledge of the field and local reality Engage with the world of work!!! Engage with the policymakers Takeadvantage of Erasmus+ in the future 15

  16. 3 main types of actions in Erasmus+ • Learning mobility of individuals • Staff mobility, in particular for teachers, trainers, school leaders and youth workers • Mobility for higher education student, vocationaleducation andtraining students • Master degree scheme • Mobility for higher education for EU and non-EU beneficiaries • Volunteering and youth Exchanges • Cooperation for innovationand exchange of good practices • Strategic partnerships between education/training or youth organisations and other relevant actors • Large scale partnerships between education and training establishments andbusiness: Knowledge Alliances & Sector Skills alliances • IT-Platforms includinge-Twinning • Cooperation with third countries and focus on neighbourhood countries • Support forpolicy reform • Open method of Coordination • EU tools: valorisation and implementation • Policy dialogue with stakeholders, third countriesand international Organisations

  17. Key action 2: Modernisingeducation and training throughcooperation • Strategicpartnershipsbetweeneducation institutions, youth organisations, training institutions and otheractors Focus: • Take up of innovative practices, including ICT, OER, flexible learning, virtualmobility and others • Entrepreneurship • Large-scalecoooperationbetweeneducation, training establishments and business: ‘Knowledge Alliances’ and ‘SectorSkills Alliances’

  18. Key action 3 - Modernising education through policy support Peer learning and cross-fertilization between education systems Prospective initiatives Development of EU tools to assess and recognise skills (valorisation) 18

  19. THANK YOU 19

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