This case study focuses on a project conducted in HEIs to introduce future literacy and foresight thinking to students. It involved interactive workshops and activities to help students understand future uncertainties and develop skills for navigating them.
21st-century students live in an interconnected, diverse and rapidly changing world. Emerging economic, digital, cultural, demographic and environmental forces are shaping young people’s lives around the planet and increasing their intercultural encounters on a daily basis. Developing a global and intercultural outlook is a process that education can shape.
The University of Pittsburg created a virtual series to educate their staff and students and to help them gain the tools to be more aware, mindful, and culturally humble with the communities that surround them.
Emotional and Social Intelligence is defined as a set of competencies demonstrating the ability one has to recognize behaviours, moods, and impulses, and to manage them best according to the situation. This course presents the tools to be emotionally and socially intelligent in the workplace.
After completing the community service program, students see themselves as more socially responsible citizens. This qualitative study aims to explore the impact of community service learning on the social skills of students.
The LifeComp framework regards “Personal, Social and Learning to Learn” as a set of competencies applying to all spheres of life that can be acquired through formal informal and non-formal education, and can help citizens to thrive in the 21st Century. LifeComp can be used as a basis for the development of curricula and learning activities fostering personal, and social development, and learning to learn.
This guide is a tool for those individuals and organisations who wish to explore why, when and how they can use EntreComp, the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework. The entrepreneurial competence is increasingly recognised as a competence for life, relevant to personal development and fulfilment, finding and progressing in employment, as well as initiating new ventures. This guide is intended to inspire more actors to get involved and join a community of participants committed to embedding these competencies for life into education, communities, work and enterprise.
The 21st century skills are extremely important in the labour market and STEM graduates’ skills are highly valued. Employers from 29 countries participated in assessing the key employability skills of STEM graduates as needed in the 21st-century labour market. It is essential to identify the skills demanded in the labour market and consider them in the higher education development strategies to ensure the highest possible labour market outcomes for higher education graduates.
Human resources are one of the key elements for the success of an IT project since their qualification and knowledge of hard skills and soft skills and an effective identification of these in the demands of each role or position are essential for the success of the project. This work presents a new approach that exploits existing reference models such as ESCO, eCF and NCSF (NCS Framework) as a basis for analyzing large datasets offered by existing labour analysis tools, such as the ESCO database with thousands of relationships between occupations and soft skills and the Ovate tool with millions of online job ads.
