Skills of the Future

What are the skills the future needs and how do we ensure we are able to build these? As trends such as globalisation and advances in artificial intelligence change both the demands of the labour market, and the skills that are required for workers to succeed, people need to rely even more on their relational skills, reflexivity, creativity, and the ability to “learn to learn” throughout their life. The OECD Learning Compass 2030 distinguishes between three different types of skills:

• cognitive and meta-cognitive skills, which include critical thinking, creative thinking, learning-to-learn and self-regulation
• social and emotional skills, which include empathy, self-efficacy, responsibility and collaboration
• practical and physical skills, which include using new information and communication technology devices

In order to build the skills of the future, match aspirations with opportunities, address skills shortages, attract, develop and retain talent large multistakeholder collaborations are needed. Using an intercultural lens to think about education and the skills of the future means that one part of the action is focused on achieving equality by combatting discriminations to improve access to quality education for all, while another part of the action is aimed at harnessing the diversity advantage and recognising the contribution of diverse populations and individuals to a territory. The Transfer Cluster “Skills of the Future” is an invitation to a dialogue between a variety of sectors that all contribute to developing the skills required in the future as much as the skills required to create a desirable future.

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