Future Skills & Work-life - nordicengineers

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Prioritising Lifelong Learning

We believe that everyone should have the right to continuing professional development to maintain and acquire skills to remain employable and manage transitions in the future labour market. This is particularly important because of the increasing deficit of ICT and engineering professionals in the Nordic region. Our objective is to promote lifelong learning opportunities in the Nordics as an investment in nurturing STEM professionals’ potential.

Ensuring adequate lifelong learning provisions requires a change of mindset, adjustments in the institutional management process, political and financial support, strategic partnerships, and ensuring that these changes benefit the individual learners. The lifelong learning complexity can only be solved in partnership.

ANE is committed to playing a central role in this partnership!

Publications

Sustainable Limitless Work – Challenges, Opportunities and Future Scenarios

Work-life has changed, and engineers equipped with smartphones and computers can work practically anywhere and at any time. But how limitless can managers and employees be while maintaining health and wellbeing?

This report outlines a direction of travel with recommendations on how limitless work through regulation can address the risk of negative impacts, become more sustainable, and build on the positive opportunities that limitless work also offers.

Competences for a Sustainable Future

Across the Nordics, governments have ambitious plans to address climate change through a green and digital transition of society. And many Nordic businesses regard this development as an opportunity to become international frontrunners in developing valuable climate and energy technology. Engineers and STEM professionals with the right skills are crucial in this transition.

Continuing Professional
Development

Continuing Professional Development, CPD during the career path is not a luxury invention. Everyone should have the right to a sound educational background and CPD to maintain and acquire skills to remain in employment and manage the transitions in the labour market. Although the Nordic region scores high in terms of innovation and new technology, the talent shortage is becoming a sad reality.

Read the full report here (pdf)

Read the recommendations here (pdf)

Past Events

Digital conference 01.10.20

Ensuring relevant lifelong learning provision is a hard nut to crack, but now more than ever, it is seen as the key to adapt to restructuring and changing our societies. In a joint effort with the Nordic network of technical universities, Danish IT Society and the Danish Business Academy, ANE organises a conference to form the recommendations on the Nordic Region’s attempts in closing digital skills gaps thanks to the lifelong learning provision.

Read the report and recommendations

Partner at the #EUvsVirus hackaton

ANE has joined the hackathon organised by the European Commission as a supporting partner to show its solidarity in times of big crises and to support the winning team in the selected challenge of remote working and education. The award was given to the project Mentor.me, which aims at connecting primary and secondary students with volunteer mentors through a mobile app to facilitate the knowledge transfer.

Listen to a podcast with the winners

Diversity & Equality

Any work that ANE undertakes will always consider the impact on equality, diversity, and sustainability. We have a special focus on creating better conditions for women and young people to succeed in STEM careers.

Equal pay and opportunities in the workplace are key for the transition to sustainable societies.