Skills & Competences

No matter how much we know, there’s always something new to learn!

Prioritising Lifelong Learning

Everyone should have the right to continuing professional development to maintain and acquire skills to remain in employment and manage the transition in the labour market. Many research findings and policy guidelines point to the need to close the digital skills shortage. What is missing is the application in practice and understanding of the value of continuing professional development.
Our objective is to raise awareness of lifelong learning opportunities as an investment in nurturing STEM professionals’ potential. This 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!

Past projects

As part of our ongoing commitment to create networks between STEM professionals, businesses, and academia we became a partner in the NordEnHub project which ran from 2018-2022

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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

Publications

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
Read the recommendations here

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.

Read the more about the report here

Pact of skills

ANE is part of the EU Pact of skills. The key principles of the charter ANE has subscribed to are: promoting a culture of lifelong learning for all; building strong skills partnerships; monitoring skills supply/demand and anticipating skills needs; working against discrimination, and for gender equality and equal opportunities. ANE has joined the EU Pact of skills in partnership with the network of technical universities in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Nordtek, and the Danish IT Society.
See ANE’s response to Pact for Skills – Stakeholders’ survey.

The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition

ANE is a member of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. The coalition is a multi-stakeholder partnership involving Member States, companies, social partners, NGOs and educational establishments – to help meet the high demand for digital skills in Europe which are essential in today’s digital society and economy.
Read more about the coalition