EU looking to a future of open and agile Smart Cities! If we try to link together two simple words: “smart” and “connections”, we would be surprised by the amazing pattern we can build. As a matter of fact, the European Union has discovered this beautiful interaction, for instance, with …
Europe Moving away from “Grexit” In 2008-2013, Greece suffered an extraordinary economic decline and for a while, the idea of exit from the Eurozone gained ascendancy, then it receded without going away completely. Eclipsed last year by the UK’s vote to exit the EU, and Donald Trump’s US electoral victory, the nation’s struggle to …
GCED – Transforming Education for an Interconnected 21st Century! Global Citizenship Education (GCED) is one of the strategic areas of UNESCO’s Education Sector programme for the period 2014-2021. According to the official definition given by the UN, the primary aim of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) is nurturing respect for all, building …
The first test for the European Union was a real success. However, when we had only few states in the economic alliance, we could not talk about European Union, but just of European Economic Community (EEC): a regional organization which aimed to bring economic integration among its 6 founding members. At that time, after …
An European perspective on Global Education The great challenges that humanity is currently facing require that individuals own global competences, and that they contribute with knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to fostering a more sustainable and inclusive world. As a consequence, education systems are increasingly asked to prepare children and students to understand global issues, as well …
Italian election’s challenge to the European Union On the 4th of March 2018 new elections are going to take place in Italy. This will be one of the most important political events for the European Union this year. As the EU tries to regain cohesion after the shock of the UK’s Brexit …
Apprenticeship for young people: the Italian dual system works! After an initial phase, the Italian Government is funding 80 million Euros with the Budget Law for 2018 (Law 205/2017), plus an additional 50 million Euros for the current year alone, for improving the dual system. An important resource not only for young people, but only …
Apprenticeship for young people in BENELUX: a brief case study The two work-based learning systems in Belgium are directed to young people. They are open to who is over the age of 15 as part of their compulsory education, young people over 18, self-employed workers and jobseekers with no age …
The global financial crisis that started in 2008 created considerable stress in the euro area. The common shock produced different problems in each euro-area country. National problems and solutions took centre-stage in national discourses leaving systemic euro-area issues largely unmentioned. A common economic narrative on the risks faced by the …
In a time where demand for specific skills is growing and meanwhile, “generic” skills are losing attractiveness for the labor market, which are the possibilities that government or other actors could implement to give more occasions for improving high specific qualities which are more and more useful on our currently …
