School's Over: Learning Spaces in Europe in 2020: An Imagining Exercise on the Future of Learning

This report uses a rigorous imagining approach to develop an alternative way of organizing learning in Europe whereby the traditional school system no longer plays a significant role. This study shows that on the basis of phenomena already present in Europe today it is possible to invent a discontinuous model of how people learn and how what they learn is used in everyday life. At the core of this model is a carefully elaborated idea of learning spaces that encompass new ways of ensuring that people have the capacity to control, direct, share and deepen their knowledge throughout their lives. These multi-dimensional learning spaces are imagined as operating in a systemically different economic and social context. One where non-technocratic, non-hierarchical learning is central to the production of local well-being and community based identity. ¿School¿s Over¿ is meant to challenge both the functional and organizational assumptions that currently dominate, often implicitly, the choices being made today.JRC.J.4-Information Societ

Compétences, productivité et nouvelles stratégies pour la formation professionnelle régionale au Danemark

Changing market and production structures have put strategic investments in human resources and new training infrastructures on the agenda for the small and medium size enterprises, and for the training and service providers they will typically consult. With small and medium sized enterprises accounting for approximately 80% of the European GDP there is an ungoing discussion in government agencies, in training institutions, at universities, and in businesses concerning new ways and strategies that best accommodate for these changes. Realising that efforts of a structural sort are necessary to best meet those changing business conditions, this paper discusses different models and experiences with training and training networks as an integrated part of regional development. The work is based on a networking strategy and what we define as a centre-periphery knowledge transfer model. Based on the practical experiences from two quite different network cooperations in two regions in Denmark the paper gives a brief summary of some of the essential aspects of educational network design.Les mutations du marché et des structures de production ont imposé la gestion des ressources humaines comme choix d'investissement prioritaire pour les PMI/PME. Ces changements suscitent également de nouvelles demandes en direction des prestataires de formation et de services. Pour ces PMI/PME. qui représentent 80% de la production intérieure brute (PIB) européenne, une négociation est en cours entre les agences gouvernementales et les institutions de formation, qui associent aussi les universités et les partenaires économiques, sur le problème des nouvelles voies et des nouvelles stratégies qui doivent favoriser ce changement. Nous considérons que des approches de différentes natures sont nécessaires pour mieux appréhender ces changements économiques. C'est pourquoi cette communication analyse différents modèles de stratégies éducatives et leurs expérimentations. Elle définit, en particulier, un modèle de réseau en étoile pour le transfert de connaissances qui s'intègre comme un facteur décisif dans une politique de développement régional. Le travail relaté a été conduit à partir d'expériences différentes dans deux régions du Danemark. Les conclusions montrent les aspects essentiels de cette nouvelle conception de systèmes de formation.Ringsted Mette, Shapiro Hanne, Gouardères Guy. Compétences, productivité et nouvelles stratégies pour la formation professionnelle régionale au Danemark. In: Sciences et techniques éducatives, volume 1 n°2, 1994. pp. 163-174

Учебная программа по учебной дисциплине " Численное моделирование трубопрокатного производства"

Учебная программа " Численное моделирование трубопрокатного производства " кафедры "Металлургия и технологии обработки материалов" для дневной формы получения образования: общее количество часов – 80, трудоемкость учебной дисциплины – 2 з.е., форма контроля знаний – зачет

Innovations in Information Society Sectors: Implicatons for Women's Work, Expertise and Opportunities in European Workplaces : SERVEMPLOI : Final Report of project SOE1-CT98-1119

The overall objective of project SERVEMPLOI was to examine, in the context of considerable technological and organisational innovations and uphe avals, the prospects for women working in low-grade service jobs to develop skills and knowledges which would allow them to move out of low-grade work and into better work, or ‘good work’. A literature survey and a contextual analysis of retailing and fin ancial services sectors was undertaken. Fieldwork was conducted in eight countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Case studies of workplaces in the two sectors were carried out. In addition, qualitative panel studie s followed the employment trajectories of female employees in the two sectors through the duration of the project. Women working in junior positions in these two service sectors are experiencing significant organisational and technological changes. Both sectors are becoming more highly concentrated in ownership terms, and competition is becoming fiercer between companies. Deregulation at member state and European level has had a major effect on the market and consequently on the strategic behaviour of co mpanies in both sectors. There has been an overall trend towards increasing commercialisation, de -bureaucratisation, and an intensive struggle for market share through increases in opening and operating hours. Customer service has become the watchword of their competitive strategies. The development and application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) has been done in pursuit of these objectives. Company - and supply-chain-wide information systems allow companies to maintain logistical c ontrol and reach into new markets. Customer information and customer relationship management systems are now key tools in the capture of markets and the delivery of customer service. Although knowledge and information, particularly concerning markets and customers, are assuming increasing importance in retail and financial services companies, these resources and their attendant benefits are not filtering down to women working in junior positions in the two sectors. At the level of workplaces in which wom en perform the routine functions of selling, checkout work, clerical and cashiering work, skill development is more concerned with providing customer service than with fostering substantive knowledge or encouraging the use of SERVEMPLOI final report information. Training opportu nities and progression prospects for women to move out of these jobs are variable, and highly contingent upon national training régimes and local company practices. Lengthening and unpredictable working hours also act as a major obstacle to women’s progression. Where women do enter managerial positions, this coincides with a removal of authority from these jobs. Our conclusion is the Knowledge Economy has not strongly benefited these women, nor are they able to harness its potential for their own develop ment. The potential of many women is being wasted