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Conference on Education, Skills, and Worker Retraining
We are pleased to announce the 1st PILLARS Conference on Education, Skills, and Worker Retraining, jointly organized by the ifo Institute, Munich and the Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. T
Please note that due to the current Covid situation the conference will run in an online format and the dates have been changed to Thursday 17 and Friday 18 February 2022.
Spotlight: Promoting Young Scholars Christina Langer
One of the things PILLARS takes pride in is in promoting young talent. This month the spotlight is on Christina Langer, a scholar at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Fast-Five with PILLARS Coordinator Oliver Falck
PILLARS coordinator, Oliver Falck, explains what prompted the creation of yet another labour market think-tank.
Given the many think-tanks and research organisations devoted to labour, why Pillars? What is the rationale behind its creation?
Video Introduction of PILLARS
The main objective of the Horizon2020 project PILLARS is to provide policy makers and the public with information about what kind of (new) skills will be in demand and how to revise education and training systems to create the opportunities to acquire them. See Prof Oliver Falck and Prof Maria Savona explain how we are doing that in this introduction video.
Join the Expert Group on Future Technologies, Skills and Inclusive Labour Markets of the PILLARS project!
What is the Expert Group on Future Technologies, Skills and Inclusive Labour Markets? It is YOUR opportunity to engage with key policy makers in the government, academia, industry and civil society sectors, as well as, with the PILLARS project team to support the development of inclusive and evidence-based labour market policies.
Where PILLARS comes in...
Technological progress is influencing the way we live and work. Labour markets will adapt and demand new skills. New jobs will evolve, while others are likely to disappear. Three main factors have dominated European labour markets in recent decades and are likely to continue to influence them in the future: technological change, international trade and industrial transformation. However, it is not yet clear how exactly such advances will transform our labour markets. This is where PILLARS comes in. The first phase of the project is centred around taking stock.
PILLARS Kick-off meeting!
And we have started! On the 1st and 2nd of February 2021 all PILLARS project partners met online to officially start this three-year Horizon2020 project. After a few welcoming words of Oliver Falck (ifo Institute), Kerstin Wilde (EU REA) started the day with a short presentation.
