Mauro Nicastri: it is necessary to continue investing, the European Year of Skills is a great opportunity
Digital skills at school - between new study methods and new approaches to training - at the center of the final conference of the Re-Educo project, underway in Valencia. The project dedicated to digital skills, promoted by the European Union and funded under the Erasmus+ programme, has involved over two thousand students from Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Finland in the last three years.
A learning path, but also one of sharing and exchanging good practices for the promotion of digital culture at school, which goes beyond the knowledge of technological tools and implies their conscious use. Starting from in-depth training of school staff and students on the potential and risks of digital technologies, the elements were provided for integrating new technologies into study and training programmes.
"The Re-Educo project, of which Aidr (Italian digital revolution association) is a partner for Italy - underlined the president Mauro Nicastri, present in Valencia together with Roberto Vescio, account manager of AIDR - focused on the role of digital culture in the student training process, supporting them in their studies in view of the skills required by the job market. For this purpose, in fact, a study was conducted within the project which still revealed a strong misalignment between labor supply and demand. The results of the surveys will help to provide a picture of the state of knowledge for educational policies in the coming years. Strengthened by this important cultural baggage acquired - concludes Nicastri - we will continue with actions aimed at promoting digital culture, which Europe looks very closely, so much so that it has proclaimed 2023 as the European Year of Skills. Italy was the first country in Europe to have started projects in this direction”.