Social Agenda Magazine | Number 53 (November 2018)

The future of work

Summary:

A wealth of evidence has been collected and analysed by the European Commission, to identify the trends that are shaping the future: that of the world of work; and that of the vocational education and training systems in the EU Member States.

This issue of Social Agenda is based on two sources. One is the 2018 edition of the Economic and Social Developments review, which came out in July 2018. It focuses on the impact of technological transformation on the employment and social situation.

The other is the concluding conference of a three-year project on the changing nature and role, since 1995, of vocational education and training in the EU plus Iceland and Norway, carried out by Cedefop (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training). This conference took place in November 2018 during the central EU-level event of the European Vocational Skills Week.

Contents:

• Youth employment: Promising reach-out practices
• Long-term unemployment: Preventing entrenched unemployment
• Vocational education and training: European Week looks beyond 2020
• Special feature: The future of work - empowering people
• Special feature: Overcoming social inequalities
• Special feature: Tackling outcome inequalities
• Special feature: Effective social protection for all
• Special feature: Social dialogue beyond the comfort zone
• EU funding beneficiary: Magda - a care leaver now in a management position
• Other voices: Philippe Pochet, General Director of ETUC - Digital revolution but also climate change

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