Global Education Futures
Forum – Kazan
Futures Skills International Forum – Kazan
22-23 MAY, 2015
In association with WorldSkills Russia National Competition in Kazan
2015, 19-24, May 2015
Friday, 22 May 2015:
Skills for Industrial, Economic and Social Development
11.00 – 11.05
Plenary Hall (Red hall),
Welcoming speech by Rustam Minnikhanov, President of
the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation
2nd level
11.05 – 11.10
Plenary Hall (Red hall),
2nd level
Welcoming speech by Natalia Zolotareva, Director of TVET
and Complimentary Professional Education Department,
Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation
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11.10 – 11.15
Plenary Hall (Red hall),
Welcoming speech by Pavel Chernykh, President of
WorldSkills Russia
2nd level
11.15-11.20
Plenary Hall (Red hall),
2nd level
Welcoming speech by Pavel Luksha, Director of Global
Education Futures, Professor of Practice at Skolkovo Moscow
School of Management, Co-founder of Re-Engineering
Futures, Russia Representative in BRICS Skills Development
Working Group
11:20 – 13:00
Plenary Session: Skills for Economic Development
Plenary Session Hall,
Welcome notes from organizers
second floor
Session Chair: Pavel Luksha, Director of Global Education
Futures
Global changes and new quality of economic development resulting from
high labor productivity, technological innovations, greening of business
practices, and spread of information & communication technologies, lead
to greater demand for new professional skills. These skills assume ability
to work with advanced technologies in new industrial environments.
Following the changes in demand, technical & vocational education &
training around the world is undergoing massive reorganization.
WorldSkills International movement is one of the most influential
international institutions, helping to increase the prestige of skilled labor
and the development of professional education. Due to rise of new global
challenges, the agenda of WorldSkills now includes the creation of
conditions for economic growth by promoting skills of the future.
The goal of the panel session is to understand the global agenda for the
development of skill sets that leads to new quality of economic growth
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and social development.
Simon Bartley, President of WorldSkills International
Dr Ji Oh Song, Executive Vice-President of Samsung
Anastasia Fetsi, Head of the Operations Department,
European Training Foundation
San-Quei Lin, Chairperson of Institute of Labor,
Occupational safety and Health, Ministry of Labor, Chinese
Taipei
Dr Raymond Patel, Chief Executive Officer of
Manufacturing Engineering and Related Services SETA
(MERSETA), South Africa
Tim Lawrence, Executive Director, SkillsUSA
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 14.30
Introduction to participatory group work: structure and topics
General Discussion Hall
Session Chair: Pavel Luksha, Director of Global Education
(Blue Hall), first floor
Futures
Part 1. Group work session. Vision of the future.
14.30 – 16.30
Collaborative & Group
Work Rooms, second
floor
Rapid Foresight of key trends / technologies that
shape new skills demand.
Topics for the working groups:
Automation and digitalization
Human-focused services
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Education
Global Agenda
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee break
Part 2. Group work session. Future skills demanded
due to technological & social transformation.
17.00 – 18.30
Topics for the working groups:
Collaborative & Group
Automation and digitalization
Work Rooms, second
floor
Human-focused services
Education
Global Agenda
18.30 – 19.30
Sharing the first day group work results
General Discussion Hall
Session Chair: Pavel Luksha, Director of Global Education
(Blue Hall), first floor
Futures
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Saturday 23 May 2015:
Transforming Education for 21st century Needs
12.00 – 13.00
Plenary Session
General Discussion
New Solutions for Education and Training
Hall (Blue Hall), first
floor
Skills and Economic Growth: global challenges and solutions
Amit Dar, Director of the World Bank Education Global Practice
Transformation of education & training systems due to accelerated
division of labor. Petr Schedrovitsky, President of the G.P.
Schedrovitsky Institute for Development, member of the Board of
Directors of the Center for Strategic Research ‘North-West’
Trends shaping the future of global education & training models.
Pavel Luksha, Director of Global Education Futures
13.00 – 14.00
14.00 – 14.10
General Discussion
Hall (Blue Hall), first
floor
Lunch
Introduction to group work: structure and topics
Session Chair: Pavel Luksha, Director of Global Education
Futures
14.10 – 15.00
Part 3. New Solutions for Education and Training
Collaborative &
Topics for the working groups:
Group Work Rooms,
second floor
Automation and digitalization
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Human-focused services
Education
Global Agenda
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee break
15.30 – 16.30
Part 4. Projects for WorldSkills Movement
Collaborative &
Topics for the working groups:
Group Work Rooms,
second floor
Automation and digitalization
Human-focused services
Education
Global Agenda
16.30 - 17.30
Concluding session. Sharing the group work results
General Discussion
Moderator: Pavel Luksha, Director of Global Education Futures
Hall (Blue Hall), first
floor
Description of Working Groups
Thematic groups will allow attendees to have focused discussion on changes in specific
domains of the economy, future demand for skills, and transformation that will be required
in education & training systems to accommodate to such demand.
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The main issues to be addressed in the discussion are:
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What processes of technological and social change will have the greatest impact on
the labor market?
How will processes in the industrial and service sectors change? What new knowledge
and skills will be required? What skills would become obsolete?
What new forms & methods in technical & vocational training will be introduced to
match the demand for new skills?
Group 1. Automation and digitalization
This groups will discuss changes in economy and society due to automation of processes in
industrial manufacturing and the digitalization of society (emergence of digital world). The
impact of new manufacturing technologies will be considered, including industrial robotics,
new materials, 3D-printing, biotechnologies, artificial intelligence, etc.
Some of the questions for discussion may include:
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Scenarios for the development of future manufacturing systems, including the
transition to cyber-physical systems (Industry 4.0) and/or highly localized
manufacturing (‘roadless economy’ based on 3D-printing, local energy generation
& smart grids, and unmanned transportation).
Manufacturing of virtual items: developing and serving digital worlds.
Infrastructure supporting future industrial systems: how will transport, energy,
communications and financial sectors of the future look like?
The role of artificial intelligence in digital manufacturing, including: coordination of
industrial production & logistics, development of new products, etc.
Possible roles of human workers in future industrial environments: from ‘button
pushers’ to highly competent ‘supervisors of technology’. Will managers still exist
in the future and what role will they play?
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Group 2. Human-focused services
It is widely debated that wide-spread application of industrial & home robotics will push
people out of many traditional industrial occupations, leading to the creation of many new
jobs in the service sector, where people will provide services to people. This group will focus
on sectors where humans can be more efficient than robots or artificial intelligence in the
long term, providing services that satisfy needs of individuals, families and the society.
Trends for traditional and new services with a high degree of creativity, emotional contact,
human-to-human interaction etc. will be discussed.
Some of the questions for discussion may include:
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Which service sectors will be most vulnerable to application of robotics & artificial
intelligence? Which industries are most prone?
Which human-focused service industries will grow more actively, and why? What new
services could potentially appear? What consumer demands would they be able
meet?
Which services will support the industrial sector (e.g. marketing & sales, product
development & design, finance & management), and which ones will be completely
independent (e.g. personal dieting or fitness)? How will existing and new services
change under the influence of ICT?
Does creativity become a necessary component for any human-focused services in
the future, or it is only required for some types of services?
What will be the dominant economic model for provision of human-focused services:
e.g. independent professionals (as notaries or osteopaths), professional associations /
networks (as engineering communities of practices or medieval guilds), or service
companies (as consultancy companies)? What managerial skills will be necessary in
each of these formats?
Group 3. Education
This group will consider the transformation of professional education systems driven by
globalization, spread of ICT and changes in economic organization. New educational
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models that can support skills acquisition from the life long learning perspective will be
discussed.
Some of the questions for discussion may include:
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How should the education system change in order to effectively provide individual
workers with the ‘skills of the future’? What skills should be primarily included in the
curriculum and why?
How will ICT change educational processes, including the transfer of knowledge & skills
and the assessment / evaluation process? What new forms of training can arise within
blended and online learning?
How can systems of professional life-long learning be organized? How should learning
and career trajectories be designed? How can they be personalized and how should they
be managed?
What new financial & investment mechanisms can be created around personalized
learning & career trajectories? What is the condition for emergence and spreading of
direct talent investments mechanisms?
What skills should educators have to create & support personalized life-long learning and
other future models of education?
Group 4. Global economic agenda
This group will consider various challenges of the transforming global economy, including
organization & maintenance of global supply / value chains, and governance of global
social, geopolitical and environmental processes. Some of the questions for discussion may
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What are the main trends shaping the future of global markets, and how* will they
influence the organization of global value creation processes, including
manufacturing, logistics, marketing and sales? How will global quality standards be
established, and how will ethical dimensions of value creation (e.g. fair trade) be
maintained?
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How will information & communication technologies (incl. Internet of things) continue
to impact the organization of global value chains?
Global security and global financial stability: how will they be preserved? What will be
general skills required of all economic actors to maintain security & stability (as well as
specialist skills that will be required)?
The ‘green agenda’: its continuing influence on manufacturing of goods and provision
of services, as well as on requirements for ‘green’ working spaces. Will environmental
regulations become tougher over time, and in what respects – and how will these
regulations be enforced in the global marketplace? What will be the future
approaches in industrial organization in reponse to these regulations (e.g., the ‘zero
waste’ model)?
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