On the twenty third and twenty fourth of final yr, Valencia held the worldwide seminar “The Challenges and Alternatives within the work situations of the twenty first century”.
The organisation CEAT (Centro Español para los Asuntos de los Trabajadores) introduced collectively completely different European organisations belonging to EZA (Europäisches Zentrum Für Arbeitnehmerfragen), which brings collectively greater than 70 organisations from throughout Europe, to debate and put ahead proposals on the transformation of workplaces and the digital financial system. Quite a lot of actors representing political events, commerce unions, universities and completely different international locations of the European Union participated.
The principle matters of the talk targeted on expertise as a component of change, the incorporation of Synthetic Intelligence to take care of and enhance the welfare society and the dangers that we additionally assume when it comes to the shortage of privateness and safety in digital environments. The dialog additionally targeted on the necessity to adapt Vocational Coaching to the actual wants of the market and to hyperlink STEM straight to those research because of the excessive variety of jobs that exist and can come up in these topics.
A number of the approaches that had been mentioned had been placed on the desk by Salomé Pradas, within the opening session, highlighting the range of present jobs and their adaptation to a brand new digital area. Not all of them might be 100% digitised. He burdened the necessity to attend to professions particular to the area, such because the tile trade, and to guard employees and workers within the sector, highlighting the significance of lively participation in Europe and proposing options to advertise employment, particularly amongst younger folks.
Piergorgio Sciaqua, Co-President of EZA, additionally burdened on the inauguration the significance of social dialogue between all European actors and the required collaboration between member international locations to proceed constructing Europe and the Europe of the longer term the place expertise is an added worth to take care of and enhance the standard of life and the welfare state.
The agricultural surroundings was additionally one of many matters on which the necessity to take measures to reactivate an exodus from the cities to the villages was established. This return to the agricultural surroundings has been favoured because of the COVID pandemic and has re-emerged as locations of first and second residence. This has been made attainable by teleworking, this rebalancing is one thing we have to reap the benefits of and observe strains that assure high quality work and actual connectivity in every single place. It was emphasised that this repopulation of the agricultural surroundings facilitates the potential for sustaining and caring for the surroundings, stopping fires and permitting animals to develop in an appropriate surroundings. To this finish, the incorporation of expertise, sensors and drones, amongst others, can facilitate measures to look after and management these areas.
Miguel Barrachina burdened that simply as giant firms purchase CO2 emission rights and pay for it, farmers must be paid for the profit they make within the care of the countryside and the upkeep and conservation of bushes that restrict air pollution, for instance in orange groves. Probably the most applauded concepts was that farmers and stockbreeders must be allowed to do their work with out a lot forms and that they need to be allowed to do their job as specialists on the surroundings. The method is to provide worth to searching, pruning and forest care in a preventive approach by the use of a critical plan primarily based on data of the surroundings, utilizing surveillance with drones, cameras and expertise, and having the ability to anticipate the completely different issues which will come up. In Barrachina’s phrases, when land is deserted and never taken care of, a hearth is being inspired inside 10 years.
José Seco, President of CSIF Schooling within the Valencian Group, offered headlines on the significance of lifelong studying. Schooling is a vital aspect of life, the sensation that lecturers, dad and mom and college students have with the legislative modifications is one in all chaos. There’s a lack of correct steerage for pupils in order that they know easy methods to obtain an finish and that households know that there are at all times a number of paths to attain it.
The Professor of Economics, Javier Morillas energised the desk wherein completely different organisations offered the imaginative and prescient of the way forward for work of their respective international locations, Poland, Portugal and Italy and likewise the consultant of the commerce union USO confirmed the actions and work that they’re at the moment finishing up. The members had been Pedro Estevao, Researcher on the College Institute of Lisbon (C.F.T.L.- BASE-F.U.T.) and Pedro Estevao, Researcher on the College Institute of Lisbon (C.F.T.L.- BASE-F.U.T.) – Portugal, Ms. Agata Dziubińska-Gawlik, President of Europejski Dom Spotkań – Fundacja Nowy Staw – Poland, José Manuel Pessanha, President Federação dos Trabalhadores Democrata-Cristãos (FTDC) – Portugal, Sheila Rosauro from USO Youth and Maria Reina Martin Vice-President of EZA. Undoubtedly, Synthetic Intelligence (AI) is among the essential parts which can be producing an ideal transformation in jobs, but it surely additionally has a direct software in sustaining and enhancing the present welfare state. José Luis Fernández, Director of the USO Analysis Workplace, defined the significance of the applying of those applied sciences in day-to-day work, highlighting the dangers of lack of privateness that teleworking can entail and the safety breach inherent to it, in addition to the significance of particular person worker self-management in not being completely linked and falling into the chance of not disconnecting.
One other of the weather debated all through the seminar was the necessity to promote STEM research and particularly within the discipline of Vocational Coaching, Vicente Marchante, President of USIE, Union of Schooling Inspectors within the Group of Valencia, defined the legislative modifications which can be being carried out at nationwide degree and within the Group of Valencia itself, and the necessity to hyperlink these Vocational Coaching research with STEM because of the giant variety of rising professions and people who can be created within the coming years for which there aren’t any outlined skilled profiles as but.
The debates and conversations of the seminar continued with a ship journey across the Albufera Valenciana, the place the members from the completely different Autonomous Communities and European international locations who attended had been in a position to be taught first-hand concerning the environmental wealth of this protected surroundings and the processes linked to the cultivation, advertising and marketing and export of rice.
