2.Concrete outcomes Group work 1: Engineers’ employability and recognition of the profession 2.1. Identification of barriers Everyone has the right to quality education and lifelong learning in order to maintain and acquire skills to remain in the employment and manage the transitions in the labour market, impacted by the digitalization processes. Even though the Nordic region scores high in terms of innovation and new technology, the talent shortage is becoming a sad reality. There is also an observed tendency where the national governments prioritize the low-skilled employees as a target group to benefit from the support in acquiring the lifelong learning opportunities. Summary of the responses provided by participants on the question: What are the current barriers to access lifelong learning opportunities? Table 1 ✓ Lack of incentives in the companies ✓ Lack of training courses tailored to employees’ needs ✓ Lack of time for training courses ✓ Lack of regularity in supply of training courses ✓ Lack of lifelong learning courses provided by higher education institutions Table 2 ✓ Lack of finances ✓ Lack of lifelong learning long-term strategies ✓ Lack of cooperation between employers and employees as regards lifelong learning strategies ✓ Lack of governmental incentives towards companies as regards lifelong learning strategies Table 3 ✓ Lack of awareness of lifelong learning courses’ supply ✓ Over prioritisation of low-skilled workforce ✓ Lack of business-academiagovernment partnership on lifelong learning ✓ Participating in training is not a norm yet, it requires convincing Table 4 ✓ Lack of supply for high-quality STEM related courses ✓ Lack of understanding and not seeing the need in acquiring combination of skills (importance of interpersonal and socials kills as much as technical skills) ✓ Employees’ bad conscience of allocating time to training Table 5 ✓ Lack of funding mechanisms for higher education institutions to ensure the supply of courses ✓ Lack of legal requirements for re- and up-skilling ✓ Lack of binding requirement in collective agreements Table 6 ✓ Lack of formal recognition of reand up-skilling ✓ Lack of job swooping ✓ Geographical aspect – the demand is often linked to the geography CATALOGUE OF IDEAS: ANE Joint Boards Seminar 3
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