New Skills & New Jobs – Bridging the Gap is funded with the European Commission support

(Grant agreement nr. VS/2012/0517)

International Workshop

Understanding & anticipating present

and future skills needs

21st January 2014

Organised by: Kerigma, Innovation & Social Development

Venue: IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal

(Lugar do Aldão › 4750-810 Vila Frescainha S. Martinho)

Registration here: https://pt.surveymonkey.com/s/NSNJEN

Informations: europa@kerigma.pt / +351 253 825 353

Invitation

You are warmly invited to attend this 1 day workshop, which is being held to present

the results of the New Skills and New Jobs- Bridging the Gap European project,

established to explore ways and synergies in Education & Training Systems to deliver

the right mix of

skills to maximise

the chance of a

smooth and

rapid transition

to and between

employments; to

increase

cooperation

between

guidance centres,

employers and training and education providers and responsive interactions

between the worlds of work, education and training.

Funded by the European Commission’s Progress Programme, New Skills & New Jobs

– Bridging the Gap is actively seeking to share and collect best practices, and to

disseminate them through the participation in this international event.

Visit us at: www.newskillsnewjobs.eu & http://www.facebook.com/newskillsnewjobs

Audience

The conference will examine the results and products developed by the project

partnership. Participants representing a wide range of stakeholders from training

providers, Local and National Government and Chambers of Commerce, employers,

employees, students/ trainees will be attending, allowing a unique opportunity to

discuss and debate a key issue facing all European countries.

Provisional Conference Programme

Tuesday 21 January 2014

10.00 Registration, Tea / Coffee

10.30 Welcome and Official Opening

Nuno Feixa Rodrigues – Escola Superior de

Tecnologia – Director

Câmara Municipal de Barcelos*

António Jorge Oliveira – Kerigma‘s President of

the board

11.00 Keynote – The European Employment

Strategy & The Europe 2020 Strategy

The New Skills for New jobs –Does qualification

influence sustainable growth?

Gonçalo Xufre - National Qualifications Authority

President - ANQEP

European Parliament Representative*

11.40 Coffee Break

12.00 New Skills & New Jobs, Bridging the Gap

Project

Susana Oliveira - Project Coordinator, Kerigma

12.20 A mix of skills: the Project results coming

up…

The Toolkit

1. Case Studies of best practices

Bastian Sikora, Gesellschaft für Schweißtechnik

International mbH, Germany

12.40 Lunch

14.00 Introducing the Focus Groups

Best Practices collected in Portugal

A. Skills gap and skills mismatch: what impact on

our companies and organisations?

Moderated by Associação Comercial e Industrial

de Esposende – ACICE

B. New patterns of work organisation to face

technological change- myths and realities

Moderated by Centro Tecnológico para a

Indústria Têxtil e Vestuário de Portugal – CITEVE

C. Interactions between the world of work,

education and training: obstacles and challenges

Moderated by João Luís Nogueira - Deputy

Director Escola Profissional Amar Terra Verde -

EPATV

15.00 Tea / Coffee

15.15 Focus Groups Results &

Recommendations

Moderated by Miguel Baião dos Santos

Deputy Director National Qualifications Authority

- ANQEP

15.30 A mix of skills: The most challenging

results…

The Toolkit

2. Launch of New Skills & New Jobs Prototype

Filipe Chaves - IPCA, Portugal

16.15 Closing Remarks

Gonçalo Xufre - National Qualifications Authority

President- ANQEP

Nuno Reis - National Parliamentarian

Coffee end