New European cultural “compass”

Views: 154The European Commission has presented its vision for a vibrant and integrated European cultural landscape with the launch of the Culture Compass for Europe. This forward-looking framework is designed to shape EU cultural policy, to ensure that culture plays a central role in fostering European identity, celebrating diversity and promoting “creative excellence”. 

AI in education: modern challenges for learners and education providers

Views: 193The “educational provision” is presently shared with digital progress: the effects are dealing with the modern challenges and rooted in the need to train newly appeared workforce to “cover” the emerging employment requirements; but not only! At least two aspects heave to be dealt with: quickly providing new skills for evolving industries and finding […]

AIs deployment in European science: multi-faceted approaches and examples

Views: 305Practically valuable, scientifically interesting and already good functioning, existing AI models and EU digital initiatives are becoming an integrating component for numerous EU science and research branches. Most of the AIs – elaborated and/or closely connected to the EU member states – are showing positive perspectives, providing certain science’s impetus in increasing growth and […]

Future employment: perspectives for the EU’s growth and competitiveness

Views: 327World Economic Forum (WEF) in its recent prognostic research on “jobs of tomorrow” revealed some vital drivers in the future employment conditions and circumstances. Transitional perspectives in the future job markets are great: i.e. from creating higher-wage and better-quality jobs to facilitating global/regional competitiveness and reducing inequalities. Present national politico-economic decisions might definitely take […]

Recent Competitiveness Summit: additional remarks on vital EU issues

Views: 284During an informal meeting of the EU member states in Denmark this October, a special sub-event took place – the Competitiveness Summit – at which both the Commission President and European corporate community leaders once again revealed the EU-wide opinion on complex competitiveness’ issues. 

EU’s Savings and Investments Union: two new initiatives

Views: 528The European Commission has announced two major initiatives to advance the Savings and Investments Union: the comprehensive package focuses on improving financial literacy for all and at all life stages and introduces a blueprint for Savings and Investment Accounts as the tool aimed at making investing simpler and more accessible for everyone. 

New EU strategy to facilitate research and innovation infrastructures

Views: 278The EU institutions started Union-wide consultation process contributed to the preparation of the new European R&I strategy, including a public call for evidence and several dedicated conferences and events. The strategy intends to support and coordinate numerous running and expected EU initiatives to strengthen research, innovation and competitiveness, including startups and AI in science, […]

Future of work: recent accounts on jobs and employment

Views: 443Three main “ingredients” in a national growth pattern are regarded, generally, as quite vital: existing natural resources (e.g. including those in sub-soils), state’s geographic position and available workforce (i.e. quality educated population) to actively participate in socio-economic development. It is not only that the WEF’s recent report on workforce and talent strategies – amid […]

Quality education and SDG-4: global trends in research

Views: 429Quality education is among the sustainable development goals (SDG-17) adopted by the global community already about a decade ago. The “educational SDG-4” has set some vital parameters for national and global governance to assist political economies’ patterns towards progressive growth. The SDG-4 for long is being an integral part of the EU’s member states’ […]

“Digital changes” in law and the legal practice: book review

Views: 328The digital technologies and AI models are rapidly changing not only national political economy’s patterns and governance’s methods, but the legal systems and practices, as well. The reviewed book is interesting at least in two aspects: a) in combining researchers from different scientific spheres (legal, political science and digitalisation), and b) in providing insights […]