Education for Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship for Lifelong Learners

In Europe and around the world, new skills-based approaches to job-training and job placement are emerging. Many of these job training programs are being offered online, some within existing national education frameworks, and others offered by private sector enterprises. At the same time, an estimated 15 to 30 percent of all workers in Europe are self-employed or engaged in some type of independent labor, which makes entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship one of the largest segments of the overall workforce. Rapid changes in markets are likewise increasing the opportunities for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, and the pressures they face, in response to new commercial opportunities.

This free one-hour online panel discussion of three high-level experts will examine the combination of these two overlapping trends, skills-based approaches to job training, and the growth of entrepreneurship/intrapreneurship. The panelists will focus on how skills-based approaches to job training can most usefully be paired with instruction and support for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. In this context, the panelists will explore the role of individual learners, educators, government, standards-setting groups, policy, industry groups, and other stakeholders to illuminate the opportunities to provide increased economic security to the large segment of the overall population engaged in some form of entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship. The panel will also examine the ways entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship skills can be supported in an economy characterized by rapidly changing technologies, shifting markets for goods and services, and other market critical demographic trends. The conversation will be moderated by Hal Plotkin, senior scholar at the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) and former senior policy advisor on higher education in the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama.

Panelist :

Prof. Clodia Vurro, Universita degli Studi di Milano Statale (to be confirmed)

Prof. Carme Pagés Serra, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Prof. Philippe Lebaron, Sorbonne Université