Since Harvard economists Goldin & Katz published their ground-breaking book The Race between Technology and Education (2008), education has come face-to-face with the challenges of a world continuously altered by technological innovation. Education is generally perceived to be a laggard social system, better equipped to transmit the heritage of the past than to prepare for the future. This perception is not entirely accurate; OECD/CERI work on Measuring innovation in education (2014) demonstrates that education is a system that is not change-averse. More...

Each year, 8 million tons of plastic end up in the oceans which is the equivalent to a full rubbish truck every minute. This pollution threatens the survival of fish and other sea creatures, destroys marine and coastal ecosystems that support over three billion people worldwide, and endangers human health as it enters the food chain. If no action is taken, by 2050 there could be more plastic than fish in the oceans. More...

Cette question part de la remarque d'un collègue qui à l'issue d’une université d'été de l'innovation me fit remarquer que la moyenne d'âge des participants dépassait la cinquantaine. Et pourtant les idées exprimées, les projets portés ne manquaient ni d’ambition, ni de rêve, ni d’un grain de poésie et de folie. Plus...