By Sharon Masterson. While the car was a revolutionary innovation, it was not immediately disruptive. Early cars were expensive luxury items, so the market for horses and carts remained intact until the Ford Model T created a mass market by making the new technology affordable, thanks to more efficient production methods. More...
By OECD Statistics Directorate. More than four out of ten workers in European OECD countries held jobs where the quality of the working environment resulted in job strain in 2015, with male, low-educated, and younger workers disproportionately affected and significant differences across countries. Nearly two-thirds of workers in Greece and over half in Spain, for example, worked in ‘strained’ jobs in 2015. More...
Ministers, the business community, civil society, labour and the Internet technical community will gather in Cancún, Mexico on 21-23 June for an OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy: Innovation, Growth and Social Prosperity. Today’s post is by Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission, leading the Project Team Digital Single Market. More...
By Helmut Brand. Europe is undergoing a period of profound demographic change. Populations are ageing, fertility patterns are changing, modern living has impacted our habits, and consequently, there is an increasing prevalence of people living with one or more chronic disease. More...
UAS4EUROPE aims at providing a central platform for European universities of applied sciences, allowing them to join forces and speak with one voice. Just before the launch, UAS4EUROPE presented a joint position paper that shows the roles of universities of applied sciences and their value to Europe. More...
The Guild brings together universities from across Europe that have demonstrable excellence in teaching, research and policy formation to collaborate on the creation of innovative solutions to some of Europe’s most intractable scientific and social challenges. More...
The University Industry Innovation Network (UIIN) has launched a call for abstracts and proposals for its Asia-Pacific Conference on University-Industry Engagement which will take place from 15 to 17 February 2017 in Adelaide, Australia. More...
The event, which will be hosted by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), is entitled “Challenges of the Digital Era for Education, Working and Learning: Researchers and Practitioners in Dialogue”. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the current and future technological challenges in the field of education and to exchange, think and rethink innovations in education, as well as explore the impact of virtual technology. More...
The event will focus on national and institutional policies in the changing pedagogical landscape, empowering universities for excellence in higher education, the Modernisation Agenda for European universities, blended degree education on campus, flexible continuing education, open education and learning analytics and technologies. The conference will also serve as a platform for discussion on social inclusion for migrants and refugees and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. More...
This year’s theme is “Management Education for a Digital World”. Deans and directors of universities and business schools, leaders of international and regional management development institutions, as well as international publishers and representatives from business, government and the media will take part in the event. More...
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