Pour beaucoup, être créatif est un don de la nature… Et si cette compétence s'apprenait ? C'est ce que pensent de nombreux créatifs, interrogés par le magazine Fast Company. Mais cela demande du travail, notamment sur soi !
"Il est important que toute explication de la créativité reconnaisse que, dans un sens, il y a quelque chose de nécessairement mystérieux à son propos, et que même ceux qui sont créatifs se sentent un peu perdus quand il faut l'expliquer", explique une étude du British Journal of Education Studies intitulée "La créativité peut-elle s'enseigner ?" Suite...

The European Commission has published a new report called “E-Skills for Jobs in Europe: Measuring progress and moving ahead.” The report showed that Europe is expected to have about 700 000 unfilled new ICT-related jobs by 2015.
Website: E-Skills Report.

The International Tuning Academy Europe is leading (with Lumina Foundation) a research project on learning outcomes/competences, which is funded jointly by the European Commission and Lumina Foundation (USA).
The project is now running a survey of individuals holding a variety of roles in higher education. For more information on the project and direct access to the questionnaire go to this website. More...

Close to a million jobs related to ICT will go unfilled by 2020 if Europeans don’t have the digital skills that employers need. Give us your opinion on how we can improve the way we learn web skills in this online survey.
An online survey has been launched in order to gain inside information about the benefits of MOOCs and to examine how they can be further used to increase web talent in Europe. It is targeted at people who are interested in learning or teaching web skills through online or informal learning. It would be especially interesting to hear from entrepreneurs who have developed their ICT skills through online courses. More...

European Union (EU) Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor called his visit to Cedefop premises on 4 March ‘a very important experience’ and stated that ‘good vocational education and training systems are crucial for employment’.
Addressing Cedefop staff, Mr Andor spoke about the youth guarantee, one of the European Commission’s new initiatives to combat youth unemployment. ‘It needs to be a short-term relief and long-term investment in the skills and employability of young people,’ he said. More...

The Council adopted conclusions on innovative education and training to invest in skills, in the context of the European Semester and in particular the education aspects of the 2014 Annual Growth Survey. The conclusions call for action to improve skills performance across the EU and to help protect investment in education and training as areas which can both foster and support growth. Conclusions on Efficient and Innovative Education.

Fiche outil : Gestion des RH : quelques outils au service du développement des compétences
Une entreprise est une structure en mouvement perpétuel, de prises de risques et d’opportunités, et d’adaptation à l’environnement extérieur. Face à cela, la question de l’ajustement des compétences des salariés aux évolutions constantes de l’entreprise se pose de manière cruciale. Suite...