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Name and Title: Dimitrios Salampasis, Doctoral Researcher 

Organization Name: Public Research Center Henri Tudor 

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Luxembourg 

Language in Which You Will Present: English 

Target Audience(s): teachers, students, practitioners, policy makers 

Short Session Description (one line): The session will highlight the important linkage between education and the road to employment via active global citizenship

Full Session Description (as long as you would like): 

This presentation touches upon a highly sensitive but poorly investigated topic of global education in relation to the development of the right skills that lead to employment and mobilize human capital.

The democratization of education especially on a global perspective and the abundance of innovative practices practices that foster learning and develop skills and competences fail to address the unprecedented rise of unemployment rates on a worldwide basis. Innovation is considered to be the key facilitator towards this process since it helps into the raising of the awareness of people being citizens of a global society and acting as ones, however its impact is still on an embryonic stage.

This presentation aims at bridging the gap between sustainable education and social innovation by sharing some insights on the role of innovation which by many is considered as the holy grail in the development of educational curricula and attitudes that foster collaboration, cooperation, creativity and entrepreneurial attitudes on a global perspective. 

Education must cease driving a silo attitude and focus more into establishing new norms of effective collaboration, offering opportunities for experimentation, learning by doing experiences and interactions in multidisciplinary and multicultural learning environments. Innovation needs to be put in the locus of the global education reform and the internationalization of education will cater towards this shifting from a closed to an open and flexible learning environment. 

This presentation shares many academic, policy and human resources implications because it brings upon an alternative view of how the schooling and university education needs to be adjusted to the real needs of the economy and what the realization of the development of the right skills within a globalized environment, that will create the leaders of tomorrow. 

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Presentation Global Education Conference 21.11.2013.pdf