On October 24, Ametic held the VII Alliance Forum for the Development of Digital Talent in which it brought together institutions, companies, universities and experts to “address the great gap between supply and demand of digital talent and officially present the proposal for a Pact social for the comprehensive transformation of education. This last demand is part of the institution’s actions to ask the public administration for a greater and better place for innovation and technology, with initiatives such as ‘#AlianzaTalento7’.
Pedro Mier, president of Ametic (his term ended last Friday, replaced by Francisco Hortigüela), underlines the importance of the ‘here and now’ in the request for a State Pact for Education: «We consider it essential that public administrations collaborate with private initiative in promoting the training and development of digital talent, key elements for the competitiveness of companies and the development of people in the digital world in which we live. We propose a Social Pact for the Comprehensive Transformation of Education and Training, as a solid and consensual basis to prepare the entire population with digital skills and competencies to adapt to a society and a labor market in constant evolution.
An urgent and coordinated response “that should guarantee a stable educational policy that transcends legislatures, promoting continuous investment in education that ensures the equity and quality of the system at each stage. Administrations must facilitate public-private collaboration spaces where companies, educational institutions and the public sector together create training programs aligned with social demands and market demands.
José Bayón, general director of the School of Industrial Organization-EOI, participated in the event, precisely, with a speech on the relevance of public-private collaboration. He highlighted how “to adapt to this reality of permanent change, training and also continuous updating are essential, since digital skills are not static. What will make the difference in this revolution is, in addition to ethics, in regulation; “which must be a driver of technological and business development.” In the case of the EOI, a business school founded in 1955, of a public nature, linked to the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, Bayón highlights its status as “an instrument of the Ministry for the execution of public policies, with proximity to the business world and talent.” (as an example, every year more than 13,000 small and medium-sized companies go through the different programs that we develop, which, in many cases, help us identify needs and opportunities to develop talent)».
Within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, EOI has launched various programs such as Padihwith aid of up to 30,000 euros for SMEs to incorporate disruptive and innovative technologies through the European Digital Innovation Hubs. o Activate Industry 4.0 and Activate Cybersecurity. The institution will continue these lines of collaboration with its presence at the VII National Industry Congress (November 13 and 14, Barcelona).
«The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, as well as the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Public Service (Mier highlights), are especially involved in promoting digital talent in Spain, actively participating in public-private collaboration initiatives, with the presence from Clara Sanz, General Secretary of Vocational Training, and María González Veracruz, Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence at our event. A government commitment that includes initiatives such as the National Digital Skills Plan (more than 1.2 million people have acquired skills to adapt to this new reality). Within it, the Generation D program is based on public-private collaboration, with more than 203 participating entities (personalized evaluation of digital skills and a training plan to improve them).
‘Freeing’ the debate
Another example of collaborative progress was announced, in 2023, with the creation of a technological ‘hub’ focused on 21st century Vocational Training, with a collaboration agreement between the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and companies such as Accenture, IBM, Microsoft Spain, Experis ManpowerGroup and SAP Spain. And several of them (along with Amazon Web Series –AWS–) announced last July, and in collaboration with the Community of Madrid, the project ‘The Future of Technology is in Madrid and it is YOU’ (certification in technologies from AWS, Microsoft and SAP to 7,100 Madrid residents to reduce the impact of the nearly 41,000 unfilled positions in this sector in the Community of Madrid).
Time to evolve, to not give up the effort to promote training in harmony between the public and private sectors, as highlighted by Carlos Magro, president of the Open Education Association: «To say that the Spanish educational system is not a failed system and that we are better than in the past does not mean that we have to settle for what we have and that we do not have to aspire to improvement, with the guarantee of a right that goes beyond attending school.
A transformation that, as Magro indicates, “requires collaboration, agreements at all levels and social sectors, without falling, as in recent decades, into the ‘hijacking’ of the educational debate in pursuit of partisan interests.” With general proposals that can be applied to digital: «Agreements to combat early educational abandonment and high rates of non-degree, a rethinking of post-compulsory secondary education, improvement in the offer and extension of public places in the cycles of intermediate and higher level, free quality early education, improvement of digital skills, teacher training and professional career, etc.
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