Thank you very much, Fernando. I am Agustín Caminero, I am the Vice-Rector of the Board of
Permanent Training and I co-direct the Work Package 2 together with the University of Germany.
I don't know if Fernando has it.
No, I have it here.
I understand. Is it off?
It should be.
Well, as I said, I am part of the Board of Permanent
Training, led by the Vice-Rector Miguel Ángel Sander.
My work within this Pre-NEU project is the co-direction of
this Work Package, which is divided into these three tasks.
Those three tasks that appear here aim to improve
employability and training throughout life.
And we are going to do it thanks to
these three tasks, as I have just said.
The first, the one on the left, the professional GPS.
This GPS, the way they have named it, because
it works like a GPS that we have in the car.
That is, a GPS that does, we tell it a goal, we want to go, for example,
to the beach house or to the workstation, and the GPS gives us indications.
It takes this street, turns right, straight, three kilometers,
takes the 36th detour, and so we reach our destination.
Well, this system, which will be developed as a goal of task 1, will serve to help people
identify their workstation and the training options they need to reach that workstation.
That is, let's imagine that I want to be an artificial intelligence
specialist applied to marketing, because that's what interests me.
Well, to occupy that workstation, it is necessary to train in these certain
ways, with these courses, these micro-credentials, this open master, for example.
In this way, we aim for each person to improve their employability.
This task is carried out by the UOC, they already have a small prototype, and it will
be put into production in at least three European countries, one of which is Spain.
Well, as I said, the GPS gives indications. To reach this
workstation, you can train with any of these options.
Well, the other two tasks serve to create those options.
First, we have the permanent learning portfolio,
which, first of all, identifies existing itineraries.
We see which training options are available at the participating universities, and then
we unify them so that it is easily navigable and easy to find what you are looking for.
And then, we create training offers to
cover a series of objectives of the project.
Here we mention the term micro-credential.
A micro-credential is a short course focused on employability.
So, micro-credentials are a very important training offer, which
is recognized not only within Europe, but throughout the OECD.
So, we will work by creating micro-credentials,
among other things, but also other training offers.
Specifically, we will create
micro-credentials in entrepreneurial skills.
In this task, the leader of the UOC, our colleague Miguel
Bernabe, the director of the OECD, is the leader of this sub-task.
We will also have micro-credentials on the application
of artificial intelligence in higher education.
We will explore how artificial intelligence can be used
and we will train educational professionals in this area.
And then, we also lead the open master's
course on climate emergency and sustainability.
In this sub-task, Professor Emilio Luque Pulgar, from the Faculty of Sciences, is the leader and leads
a team of teachers, both from the Faculty of Sciences and from other faculties of our university.
Professor Emilio Luque is already the coordinator of a proposal for a university master's
degree, so he has extensive experience in the topics of this open master's course.
And then, we have the last task, which is
the one on re-qualification and update.
It consists of interacting with external institutions, such as
Eurocities, Stifter-Bergland or the Bulgarian Industrial Association,
in order to provide, that is, to create training offers that are focused
on the needs that these external institutions have already identified.
Eurocities is an institution that includes European cities,
whose goal is to improve the quality of life of these cities.
Stifter-Bergland is a German association that tries to reduce
the space between the business world and the scientific world,
so that through Stifter-Bergland, German
companies finance scientific projects.
And then, we also have the Bulgarian Industrial
Association, which has also identified some needs.
So, training offers are going to be created, micro-credentials in many cases, with
the aim of covering the needs that these external institutions have identified.
And a manual is also going to be created
on how to create training offers.
This is the brief summary of the work package number 2, which I,
as Vice-Chair of the Board of Permanent Training, am directing.
Just a small indication, because I'm also seeing the team there.
Emilio Lupque is from Political Sciences and
Sociology, but he's in Environmental Sciences.
And we have a team there, with María José Bautista Cerro, who is the Director
of the UNESCO Cathedral for Environmental Education and Sustainable Development,
and Rubén Díaz, who is also from the Faculty of Sciences.
And all three are involved in the
field of environmental sustainability.