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The Policy Area Coordinator team for PA Education has now been enlarged by Ida Berg, Norden Association, as Communication Officer, as well as Merle Andraschko, Senate Chancellery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as co-Policy Area Coordinator. We are looking forward to a fruitful cooperation. 

Our last Steering Group Meeting took place in a hybrid format in Stockholm mid-June, where members were updated on the status of the ongoing flagships under PA Education: for instance, the governance of the School to Work flagship has recently been strengthened by a new advisory board with experts from respective line ministries in the Member States. 21 participants have completed the Coordinator Training Programme for One-Stop Youth Guidance Centres delivering integrated services to young adults not in education, employment, or training organised within this flagship. In this context, we cordially invite you to the final conference in this project to be held in Stockholm on 13 September 2022. Please find the programme enclosed. Welcome to register for the conference following this LINK. Please register as soon as possible and not later than on 25 August 2022.

The Baltic Sea Labour Forum recently held a Round Table in Turku where a conference also concluded the project “BSLF – Sustainable Working Life”. Furthermore, members exchanged on the integration of Ukrainian citizens into the labour markets in Member States and discussed the role of members of the Steering Group when it comes to implementation on the national level. As of July 1^st, Sweden will take over the Presidency of the Steering Group. We would like to express our thanks to the outgoing Lithuanian Presidency.

PA Education, Science and Social Affairs organizes two seminars during Annual Forum 2021. Both our seminars are held on September 30. The first one is about distance education and what we can do better after experiencing it for more than one year. The second one emphasizes the importance of education for cluster managers for boosting business integration.
Please enter the Annual Forum website and register for our events!

• Distance education – teaching and learning powered by digital technology

September 30, 10.00–11.30 (CET).
Host: Norden Association in Sweden

Few groups have been less vulnerable to the coronavirus than school children, but few groups have been more affected by the policy responses to contain this virus. The crisis has exposed the many inadequacies and inequities in our school systems – from the broadband and computers needed for online education, through the supportive environments needed to focus on learning, up to the failure to enable local initiative and align resources with needs. But as these inequities are amplified in this time of crisis, this moment also holds the possibility that we will not return to the status quo when things return to “normal”. It is the nature of our collective and systemic responses to the disruptions that will determine how we are affected by them. In this workshop we will take a closer look at the lessons learned in relation to distance education in the Baltic Sea Region and discuss what can be expected post COVID-19. What will the new “normal” be?

PROGRAMME

10.00 Welcome and opening.
Viceminister Mr Ramūnas Skaudžius, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport in the Republic of Lithuania

10.15 Reflecting on lesson learned from distance education during, COVID-19.
Project Coordinator, Mr Jaakko Vuorio, Finnish National Agency for Education

Panel discussion

10.55 Remote classrooms – what can education technology offer and are schools ready?
Head Project Manager, Ms Hanna Elving at Swedish EdTest

11.15 Upskilling and reskilling of the labour force, adjusting to a changed labour market and the importance of offering distance education.

11.25 Closing remarks.
Head of State Department, Ms Corinna Nienstedt, Senate Chancellery, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

For more information regarding the seminar on distance education please contact
Anders Bergström, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The second workshop organized by PA Education and hosted by Netport Science Park i Karlshamn, Sweden, is focused on the importance of education for cluster managers for boosting business integration.

• The importance of collaboration between regional Clusters in the Baltic Sea Region and the impact of BSR Cluster Manager Education

September 30, 15.00–17.00 (CET).
Host: Netport Science Park in Karlshamn, Sweden

Within Baltic Sea Region, several challenges are identified that need to be addressed and solved together. One key in the macro-regional strategies is long-term collaboration between actors in the member states. In the Erasmus+ project BSR Cluster Manager Education, we create possibilities for regional Cluster Managers to collaborate over borders and sectors through a four-module long pilot education exclusively created for Cluster Managers in the Baltic Sea Region. In our event, we will highlight the importance of and challenges for collaboration between regional clusters in Baltic Sea Region and explore how collaboration can be improved. What human resources do we need to foster and what competences can universities help to develop to further strengthen the collaboration through cross-border education of Cluster Managers? As audience, you will be involved, and you can interact with and ask questions to the panel through a chat function.

PROGRAMME

Speakers
The discussion will be facilitated by Katarina Hansell, project coordinator of Erasmus+ project BSR Cluster Manager Education and Cluster Manager for NetPort Energy Cluster in Sweden.

Panelists
Krzysztof Krystowski, Vice President, European Clusters Alliance
Anders Bergström, Policy Area Coordinator, PA Education, Science & Social Affairs
at EUSBSR / Norden Association
Cecilia Lindberg, Hyper Island
Taina Tukiainen, Research Director, University of Vaasa
Lina Dagiliene, Professor, Kaunas university of technology
Markus Vossel, University of Applied Sciences, Wildau
Dominik Gronarz, Managing Director, Organic Electronics Saxony Management GmbH
Rainer Rönnback, Marketing Director, Jukolux

For more information regarding the seminar on regional clusters please contact
Katarina Hansell, Netport Science Park, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

REGISTRATION: For more general information and registration for the Annual Forum 2021 and for specific seminars, please visit the Annual Forum 2021 website.