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Future Skills: Between Re-framing and Implementation
future skills are not a clearly defined concept, but rather operate within various areas of tension: between the familiar and the new, between openness and structure, and between different didactic approaches.
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Can the future be learnt?
The focus thus shifts away from the question “What will the future look like?” towards the question “What images of the future shape our thinking, and what happens when we change them?”
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Event review: Reflecting on Future Skills Together in Lausanne
On 19 November 2025, in the Le Salon room at the Casino de Montbenon, the TRANSIT think tank invited participants to try out three games exploring themes of the future and future skills during the event Thinking in a playful way about future trends and the skills of tomorrow.
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Social and emotional skills as future skills
Future skills are very often understood to include social and emotional skills. A newly published OECD report focuses on social and emotional skills and their importance for educational success, labour market integration and the well-being of adults.
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Event Review: Reflecting on Future Skills together
An experiment entitled “Reflecting on future skills together” involved testing games dealing with futures and future skills. Participants spent the afternoon reflecting together.
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Skills as a value-adding factor
The more uncertain the future, the more eagerly people search for «future skills». The Future Skills trend report (Buchs 2025) explores this topic in more detail. It provides criteria for evaluating the numerous competence concepts currently in circulation, for example. The report is a valuable resource for those involved in adult education and learning. And…
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TRANSIT workshop on the future of adult learning and future skills
Matteo Ficara took the participants on a journey through three time horizons. The aim was to identify the skills that those working in adult education and learning will need in the future.
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Event in Lausanne: Future Skills – Implications for Adult Learning
At its event on 4 December, the TRANSIT think tank invited the public to reflect and discuss Future Skills. As in the previous year, Le Salon at the Casino de Montbenon proved to be an inspiring venue. Participants reflected together on the future needs of adult learning in the context of a rapidly changing society.…
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Event report: Future Skills – Implications for Adult Education
On 18 November 2024, the TRANSIT think tank invited participants to the Photobastei in Zurich to reflect on and discuss future skills. Together, the participants considered the future demands on adult education in the context of a changing society. Among other things, the focus was on the question of how future skills can go beyond…
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Results of the TRANSIT 2024 evaluation discussions
The main motivation for joining TRANSIT is the in-depth discussion of future related issues and the interdisciplinary exchange with like-minded people.
