SKILLMAN.EU INTERNATIONAL FORUM 2021 on “redefining the future of learning” – December 2020.

Experts from around the world will share information and knowledge about different aspects connected to  Advanced Manufacturing and TVET.

• The forum is a part of a long journey where the participants work together to achieve common goals aiming at improving education and TVET.
• The participants share a strong commitment to co-shaping an inclusive resilient and sustainable society, where TVET represents a pillar for innovation in curricula development and designing the “society of tomorrow”.

• The forum is a part of a long journey where the participants work together to achieve common goals aiming at improving  education and TVET.
• The participants share a strong commitment in co-shaping an inclusive resilient and sustainable society, where TVET represents a pillar for innovation in curricula development and designing the “society of tomorrow”.

Skillman started its first International Forum in 2015 in Turin @ CRF – FIAT FCA with around 60 participants.

In 2016 the second event was planned in Brussels and cancelled due to the terrorist attack. The Forum was postponed to March 2017. Moved to Birmingham, in the Jaguar Land Rover premises, it was attended by around 150 participants plus around 100 viewers on live streaming.

The official 2017 edition was instead held in November in San Sebastian with around seventy participants on site from 20 countries and more than 450 spectators on live streaming also from many countries outside the EU.

In 2018 the forum was held online in November. The total participation surpassed 800 subscriptions. 453 of them, from 105 countries, joined the thematic webinars.

In 2019 SIF was held in Florence Italy within DIDACTA fair involving more than 150 members coming from EU and not EU countries. The 2019 edition ended with the Florence Declaration: TVET FOR GREEN, SUSTAINABLE AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE EMERGING NEEDS OF INDUSTRY 4.0 AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS (Skillman.eu 2020).

In 2020 Covid obliged to organise all activities online, including several preparatory meetings deployed in the form of webinars. More than 450 participants have taken part to the final online event held in December 2020 to present and discuss their theories about the future of learning including the Skillman ‘action-driven’ model of CoVEs, an innovative curriculum design approach for the Advanced Manufacturing sector, Ethical values, TVET digitalization, green and inclusion and Transnational mobility and learning. The 2020 edition ended with four peer learning Clubs Policy Declarations published in march 2021 (Skillman.eu 2021)