4 Jul 2015

How to Train our Children for Future Challenges?

Session 9

We have been in the knowledge economy, i.e the Third Industrial Revolution for twenty years.
The technical shift has ushered us into a hyperentrepreneurial universe where the line between goods and services is blurring into obsolescence, while the automation will make services provided to end-users more flexible than ever before. This means the productive forces will need to be more flexible and interoperable, which implies providing an education based on thorough training in the natural sciences and social sciences. Software programs will play a key role in merging goods and services.

Added to a solid foundation in mathematics and physics, should young Europeans acquire high-level proficiency in coding for the economic and social rigours of 2020 and 2030? Do we have to step up education in the social sciences and the humanities in order to predict the desires of global consumers who are looking to break the monotony of consumerism by forming local and cultural foothold? The current technical shift is summoning a Renaissance of education in Europe, especially in France.

Introduction


Jean-Paul DE GAUDEMAR

Honorary Rector, adviser to the Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research

Biography

Coordination


Christian SAINT-ETIENNE

Member

Cercle des économistes

Biography

Moderator


Guillaume GOUBERT

DIrector

La Croix

Biography

Speakers


Amany ASFOUR

Founder and Honorary President

Business & Professional Women, Egypt

Biography

Bernard GAINNIER

Chairman and CEO

PwC France & Francophone Africa

Biography

Florence NINANE

Partner

Allen & Overy

Biography

Kamila SIDOR

Co-Founder & CEO

Geek Girls Carrots

Biography

François TADDEI

Director

Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires

Biography
All the speakers