Alfonso Molina speaks at the Italian Innovation Summit
School used to provide the basic skills for professions that were often carried out throughout one’s working life. Now, a young person who obtains a diploma or a degree does not even know exactly what or even how many professions they will have in the future. And their preparation can quickly become obsolete. The answer is lifelong learning.
Yesterday Alfonso Molina, Personal Chair in Technology Strategy at the University of Edinburgh and Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, participated in the Italian Innovation Summit, an event organized by 24 Ore Eventi in collaboration with Microsoft at the Assolombarda “Giorgio Squinzi” Auditorium. In the panel on "Solutions for Business - Accelerating Training to Bridge the Gap with the Most Advanced Countries," Molina conversed with Luca Orlando, journalist for Il Sole 24 Ore.
“Obviously this is a very important and complex issue, as it is about creating a culture of lifelong learning,” explained Alfonso Molina. “This requires a systemic transformation, starting with the transformation of teaching in terms of skills. And learning must increasingly include the dimension of value because with artificial intelligence ethics is starting to acquire a very important value. For lifelong learning we use a systemic approach, involving many stakeholders, starting with schools. Our projects are based on vertical groups that vary from the comprehensive institute to universities and companies. One example is Smart & Heart Rome organised in schools in the suburbs of Rome the capital, where we have designed and created Innovation Gyms, innovative learning spaces, addressing issues ranging from robotics to virtual reality [...]”.
