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The aim of this study is to respond to the educational needs of the future, considering automation and robotics. It is inevitable that automation and robotics are changing our lives and they create challenges for the future work life and education. In this study, we investigate what is the educational background of the unemployed people who are in danger of being replaced by automation and what is their educational resilience for adapting work life changes. The data of this study consist of the latest PIAAC data (The Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies). Based on the research we develop a model for re-educating the people who have lost their jobs.
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This study is part of “Manufacturing 4.0 – strategies for technological, economic, educational, and social policy adoption” –project, which is funded by the Strategic Research Council (STN) of the Academy of Finland.
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Nygren, H., Nissinen, K., Rautopuro, J., Mäkitalo, K., Ullakko, K. (2020). Skills Behind the Robotics – How to Re-educate Workers for the Future. In: Moro, M., Alimisis, D., Iocchi, L. (eds) Educational Robotics in the Context of the Maker Movement. Edurobotics 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 946. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18141-3_16
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