Across Europe and neighbouring regions, the combined forces of technological innovation, demographic change, and economic uncertainty are redefining the skills needed for resilience. Artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and digitalisation are transforming how people learn and work, creating both new opportunities and growing pressures on education and training systems. These trends call for coordinated responses that connect technology adoption with improvements in training quality, institutional capacity, and inclusion, key priorities in the ETF’s ongoing work on future-ready skills and human capital development.
Building resilience in this fast-evolving context means going beyond the acquisition of digital competences. It requires systems that can anticipate change, educators who are empowered to innovate, and qualifications that remain responsive to emerging technologies and learners’ diverse needs. Research by the ETF and other international partners (OECD, UNESCO, ILO) highlights that while digital tools can expand access and support lifelong learning, the impact depends on the quality of pedagogical design, teacher development, and policy alignment. In crisis-affected contexts, for instance, AI and interoperable skills frameworks can play a critical role in maintaining learning continuity and supporting displaced populations. At the same time, professional learning communities and peer networks, such as those developed through Microsoft’s MVP and MCT programmes, show how collaboration and mentoring can sustain innovation and enhance teaching practice.
This webinar, focusing on the Eastern Partnership region, brought together different perspectives to illustrate these dimensions. Together, these contributions shed light on how education and training systems could bridge the gap between technological innovation and quality provision, creating stronger, more adaptive foundations for lifelong learning and skills resilience.
You can find the agenda and presentations as attachments to this page.
The webinar recording can be viewed here.
A short summary will be available soon on this page.
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