Research and Innovation Center Future Skills

Future skills are a crucial factor in preparing companies and organizations for ongoing technological, market-related and societal changes. They create the foundation for reacting agilely to new requirements and ensuring long-term competitiveness. Developments such as artificial intelligence and growing demands for sustainability, accelerate the emergence of new new skills and job profiles. In this context, continuing professional development and lifelong learning are of central importance in order to actively boost the necessary knowledge transfer. 

Despite the general awareness of the relevance of future skills and continuous professional development, many organizations face considerable challenges when it comes to the practical implementation: it is necessary to identify future skills requirements at an early stage, initiate suitable measures, develop agile learning formats and establish a dynamic learning culture. The Research and Innovation Center Future Skills operates from the Heilbronn education campus as an internationally recognized platform and contact hub, attending to all questions relating to future-oriented continuing education. The aim is to sustainably strengthen future openness, adaptability, permeability and innovative strength in the system of continuing vocational education and training - in particular through the use of AI-supported innovation processes.

Key topics:

• Guidance for professional development trends and technologies: How can continuous, data-based and AI-supported monitoring of training technologies and trends be effectively designed and implemented?
• AI-based identification and management of future skills: How can future skills and job profiles be derived systematically, automatically and continuously - and how can holistic systems be developed for strategy-oriented skills management in companies?
• Development of innovative formats and cultures for vocational training: How can design factors in continuing vocational training - such as learning formats, culture and success - be developed in a future-oriented way and in conjunction with new learning technologies?