00:00.
00:01all parkour in europe 40 % of employers complain they can't find workers with the right skills to fill their
00:08vacancies.
00:09so here in portugal the country is making a push to promote vocational education and training.
00:15what is what I really like, to be here to start and put a hand in the table is what
00:19I really like.
00:20I think that with the practice that we acquired it will be easy to work.
00:24Ich bin mir sehr gut, dass ich mich anstrengen.
00:26Ich bin mir sehr, sehr gut, dass ich mich anstrengen.
00:40Ich denke, die Professionals ist eine gute Lösung.
00:57Hier in der Seor School in Phamalikau,
01:01over 400 students are learning everything from how to weld metal
01:05to how to measure blood pressure.
01:07They believe their courses are perfectly adapted to societal trends.
01:11An aging population needs pharmacists.
01:15A digitized low-carbon economy needs electricians and CNC programmers.
01:19And when it comes to AI, nobody here worries that a robot will take their job.
01:25I think robots and artificial intelligence will never be able to replace it.
01:30Even if they can find the problem, they will never be able to explain to clients
01:36how the problem came out and how they can solve the problem.
01:41Artificial intelligence serves as a tool.
01:43I use it many times to acquire a more technical vocabulary.
01:48But at any time I think it will replace the pharmaceutical advice.
01:53Portugal's push for skills is nationwide.
01:56The government wants 55% of secondary school students
02:00to be enrolled in vocational education and training by 2030,
02:04and nearly 1.5 billion euros from the European Social Fund Plus
02:08will go to support that vocational training
02:10via Portugal's Pessoas 2030 economic program.
02:15The director of this school regularly meets employers
02:18to be sure that training courses match the skills they require now and in the future.
02:23And he also stresses that their students should learn to be good employees.
02:28And that requires a whole different set of skills.
02:30We have to look at the training, an integral of an individual.
02:35And a young or an adult who has soft skills that today the market needs,
02:42to be creative, competent, competent, communicator, etc.
02:47All these skills are transversal to any professional activity.
02:53Despite the funding efforts, European society as a whole sends mixed messages about vocational training.
03:00According to a recent Eurobarometer survey,
03:03only half of Europeans would actually recommend vocational education and training to young people.
03:09While at the same time 85% of Europeans agree that such training provides relevant skills for much-in-demand
03:16jobs.
03:18Many governments would like to encourage students to learn valuable hands-on skills.
03:23So what kinds of policies are needed to better promote vocational training?
03:31Here at the University of Porto's School of Economics and Management,
03:35we met up with Professor Aurora Teixeira.
03:37She argues for higher salaries for new recruits
03:40and more investment in innovation within companies.
03:44And says governments need to consider the wider economic context.
03:47The educational policy has to be an educational policy combined with a industrial policy,
03:55with a company's policy.
03:57The professional training is a necessary condition
03:59so that the country is more competitive and the companies are more competitive.
04:04One of the leading employers in this region of Portugal
04:08is German camera and optics company Leica.
04:10They hired former SEOR student Antonio Cruz as a maintenance electrician at age 18.
04:16Now, four years later, he says school might be over, but the learning continues.
04:21What I would like to learn more would be,
04:26perhaps, about building electricity,
04:29but also focus on the issues of machines.
04:34We have also started with robotics,
04:36and this will make a lot of difference for us.
04:43As governments seek to promote vocational education and training more widely,
04:48the future is promising for these students,
04:50with three-quarters of trainees at this school finding work as soon as they finish their studies.
04:55Great, thanks, .
04:56Good good.
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