My thought on the Roadmap Next Economy

February 3, 2017 - Context of Education / Landscape of Education

Today I was invited to the presentation of the Roadmap Next Economy in Rotterdam. The vice president of Europe (Maroš Šefčovič) had decided to visit the Rotterdam The Hague Metropolitan area as the first stop of his Energy Tour to promote the European policy on the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement. At this occassion Mayor Aboutaleb presented the Roadmap Next Economy of the region, which is acknowledged as a best practice for the economic and energy transition in Europe. Famous writer and economist Jeremy Rifkin also attended. The event was be hosted by Jan Rotmans. As you probably can imagine the seats were mostly filled with CEO’s and other very important business (mostly) man. But in the inventation they also appealed to the next generation, in which they placed me.

The next economy belongs to the next generation, so this is your chance to have a dialogue with some of the prime movers of the next economy agenda in Europe and propose your ideas about solutions for the future. Don’t miss it!

They asked me to take place at the front row, probably for the image of the event. The front row was filled with (the only) millenials that attended.

The Roadmap contains 5 topics. The fifth topic (Next Society) enhances education. I am a little bit disappointed (note: not surprised) that education seems to be at the bottem and lowest priority of the roadmap. Vice President Maroš Šefčovič was very enthousiastic about the dutch education. And I think he is right if we compare our education with other countries. But our education is still based on the second industrial revolution. I believe that education should not be the last point on the agenda, I think education can be the kickstarter of innovation of the economy. But we need to change the climate of innovating education. The system, in which education is living, is poisening the innovation. In other words, education is now most of the times behind on the change. We should talk about the next education, instead of the education of now…

 

 

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