Mitsubishi Electric is promoting initiatives to reduce the skills gap in STEM subjects

In the period of five years 2022-2026 they have a risk, second Unioncamere-ANPALno missing more than 50,000 graduatesespecially in the medical-health field, in the economic-statistical area and in various fields of STEM. Furthermore, for education and vocational training, the overall training offer can meet less than 70% of the potential demand.

The demand for skilled profiles in science and technology subjects is expected to increase, with 2 out of 3 primary school children who, according to the World Economic Forum, will work in jobs that have not yet been invented.

Mitsubishi Electricto help reduce the skills gap, it is growing every year various plans than the school year 2022/2023 they were involved 10,500 male and female students of schools in Italy.

On the occasion of “National science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers week”, scheduled from 4 to 11 February, the company has partnered with Start it creativity and social calling UXfor bring primary schoolAlessandro Manzoni’s comprehensive institute of Rosate, in the province of Milan, UXforKidsa project that, thanks to methods based on UX Design and Information Design, will enable students to learn a different method of reading, giving them “tool box” cooperative and compassionate learning.

Over the course of two months, the students of class 3B will be involved in workshops in which, supported by UXfor experts, they will have the opportunity to develop an App with a sustainability theme ranging from their daily needs: from separate waste collection to ways to reach school in a more sustainable way.

the project created by the startup wants raise awareness among young children up integration issues, drawing on UX Design techniques, which make a digital product easier to use for everyone, bring out the hidden talents of students and bring them closer to the career of the future. In Italy and Europe it has already involved 1,000 students and now it has arrived in Lombardy for the first time.

“Bridging the skills gap is important to ensure scientific and technological progress and ensure that young and old are ready for the jobs of tomorrow. That is why cooperation between the world of education, companies, the third sector and institutions is important“, he announced Roberta Salvaderi, Corporate Communications & CSR Team Leader at Mitsubishi Electric.

“We are very happy to be able to support the UXfor project to promote, from the early years of school, a new, integrated way of learning and collaboration, where each student can make his own contribution.“, he added Save.

“We live in a historical period filled with new stimuli and characterized by new knowledge. For this reason, today it is important to start building, from the early years, skills and values ​​for young children, who have an eye focused on their educational and civic future.“, he announced Gloria Chiocci, CEO and Founder UXforKids.

“Knowing how to work collaboratively in teams, bringing creative skills and making integration central to every process will be the keys to the society of the future. With UXforKids, our classroom UX Design workshops promise to make these skills alive and transferable in everyday school lessons and beyond! The students of Rosate Primary School, in collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric, have already laid this first and important brick in the future.“, he said Cluck.

“The educational proposal of UXforKids was enthusiastically welcomed by the Director of IC Manzoni of Rosate and the teachers, as it manifests itself as a laboratory of knowledge, creativity and ideas in which students move within the context of relationships such as protagonists and protagonists. skilled builders of the necessary knowledge to face the reality that awaits them“, he explained Leonilda Adducci, Principal of IC A. Manzoni.

“Children become the creators of their knowledge, the protagonists of their learning process, which takes on a great meaning, as it is directed at performing real tasks, finding creative solutions, teaching them to acquire knowledge, that is, to interpret their knowledge, to know. how to do, in knowing how to live”, he concluded Adducci.