Use of mentors in the social field
Mentors can support you grow by giving you resources and advice when you need it most. Learn why it’s important to work with mentors in the social field and how to use the experience for your professional growth.
Future Skills
During 2020, each project partner has organized national consultation workshops with selected stakeholders – employees, employers and decision-makers. The aim of these consultations was to gather inputs from different perspectives regarding the future challenges and skills needs in social field for the 2030 horizon.
The results were then subjected to a Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) which resulted in a list of 55 competencies that can be found in the research report.
These competencies were discussed in the context of two Future Conferences held in June 2021 and in October 2021, each hosting participants from Austria, Denmark, Italy and Romania. The aim was to foster discussions around the relevant skills for the future and around how can social organizations better develop, catalyze, maintain an environment suited for such future skills.
Main output in this process is the Inventory of Future Skills.
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Drivers of Change that are Shaping the Social Field
What makes one change? What about an entire sector? Learn about the drivers of change in the social field from the video below by Diana Stafie, foresight strategist and founder of Future Station
Trends and Challenges that Affect the Social Field
There are lots of challenges and trends that affect the social field, including economical, social and political factors. Learn more about them and get ready for the future.
Skills and Competences in the Social Field for the year 2030
Over 170 professionals participated in the first phase of the FOCUS project. During the national consultations, specialists from four countries, Austria, Denmark, Italy and Romania, came up with a list of trends, challenges and skills that one should develop to prepare for the future....
Resilience as a Skill in the Social Field
Resilience is a concept increasingly prevalent in a world marked by uncertainty and risks to public health, but also a key competence that we have identified in the FOCUS project. What does resilience mean for social workers? Bernhard Drumel, CEO of Concordia International, presents...
Crisis Management in the Social Field
Who would answer the question “Would you like a crisis in your organization?” with a “Yes!”? Most likely, no one, but Cornelia Burtscher, Director of Human Resources and Organizational Development Concordia International, comes to us with an interesting...
Systemic Thinking – What it Means and How to Develop it
Systemic management is a key competence identified by social specialists from the four partner countries of the FOCUS project. Werner Kerschbaum, former Secretary General of the Austrian Red Cross, shares with us the principles underlying systemic management, as well as advice on the...
Training Intercultural Understanding and Cultural Fluency
Promoting intercultural understanding is an important and complex topic that has ramifications for the career and vocational education. Globalization and multiculturalism are becoming essential components of our life and work environments. Most communities and workplaces are now...
Building Communities
Building communities, being able to understand what happens in the environment and with the stakeholders and gathering them together around one common goal is an essential competence for the future of social work. Learn more about building communities from the video.
Social 2030: Future Skills – Foresight Report
Read the complete foresight report about the skills that social field professionals should develop to remain relevant in the future (2030).
Disclaimer
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.