ShareRegistration open for the Employability in Programme Development congress
The event will feature lectures by Professors Tristram Hooley and Lisa Taylor along with panel discussions and interactive workshops. As partners in the project Employability in Programme Development (EPD), the Autonomous University of Barcelona will host the event while AQU Catalunya helps with congress organisation.
Registration for the Employability in Programme Development congress is now open. The organisers of the event, which will take place on 14 July at the Casa de la Convalescència in Barcelona (Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 171), have already posted an online registration form. The congress, which is completely free, will feature presentations by professors Tristram Hooley and Lisa Taylor, as well as panel discussions and interactive workshops. The event will run from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm.
The project, funded by the Erasmus+ programme and coordinated by the University of Glasgow, aims to establish mechanisms to improve the employability of graduates by providing information about the design and development of training programmes with information taken from the labour market. To reach this goal, the project uses artificial intelligence tools provided by the Artificial Intelligence Lab, of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). In addition, a portfolio of good practices when using labour market information to develop training programmes has been created, and focus groups have been held to learn about the skills needed by employers of graduates.
The congress is particularly suitable for teaching staff, since it is this group that can best incorporate changes in teaching and learning practices to increase graduates' employability. The project, which ends this year after three in operation, is clearly aligned with the Employers Project, which AQU Catalunya has been carrying out since 2014 thanks to the support of the "la Caixa” Foundation Apart from AQU Catalunya, the other project partners are the Autonomous University of Barcelona, through its Globalisation, Education and Social Policies (GEPS) research group, the University of Reading, through its Department of Economics, and the University of Glasgow, through its Education Leadership and Policy (ELP) research group.