Private-Public Sector Collaboration in Education

Dr Jan-Eric SundgrenSenior Vice President, Public and Environmental AffairsVolvo Group

Gothenburg, Sweden

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EDUCATION INDUSTRY

Collaboration of good forces

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Volvo Group

*) 50% of the joint-venture company with Eicher Motor Limited was consolidated in the Volvo Group from August 1st 2008

UD TrucksRenault Trucks Mack TrucksVolvo Trucks

Mack Trucks Volvo Aero Financial ServicesMack TrucksVolvo PentaBusesConstructionEquipment

Eicher *

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Sales and Employees Worldwide 2010

ASIA

OTHER

SOUTH AMERICA

EUROPE

NORTH AMERICA Sales 39%

Sales 11%

Sales 18%

Sales 25%

Sales 7%

12,84414%

4,3225%

53,312 58%

18,53520%

2,396 3%

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Global Supply Chain

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Global Supply Chain

in which

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Global Supply Chain

in which

the education system

is the most important supplier

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The world economy

Redesigning global finance

13 November, 2008

Industry facing major global challenges

Climate

Financial issues

Competence

Innovations

Competitiveness

Urbanisation

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Congestion

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Balancing mobility

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accessibility

Decreasing the environmental impact

Ensuring high safety

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high security levels

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Balancing mobility

and

accessibility

Keeping environmental impact low

Ensuring high safety

and

high security levels

Efficient R&D, innovation and education systems necessary

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Production & Marketing

Verification

Industrialisation

Optimization

Platform development

Standardisation

Concept development

Technical development

Research

Business and

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From R&D to production and sales

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Customer, supplier, society interactions

Production & Marketing

Verification

Industrialisation

Optimization

Platform development

Standardisation

Concept development

Technical development

Research

Visions, business and

product planning

University interactions

5 10 15 Time (years)

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True Innovation requires in addition

Efficient Talent Pipeline

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Informal forum bringing together 50 CEOs and chairmen of major multinational companies of European parentage

Companies of ERT Members are widely situated across Europe, with sales to EU customers exceeding Euro 1 000 billion, thereby sustaining around 6.6 million jobs in the region

European Round Table of Industralists

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ERT MST Education Report

Addressing the role business might have in the problem and should

play in the solution

Published September 2009

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Europe will face large scale competence disparities in the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics areas

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Percentage of women in different scientific majors at German universities

Frank S Becker, European Journal of Engineering Education, 35, Aug 2010, 349-366

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2011-10-11 VDI 2011. Extensive data to be found at http://www.vdi-monitoring.de/index4.php

Women enrolled in electrical engineering in Germany

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2011-10-11 VDI 2010. Extensive data to be found at http://www.vdi-monitoring.de/index4.php

Men and women enrolled in electrical engineering in Germany Progress for women is incremental

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Europe will face large scale competence disparities in the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics areas

European stakeholders need to coordinate efforts

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ERT Vision for a Competitive Europe in 2025ERT launched vision for a competitive Europe in 2025 on 2nd February 2010.

The 5 elements of this Vision are:

• A global champion of sustainable growth

• Well-embedded and respected in global markets

• Unleashing innovative power

• People, education and culture drive productivity

• The model of decisive, reliable and transparent governance

www.EuropeOnTrack.eu

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ERT Vision for a Competitive Europe in 2025

• Build national platforms that support initiatives for effective interactions between business and schools.

• Support life-long learning.

• Build stronger links between the public and private sectors in education.

• Further increase student mobility within the EU.

Education Recommendations

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Competence Supply A Critical Challenge

What can industry do?

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Some generic issues where business can contribute to education

Contributing to understand change

Showing solutions in practice, i.e. work related content

Information on the use of different subjects in daily work life

Role Models

Expanding networks and supporting teachers as well as students, by, e.g., giving access to different perspectives, experience and knowledge

Help building a new leadership

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Schools and businesses need support to succeed in working together

Build on what already exists

• Improve coordination, evaluation and use of research and empirical results

• Create support infrastructures like Jet-Net in every European country

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A European Coordinating BodyObjective: Increase interest in MST education and careers

ResearchNeeds analysis

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Disseminate and stimulate

RepositoryPartnerships

Schools

Businesses

Observatory

Coordinate and support

Evaluation

RepositoryDevelopment

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http://ingenious-science.eu

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coordinated by

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Partners and Stakeholders

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Possible hinders on the road forward

- Reluctant attitudes in the education system

- Reluctant attitudes in industry and low awareness

of the issues

- Economic crisis in large part of Europe

- Lack of leadership

- Funding of new initiatives and

research related to the issues

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Industry demand: Do we really need to know exactly what we will need?

Europe should PUSH for development and not only PULL based

on “needs”.

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A Vision of K-12 Students Today