It was important for us that the pupils should learn about what is seen as important life skills for when they start their further education and go into the work market. We linked the learning objectives to the priority of development of key competences in that the pupils could learn about what skills they needed for their future. It was also important for us that the pupils should be able to try out in practical tasks some of these life skills suggested by World Economic Forum
Over the past few decades, the work market has changed dramatically. New kinds of jobs have been created, and in the future, today’s children might have jobs that do not even exist today. Technology changes at a pace most of us cannot keep up with, and what was expected of us in the past, will change in the future. As a school, we felt that we had not enough knowledge and were not prepared enough for the changes in the work market. Hence, we wanted a project where we could investigate what skills World Economic Forum and our local businesses saw as important for our pupils to learn for the future work market. We also wanted to find out what skills were needed in the past, compared to now and what is predicted for the future. Were these the same skills that were needed just a few years ago, and how has the expectations from the employers changed? In this project we wanted to investigate what skills were expected of the pupils’ parents’ generation and what, according to World Economic Forum, skills are expected from this generation of young people. Using the “Top 10 Skills of 2025” published by World Economic Forum as basis for our project, we planned and executed a variety of activities.