This week a forum took place in Salamanca under the title “Dialogue on the Future of Education”. An event organized by the University of Salamanca, the Salamanca City Council, Fundación Telefónica and international institutions, including the European Commission and the European Parliament. During the conference, the importance of the modernization of European education systems, digitalization, excellence and measures for the next academic year were discussed.

The event included several round tables and workshops, with the aim of enriching the public debate and offering citizens the possibility of participating directly in the conversation about the country that can be achieved in the post-COVID world, incorporating the different ideas into the Spain 2050 project.

  • European Commissioner Margaritis Schinas during the opening session of the forum.

We were also able to learn from the Vice President of the European Commission for Promoting our European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, that the European Commission has proposed three initiatives for the coming year, with the aim of promoting digitalization in primary, secondary and higher education, as well as encouraging excellence by promoting the leadership of European universities. He also reported that it is intended to double the funding of the Erasmus+ program and increase the fund of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, where Spain is “a major recipient of both aids”.

This is excellent news for the student community and for the development of education in Spain.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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