OREANDA-NEWS. The SKOLKOVO Education Development Centre in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) has staged a conference that was dedicated to the foresight forecasting of new personnel.

The event was held within the international phase of the “Skills foresight 2013” project that has been implemented by the Moscow School of Management since January 2012. The project, which is unique for Russia, represents complex research that is aimed at finding of the most essential professions in key spheres of the economy till 2030 with taking into account the upcoming technological changes.

This was the first conference in the world where the participants studied in detail the connection between a technological foresight and forecasting of the new skills demand. It's a new and relevant trend that solves personnel problems of growing and innovative spheres. The research is getting ready for the publication this autumn and is going to be interesting and helpful for foresight and forecasting specialists in emerging markets.

Leading experts from Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, China, Republic of Korea, Japan, India, Brazil and international organizations under the direction of Pavel Luksha, Professor of Practice at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, have designed the principle of the system for future skills forecast using technological foresight. These concepts will underlie the technology that is being created within the joint-project of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and the ILO and will be tested in Armenia and Vietnam.

The key results of the “Skills foresight” implementation in Russia are:

Recommendations to reorganize the content and formats of the personnel preparation at several high-tech spheres (the modernization will touch on not less than 19 mln jobsites);

New tool for professional orientation for graduates and their parents including “Atlas of new professions” and “List of moribund professions”, both papers are set to be published this autumn;

Forecasting tool for new skills demand that was successfully tested during the joint-project of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and UAC and applied to the road map elaboration for children goods development (with support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation) and educational foresight for Russia's transport industry.