2023-09-13 10:03:44
Technology has become a lever for change, growth, development and innovation that facilitates the evolution of society and productive sectors. And training is necessary to promote inclusive digital development.
According to the report ‘The Digital Society in Spain 2023’produced by Telefónica Foundation, the technology sector needs to fill some 124,400 vacancies, especially in software development, systems and cybersecurity. For this reason, the Telefónica group, through its Foundation, promotes training in digital skills to improve employability, reduce the educational gap and address the new social and digital vulnerability.
Training in digital profiles
The growth of technological trends such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Blockchain or cybersecurity have increased the global need of productive sectors to have specialized profiles in the technological and connectivity field that allow them to satisfy this need. demand for specialist people.
Aware of the need to promote people’s training in both digital skills and those known as ‘soft skills’, Fundación Telefónica launched the 42 Madrid programming campus in 2019. A free, in-person training project that prepares its students for the work that the labor market currently requires.
The Madrid campus was later joined by those in Barcelona, Urduliz (Bizkaia) and Málaga. All of them are part of an international network of 50 centers, spread across 29 countries, whose learning method has positioned them in sixth place in the TOP 10 of the most innovative universities in the world in 2023, according to the ranking PLACE.
Campus 42 Barcelona.
Campus 42: a disruptive model for learning programming
The 42 campuses that Fundación Telefónica, except in Madridhas launched, in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Bizkaia in the case of 42 Anxious; the Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat of Catalonia in 42 Barcelona and the Malaga City Council, the Junta de Andalucía and the Provincial Council of Malaga, in 42 Málagahave established themselves as a disruptive project focused on preparing people for the most sought-after digital professions.
In 42 you “learn to learn”, developing the ability to adapt and find solutions to problems through collaborative training among equals that encourages teamwork, in 42 there are no teachers, no books or timetables; and gamified through a method of improving levels to acquire the technical and transversal skills that companies are demanding.
To be a student in 42, in addition to being of legal age, it is only necessary to pass two online tests and a period of 26 days of in-person immersion, called ‘pool’, in which candidates immerse themselves in the 42 method. It is not It is necessary to have prior technical knowledge.
The diversity of profiles characterizes the 42 campuses. Among its students can be found people interested in video game design, mobile applications, big data, cybersecurity, etc. to unemployed people, VET and technical career students, teachers or simply those who want to update their professional profile to adapt it to this digital age.
Campus 42 Madrid.
Technological competencies and priority skills
At Campus 42 you not only learn programming, you also promote what the World Economic Forum highlights in its report ‘The Future of Work 2023’ as ‘priority skills’, that is, critical and creative thinking, resilience, flexibility, leadership, creativity or frustration tolerance, among many others.
These types of skills are increasingly important given that the emergence of technologies such as artificial intelligence are generating a profound transformation of the labor market.
In fact, AI will encourage people who are trained in technical skills such as programming to tackle more complex and creative tasks, which are not automatable, and which will allow them to improve their productivity and efficiency and get involved in the development and improvement of applications or solutions focusing on innovation.
Campus 42 Urduliz.
Promote female presence
Since 42, STEAM disciplines have been promoted and gender stereotypes associated with certain professions in the technological environment have been combated, in order to promote female talent from the campus. This project has reinforced Fundación Telefónica’s commitment to social inclusion: minimize gender gaps and female empowerment through digital training.
To this end, the 42 campuses reserve 30% of places for women in the face-to-face entrance tests, the ‘swimming pools’; They promote specific training for them in which for a week the participants learn to develop a website and together with entities, organizations and other foundations they organize sessions to make visible and promote the role of women in the technological environment.
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