The concept of a smart city is assumed to use resources more efficiently and in an innovative, creative, and intelligent manner. Initial experience with implementing this concept relates primarily to investments in technology and infrastructure using smart solutions, particularly technical urban infrastructure. An important social aspect of a smart city—people—cannot not go unnoticed. The inhabitants of a smart city are not only beneficiaries; they participate in its co-creation, initiate activities and are creative. This paper focuses on one of the smart city’s technical infrastructure components, which are intelligent sustainable buildings. This article aims to analyze the factors characterizing smart sustainable buildings (SSB) and the possibilities for their development. For this purpose, a SWOT matrix was developed. The factors of this matrix were subjected to a cause-effect analysis using the DEMATEL method to establish relationships between them. The results of the analysis allowed us to examine the social aspect, i.e., the impact of creators and users of sustainable, intelligent buildings on their development and possibilities for their creative and innovative use in an urban space.
The article deals with questions about the rules of effective, efficient and rational management through the results of marketing communications of administrative units of local self-government. The authors point to the Polish experience in this area with regard to systemic transformation since 1990, based on the decentralization of power and the effective dismissal of social potential, by focusing marketing communications of local governments on activating citizens to take action and ensure citizens' responsibility for the environment. These changes set new tasks for local governments, the proper implementation of which should be based on the implementation of management through the results that can be identified in local government bodies as a process of setting measurable goals for the administration responsible for specific public tasks. implementation of the mechanism of continuous monitoring of these goals, as well as the adaptation mechanism in the context of changes in the internal and external conditions of the organization and informing the public about the results achieved. The results management is based on modern tools used in public finance management, that is, budget execution and management. In order to improve the activities of local self-government bodies, the authors offer lifelong learning in the form of short forms of support (training, courses, seminars) in the process of non-formal learning, taking into account the educational prerequisites for sustainable development. The authors recommend short forms of acquiring new competencies required by the changing environment, challenges related to technological changes and increasing efficiency of market institutions (enterprises), indicating that non-formal education in the field of results management, combining economic, social and ecological aspects is an indispensable element improving the staff of local government administration, aimed at the proper implementation of statutory tasks and competent service of the local community while at the same time rational and effective use of public funds, and thus an essential element of sustainable city management. New management tools implementation combined with the education process can be treated as organisational innovation.
The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused an unprecedented disturbance in higher education and the business services sector. In the 2014–2020 financial perspective, the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development has constituted a response to challenges and an instrument to execute the Europe 2020 Strategy. However, the Programme was not designed to prevent crises, and neither did it foresee the pandemic which surprised the whole world. Despite this, higher education institutions that implemented projects co-financed with the EU funds had to face the “black swan” and ensure the continuity of their activities while improving their resilience to crises. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how important knowledge management and resilience-building skills are for students to adapt and grow stronger in the face of a crisis. Does higher education teach crisis-resistant competences? As we know from practice and literature, the knowledge gap as regards crisis-resistant competencies is enormous, and the relevant university programmes require strengthening. Therefore, we conducted a literature review about knowledge management in complex crises and conducted research to identify competences that increase resilience to crises. The aim of the article was to examine to what extent the support implemented in the Polish university project contributed to the increase in indicators (output, direct result) and to what extent the level of competences of the project participants increased, including those competences that allowed the participants to adapt to the labour market during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the needs of the study, we used the competence balance method and the measurement of a degree of ratio implementation according to the criteria applied. The results of the study proved that the ratios rose and the project contributed to increasing competences in the project’s participants, improving their crisis resilience. The conclusions of the study allowed us to make recommendations regarding the emergent knowledge strategies about the European Union’s future agenda as well as about knowledge management and university training programs for resilient skills.
Artykuł przedstawia charakterystykę i analizę studiów podyplomowych w Polsce jako formę kształcenia ustawicznego, a także opisuje wyniki badań autora dotyczących organizowania studiów podyplomowych przez uczelnie techniczne. W ramach badań dokonuje się próby określenia czynników warunkujących zgodność oferty edukacyjnej uczelni (lub jednostek naukowych posiadających uprawnienia do ich prowadzenia) z potrzebami rynku pracy, stymulującej rozwój i efektywność gospodarki (realne korzyści dla rozwoju przedsiębiorstw) oraz zaspokojenie dążeń pracodawców i pracowników do podnoszenia kwalifikacji zawodowych. W konkluzjach stwierdza się, że studia podyplomowe będą zajmowały kluczową pozycję na rynku edukacyjnym w ramach LLL.
The paper outlines trends in the context of ongoing changes in the labor market and consequently in the education system. These trends were abstracted from a qualitative study with a sample of 33 business services companies in the form of In-Depth Interviews (IDI). These changes are the result of incredible technological advances and the dynamic development of Artificial Intelligence combined with the possibilities of using Big Data. The changes that confront the education system will not only be profound, but will have a completely changed vector. The most important trends/challenges in this text include: dehumanization, i.e. a kind of renaissance of the axiological and social layer, communitarianism as a panacea for individualism and consumerism, legal totalization, which is a response to the feeling of being threatened in terms of functioning in the unknown world of VUCA, and intergenerationalism, which is grounded not so much in changes in the demographic structure as in their meaning. StreszczenieW artykule przedstawione zostały trendy dotyczące zmian zachodzących na rynku pracy, a w konsekwencji w systemie edukacji. Trendy na rynku pracy zostały zdefiniowane jako konstrukty na podstawie badania jakościowego przeprowadzonego Labour market changes and challenges for education in the VUCA era Zmiany na rynku pracy a wyzwania dla edukacji w czasach VUCA
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