On
October 12th- 13th, 2016, representatives of
several European companies, including industries, research centers
and universities, met in Italy to give the official start to
DA.RE., the project cofunded by Erasmus+ programme promoted by the
European Commission.
Big Data
and excellence in training, employment growth and jobs of the
future. These are the issues addressed by DA.RE., the project that
straddles the new paradigm of knowledge: in a world where the
digital revolution walks side by side to the training and
employment revolution, the future of the work is more and more
knowledge and less and less factory.
In the
last decade, the amount of available data grew exponentially,
introducing the concept of Big Data. This term defines the
complex flux of data, continuously produced by many technological
agents: social media, Internet of Things, transaction-based data,
increasing amounts of sensors, machine-to-machine interaction, RFID
tags, smart meters.
The
demand for data experts, namely Data Scientist, has grown
twelve-fold over the last twenty years. The Economist has even
labeled it as the “sexiest job of the 21st century”.
Big
Data, considered as the fourth paradigm of science, represents a
valuable resource that, just like oil did in the wake of 1900, is
going to drive economies in the next century.
However,
finding trained professionals, capable of transforming huge
datasets into significant information, seems to be quite difficult
for enterprises. The good news is that this apparent issue opens up
countless possibilities for employment.
DA.RE.
project intends to give a significant contribution in the reform of
teaching and governance, bridging the gap between HEIs and the
business sector, in order to enhance the functioning of the
“knowledge triangle”.
