Challenges to the Future of Employment in the Automotive Industry 06/11/2018

Prof. Joana Mendonça, director of the Laboratory of Technology Management and Policy at IN+, will be one of the speakers at the conference "The Challenges to the Future of Employment in the Automotive Industry" that will take place on November 9 at the Mangualde City Hall Auditorium.

Organized by the Mangualde City Council, the event brings together some of the best national specialists in the field of mobility and proposes the analysis and discussion of the best strategies to ensure that national workers will be prepared for the challenges of digitization, automation and alternative energy sources.

Framed in the European Vocational Training Week, the event is part of the strategy to think and anticipate the challenges of the sector, which is in the EU, 7% of European GDP and 12 million jobs, while in Portugal, comprises 5% of GDP and about 230 companies and 51.000 jobs.