Open Letter for a EU "Marshall" Plan for Training and Education To Avoid the Socio-Economic Collapse

Concretely, this EU investment plan and resilience dynamics work in 3 steps:

1. Help companies to keep their staff employed by putting them in remote or local training programs to develop the most advanced skills, innovate and look for new low carbon sources of value(s) (circular economy, short circuits, digital potentials, new forms of utility and contributions, etc.)

2. Help the European citizens, both unemployed and employed (not forgetting students), to develop "future-proof" skills, reshape their professional figures and take initiative toward a more sustainable world.

3. Create a number of training jobs, thus giving immediate work opportunities for unemployed as well as the independent workers who are already vulnerable.

In this scenario, the population remains active, included and empowered rather than waiting, insecure devalued and marginalized (classic unemployment patterns). This approach also fosters pedagogical innovation toward hybrid and future oriented formats, coupling knowledge, creativity, experimentation and the incubation of projects. In this plan, learning is exciting and looks like a laboratory where knowledge is mixed with experience. Besides schools and universities, innovation hubs, third places and cultural centers can develop such training offers. Many of them already do and often pioneer in developing knowledge commons. Whether in the shape of prototypes, start-ups, associations, platforms, collaborative projects or ad hoc events, these projects will become the renaissance engine, slowly growing while the covid-19 is being sorted. The design of sustainable and innovative economic models comes with relevant prototypes.

This soon buoyant societal dynamics will give birth to a new structural and circular immaterial, knowledge and creativity-based economy, converging toward the Green New Deal, fully compatible with core EU emancipatory and educational values, and becoming a new collective future purpose. With this strategy, the EU can renew its political economy and become again a future promise for the young generations, and for all.

More pragmatically, we are convinced that the recovery cannot happen by itself and that a mass investment in future-oriented training will reduce unemployment more rapidly in time and numbers. Such an approach will ultimately be more "profitable" for public finances, not even counting the additional climate and citizen benefits, European autonomy gain, and the construction of new knowledge commons for a shared prosperity.
A rapid implementation and distribution of funds could be done via digital platforms (at EU or regional levels) to match training offers and demands, and guarantee that the investment leads to local jobs.

Thank you for your attention, Raphaële Bidault-Waddington, founder of LIID Future Lab, Paris, liid.fr, rbw@liid.fr In collaboration with Marie-Hélène Caillol, president of LEAP Future Think Tank, Paris. mhcaillol@leap2040.eu and Marianne Ranke-Cormier, Franck Biancheri Network and president of #CitizensRoute, France.

With the support of a growing EU Resilience Collective. Please sign to join forces and make it happen: - Daniel Amesz, president of AEGEE European Student's Forum, Belgium. - Stéphanie Ampart, fairy activist for So Good Media, HiFlow Geneva and Synergie Family, France. - Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, Belgium. - José María Compagni Morales, Docensas SL, U, Spain. - Marie-Pierre Dequier, co-founder of CollectivZ and France Apprenante, France. - Uffe Elbaek, founder of the KaosPilot School and the Alternative, Denmark. - Antonino Galloni, economist, president of Centro Studi Monetari, Italy. - Anne Kjaer Bathel, CEO and Co-founder of ReDI, European Young Leaders (EYL) Network, Germany. - Dan Luca, VP Strategic Innovation of EURACTIV group, and Associate professor at SNSPA, Bucharest, Roumania. - Marco Moiso, vice-president of thr Movimiento Roosevelt, Italy, UK, France. - Cédric du Monceau, 1st Substitute in the Belgian European Parliament cdH/EPP, Belgium. - Harald Neidhardt, CEO and Curator, Futur/io Institute, Germany. - Roberto Peron, Researcher, IAPS-INAF, Director of University and Research Dept, Movimento Roosevelt, Italy. - Eudald Parera Riera, Corporate Director of Training, FERRER, Spain. - Claire Souvigné, director of Bachelor, American BBA & MSc /MBA programs, INSEEC Group, France. - Gavin Starks, founder of Dgen, and previously the Open Data Institute, UK. - Astrid Szogs, Regionalmanagement Northern Hesse, MoWiN network and New Club of Paris, Germany. - Adrian Taylor, Foresight to Strategy for Sustainability and Security in Governance (4Sing), Germany. - Wim Veen, Em. Professor, Delf University of Technology, and founder of allyoucanlearn.com, Netherland.

https://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/se-former-ensemble-pour-un-veritable-green-new-deal-843756.html & https://medium.com/@rbidaultwaddington/covid-19-an-economic-resilience-strategy-via-training-and-creativity-fffcd04b50f6