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I think it is missing.

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The lack of skill gap is due to the demand for new skills is bigger than the existing supply and demographic changes in Europe and restructuring of specific sectors.

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STEM skills are unfortunately missing all over the world. In school, we teach everything, but imagination and ability to act are missing.

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The graph shows a lack of STEM skills in Europe.
This lack is due, I consider the following factors:
- It has been a time when industry has fallen a lot (since 1990), people with STEM skills have hardly found a job.
- Most have targeted other sectors of activity.
- Young people do not want to attend classes and then not find a job.
When demand for jobs in a given field exists and wages are good, the difficulty of recruiting qualified staff will no longer be a problem.

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The situation is different in each country. There is countries with STEM careers shortage like Germany or Great Britain, and there is other countries with STEM careers plenty, like Spain.
The final situation is that there is not enough STEM careers skills in Europe, and I propose a double solution: geographical mobility and to design programs and courses to encourage STEM careers like this.

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I´m not sure, but I might say that the first problem could be the difference between the salary that a high-skilled employee wants to earn and what the employer wants to pay him.
In addition, nowadays there are a lot of new professions that didn´t exist a few years ago, and we aren´t prepared yet.

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In my view, there is a great lack of STEM skills in Spain, due to the decontextualization of teaching in the real world. Many times, students      don´t understand the importance and application of scientific contents, the they just study them memoristically, without developing skills and competences essential for their future. A change in the methodologies of education is necessary, to make the contents more practical, and promote the development of STEM skills.

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Yes, in Spain there is a lack of STEM skills because of the students don't know what can they do with what they are studing.

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I believe that in Italy there is a lack of STEM skills. The main reason is the low spread of scientific subjects and the traditional teaching method. Teachers should have more opportunities to upgrade to ensure multidisciplinary training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Only in this way will it be possible to train skilled young people who can enter the workplace more easily.

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Firstly, I agree that the data shown on STEM skills shortage might not be fully  relevant due to various barriers. If there is a lack of STEM skills I think it is because of the lack of interest of students to this areas. It is important to provide proper learning environment and teaching methods to engage more students to STEM. We need to increase the modern methods and make possible that students understand the importance of STEM by teaching the curriuclum more related to real life and based on problem solving and critical thinking.

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I was not really aware about the skill shortage that Europe is living nowadays. Reading the survey one can understand how less students engage themselves in studying subjects related to STEM and that less careers start in these fields. I think that for what may concerns Italy, the real problem regards the chances of getting a satisfying jobs and matches the studies that one has done. The job market doesn't offer a lot of opportunities, I'm afraid and also few and fewer money are given by the governments to research projects in our university. This can be one of the main causes related to the Italian situation.

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I not agree with there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. From the articles reported, the situation is very different depending on the country. In this case, the average value, is not relevant because in a global EU market the local solution should be founded. Maybe geographical barriers and low pay can explained the employers' difficulties. Many people prefer do not work that work far from their family environment. In addition, many time the employers require experience workers and young people with STEM skills haven't it.

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I agree that quite often the shortages might just be at local or

regional level. Not everybody with good skills is ready to move to another region or country for a job. Some skilled people still stay where their roots are and then have problems with finding a job suitable for their abilities. I also see that every year some students who could be able to continue studies in STEM choose other fields because they love sports or arts or think that social sciences are easier.

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It seems that it is much easier to talk and discuss various issues rather than understand and do them . However, STEM is exact and you also have to acquire facts and deal with them. As already mentioned by some of the other participants, this is not that easy and many students go for what is easier and more popular .

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Students avoid choosing STEM because they dont want any challenge. If they could see the relations between what they learn and create something they would be more interested

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I think that in Italy there is a lack of STEM skills, more than in other European countries. The reasons are many: first of all the teachers' training.
Teachers should use new metodologies based on new tecnologies, but sometimes they can't use them due to technical problems or due to lack of time. New metodologies need much more time to be applied, and it's a challenge when you have only three hours per week and many subjects to deal with. Curricula should be reviewed.

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I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. In my opinion, a reason for that coul be the distance between all the things that students must know in school and things that they need out of the classroom

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I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. In my opinion, a reason for that coul be the distance between all the things that students must know in school and things that they need out of the classroom

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I have visited many schools across the EU and found out that most of the students choosing STEM subjects as major are migrant students. Since they find STEM subjects are tough and consider it takes much more time to get a STEM career than other soft subjects. That is why the doctors and engineers working in EU countries are the nationals of other countries.

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Mila,SPAIN
As a teacher,I think it is essential for new opportunities in todays´s society. Teachers and learners have to change their minds

in order to improve their own process

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If I speak for Turkey because I do not have the capability to speak for all Europe, unfortunately there is a lack of stem skills. In my opinion the reasons could be the attitudes towards to some diciplines and the disconnection among shareholders- knowledge and experience. In our general education system, we have all the information in our mind but it comes to use them we fail sometimes. Unclear definitions of some jobs cause the candidates get confused about their capacities.

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1. In my opinion, there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe.
2. n some countries students are not properly educated in scientific subjects. Furthermore, they aren't taught the importance of science, maths, engineering and technology in their lives.

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1)Yes, is a lake in STEM, because more people want to have many at the young age,  and don't have interest for they training and competences 

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1)Yes, is a lake in STEM, because more people want to have many at the young age,  and don't have interest for they training and competences 

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2)The main reason are the mass media presentacion of models that have many without tu much learning.
Also the main reason is the lack of STEM in schools.
3) The way for recruiting the employers are sometimes online, and some employers have not the knowledge to apply online at the job

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1. In my opinion there is a lack of STEM skills in schools.
2. This, is in part, due to the way in wich scientific subjects are passed on the students at schools.

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1- In my opinion, it depends on the country we are refering to
. For instance, Spain and Ireland seem that they are not having problems filling STEM vacancies, on the other hand, northen countries such Germany seems to have more dificulties for it.
2- I think that countries with more problems to fill the job offer in STEM careers are the most technological prepared and with better industries, consecuently, they have bigger need for this kind of workers.

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I think the lack of STEM skills reduces the capability to find work. This, is in part, due to the way in which scientific subjects are passed on to students at schools.

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I think that the problem of STEM skills shortage exists, especially in my country. We have a huge gap in education and employment. I observed that the way my son is taught at school or even at the university is almost the same I was taught 25 years ago. But all is rapidly changing. Many graduates have to take extra courses before getting the job in the field they got university degree.

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I think there is a lack of STEM skills worldwide. Mainly because these are new skills that are not integrated in our teaching degrees.

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I truly think that there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe because there is not any kind of connection or communication between the educational and the employment world, what causes this enormous gap when joining the working field.

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In my opinion there is a lack of STEM skills in schools. Methodology and training teachers must be adapted to motivate the students.

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I think there is a STEM career crisis because students do not always fully understand what kind of jobs STEM education can lead them to.  STEM subjects are often perceived as harder by students

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I think there is a STEM career crisis because students do not always fully understand what kind of jobs STEM education can lead them to.  STEM subjects are often perceived as harder by students

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I really think that there's a lack of STEM skills in Europe because there's often a lack of communication between companies/employers and the educational system/schools so it's difficult for students, future workers, to understand the importance of STEM skills.

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In my opinion, the lack exist. Students are not interested in STEM careers. They often choose that don`t include STEM skills. The main reasons are that scientific matters during secondary school are very theorical and that there is not enough communication between schools and Universities, and companies. If European industries face difficulties in finding skilled workers, the union between school and training industries should be stronger.

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There is a STEM skills in all arround the world

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I think that one reason why there is a lack of STEM skills could be the difficulties that students have in middle school with maths and physics what provokes them not to study science grades.

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It seems clear that there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. I think that the job market is changing too fast and maybe the society cannot cope with these changes. There is not enough peolple prepared to cover those posts that require STEM skills

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There is a lack of stem profiles in europe because these profiles are not valued

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I think that there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. The main reason is that we are making "instant" generations who aren't allowed to think freely.

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1- I feel there is probably a lack of STEM skills in the general population.
2- I feel that in the past teaching STEM would have been a lot easier when technology was simpler and more open. A teacher could pull something apart to show how it worked. Today, most technology students will be familiar with is a "black box" with no possible way to investigate how it works. Plus with it being more complicated, teachers also struggle to understand and explain how technology works. As a result, one of the main ways to ignite a passion in STEM has dried up.

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Yes, probably there is a lack of Stem skills in Europe.
The students of today, in general, are not prepared for thinkinng in a critical and individual way.
They are still memorizing everything without investigating. We as teacher from infant education should promote active methodologies in our clasrooms.

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I think that in Italian school there is a lack of STEM skills, not only because curricula are inadequate but also because many teachers use "old methods", like a frontal lesson, and not stimulate students to critical thinking or to be curious about knowledge. But in Italy there is also a big problem in creating jobs.

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Yes! In Italy, I'm sure.
Here, in my country, because Science and Tecnology are less "popular"  at school, expecially in Primary. In this way, students become familiar with this kind of subjects only when they arrive at high school.
I think it's important create a list for workers where they can share their knowledge and abilities; so it should be easier to find employees for the companies.

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Skilled workers are needed to digitization that threaten to destroy many of the existing jobs and, thankfully, announce the creation of new ones.
In my country Employeers have problems to find workers with STEM skills because only 7% of Spanish students are studying science and technology,

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Yes, I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. Because science, technology and the world change every passing day. And, the human skills needed are also changing.

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I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Italy.  Young students are very interested in science but schools have to collaborate with employers to design new curricula.

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From my point of view, there isn´t a lack of STEM skills, at least in Spain. Students are concerned about the importance of these careers. They have a high level of technological and scientific skills. The problem is unemployment and that the Government is not interested on this. Young people have to emigrate to develop their work.

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I think there is a big lack of STEM skills especially in Italy and among women.
Probably it is due to curricula and study programmes not apt to stimulate and increase interest in STEM

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Yes, there is a big lack of STEM skills, at least in Spain.
Pupils see STEM as hard and not economically profitables, and they and their parents prefer more "common" carreers such as economics and laws.

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For me the lack exist. Like i read in some post, students are not really interested in topics related to science. But i also believe that there should be a huge work done with the teachers and the methodology applied. We have to motivate and enhanced the STEM teaching approach

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I believe overall in Europe there is a lack of STEM skills but this is not true for individual countries. The main cause for the STEM skills gap is lack of interest and/or lack of the ability to study in the STEM areas. STEM subjects are very difficult to access due to high entry requirements and incredible challenging workloads. Also many students decide not to study at university or the equivalent as they are uneducated about about the help and support provided with paying for university, which is one of their main concerns, I have found.

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I believe overall in Europe there is a lack of STEM skills but this is not true for individual countries. The main cause for the STEM skills gap is lack of interest and/or lack of the ability to study in the STEM areas. STEM subjects are very difficult to access due to high entry requirements and incredible challenging workloads. Also many students decide not to study at university or the equivalent as they are uneducated about about the help and support provided with paying for university, which is one of their main concerns, I have found.

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In my opinion, there is an important lack of STEM skills in Eurepo, even according to the surveys, it is not the same in the different countries.
It is very important for students to get the contents they study closer making them real, and it is not what usually happens.

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According to the results of the surveys, we can asumen that there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. Nevertheless, this fact has not the same incidency in every countries. Depending on the country, this lack of STEM skills is much more important. As far as I am concerned,  the main reason for this fact, and the main reason why employers find difficulties to employ some determined workers is the lack of communication between goverments and companies to build the education programmes. Today´s world and society are changing daily, and school programmes should be prepared for this challenge, and, in my opinion, the only way to achieve this is a good communication and teamwork between goverments, companies and teachers, to define the educational real needs of our society.

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According to the surveys there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe. The main reason is that there is not substancial communication between schools and firms in regard of the needs of the market. The demographic changes make the matter worse, as a high demand for particular professionals may appear when the educational system has not made steps to provide such eployees.

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Yes there is .Because there is lack of triggering the students to think critically.Most of the lessons are exam based which leads the ss not learn sometihng to use it in real life but in exams only and never use it again.The problem is we cannot properly teach the students teach how to use an information in real life.They just want to learn sth just if it is asked in an exam.Wheter they will use it or not is not important.
Actually this is not their fault because we direct them what to learn but is that thing something they can use in other situations ?The contexts shouldn't be so compicated

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Yes , there is a lack of STEM skills as schools are target driven towards entering grades that push children into university that most of the time the degrees of study are not realistic and dont pertain to the outside world of  work . Leaving employers facing not being able to employ or find skilled people for the vacancies .

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The economy is based in the develop of solutions for our life, STEM have been introducing in the school program to promove this skills in order to improve that from childhood, the kids could notice the importance to create solutions in their enviroment. With Projects since Kindergarden they could have bases and they could found funny and interesting this areas.

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I think there is a STEM skills shortage in Europe and it is due to the dichotomous approach to STEM disciplines, meaning that what you study is completely disconnected from reality. That's why I started using for my teaching with special education students a cartoon about STEM disciplines, Blaze and the Monster Machines, in order to give an idea of the concept and then adding formulas and mechanisms.

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Yes, I think there is a STEM skills shortage in Europe, as can be seen from scientific collected data. Also some geographical barriers can be considered at least in Italy where I teach. The main reason is probably a lack of interest in scientific matters during secondary school due to the difficulty of theoretical arguments and the uninteresting perception of scientific fact as they are presented. The ratio between scientific-oriented students at the beginning of secondary school and the number of students who choose a scientific career is drastic; that’s why I think more attention is needed to encourage and sustain young students.

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I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe (but also many excellence) because the schooling is often too theoretical or far from the needs of companies. In Italy, the salary of a researcher is not adequate, the time to make a career is very long and this does not involve and motivate students.

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Yes, I think there is lack of STEM skills in Europe. This is the result of the belief that education in the field of STEM is difficult and the students often choose studies which didn’t include STEM skills. In Macedonia, the learning is focused on memorizing facts and not on developing students' creativity and critical thinking.

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I think that STEM skills
shortages is a fact in Europe, according to study and survey.
Nowadays students have the feeling that STEM skills are not so easy to built up. At the beginning (in primary school career) subjects, as Math and Science, are exiting for children: they are happy when they are able to solve problems and when they find information about nature and animal. Later on they change their enthusiasm on STEM exactly when they discover that the subjects are more difficult than they though.
School action can modify this process and help students to face the job market.

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In the current economic crisis situation, featured by high unemployment, data proving skills shortage and recruitment bottleneck become serious concerns. In my opinion, the causes underlying this reality reamin still unclear and even the world economic, politic and social evolution. As a result, proposing useful solution is difficult as well, but necessary. I believe it's urgent to improve communication between companies and education institutions to adapt young skills to the real job market necessities. More public and private investment in I+D are also required. Finally, to me, at schools the main challenge is to make STEM attrative to our students, reinforcing their self-confidence to enroll a STEM career. Moreover, a motivating STEM eduction is crucial for all the students, independently the career they decide to develop, because as citizens all the will need science knowledge and analytical thinking to make responsible decisions to improve the world standards of livings.

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I think that it is a huge problem missing STEM skills nowadays. Students are more attractive by other subject or professions that do not included STEM. Maybe the problem is in the way that teaching is performed. Educational system in Macedonia is more concentrated in learning facts not developing sills. Our external exams are in that direction too. That's the reason why students and teachers do not pay much attention on developing skills and attitudes.

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I had heard hat there is a STEM skill shortage prior to starting this MOOC. In Scotland the number of students selecting STEM subjects in Senior Phase has been in steady decline for a few years now and this must lead to knock on gaps in STEM careers. I know a few engineers, computer technicians and surveyors and they're all from other European countries or further afield. Certainly in Scotland the opportunities are not being taken by the local population. Are STEM careers seen to be too challenging by young people?

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I did not have a clear idea about the problem before reading the articles, and after I have the impression nobody knows exactly what is the answer. I think is a complex issue. I only know some aspects the la reality of my country. One one hand statistics show that companies have problems to cover STEM jobs and on the other young STEM graduates have to move aboard to pursuit their carriers. Then, perhaps, it is not only one thing what is nor working. I highlight one idea from the articles: organizations should make of talent management procedures a priority and employers should cooperate with Universities.

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According to the graphs there is a lack of the STEM skills demanded by companies in most EU countries. The main reason is that there is not enough communication and agreements between schools and universities and companies. They should talk and see what points in common could benefit both sectors and would benefit society and individuals.It should be analyzed carefully what is happening in some countries (Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands) so that very good STEM skilled young can find a suitable job and suitable salary.

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Companies should invest themselves in staff training for more specific skills

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1.- I don't think there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe.
3.- I think that the problem, at least in Spain, is the opposite: there are young people who have finished their STEM career but there aren't enough STEM jobs because of the lack of the promotion of I+D by Government and employers.

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I don´t really think there is a problem with STEM skills, at least in Spain. Employers want to hire experience workers and not to pay them a fair salary and young people don´t have opportunities to achieve experience in a proper way. Currently, not paid work-experience in educational program or grants replace, in many cases, well-paid workers. Perhaps, it is not only an educational problem.

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1. Yes
2. I think that exists a lack of STEM skills between the education and companies.

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Yes.I think the current school is quite out of touch with the students' reality. Both the programs and the ongoing methodologies are alienating STEM students, at least in my country.

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I think that it is a huge problem missing STEM skills nowadays. Students are more attractive by other subject or professions that do not included STEM. Maybe the problem is in the way that teaching is performed. Educational system in Macedonia is more concentrated in learning facts not developing sills. Our external exams are in that direction too. That's the reason why students and teachers do not pay much attention on developing skills and attitudes.

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1.Yes, There is.
2. Its reason is apparently science education in schools. We do not think to integrate practicals and labs with theory in our science lessons as teachers. But, practicals and theory are not be thought separately.

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1) I can only answer for the situation in Croaatia, and yes, I think there is a lack of STEM skills
2) The main reason is educational system, which do not follow the trends in "real life", and also the way people are raised (not to be proactive at all)

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1) yes there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe
2) on my opinion the lack is due to the educational system that is not changing quick enough to be competitive with the market requirements, that is also due to the education of the teachers itself. You may not expect the person that is well above 50 teaching the science that may be not have changed much, but the approach is not stimulating, so we it is possible that lots of genius minds were lost during such classes

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1) Yes there is.
2) From my point of view the main reason is that there is a lack in between studies and work. It has been teach a lot of theory but this has not been applied to the practice.These could be solved putting in connection the both worlds , studies and work.

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Statistics show that STEM graduates represent a greater share in other fields than STEM fields. According to the demographic change there will be a mismatch between supply and demand of STEM-skilled workforce because of the possible shortage of STEM professionals. STEM job growth is expected to exceed growth in Non-STEM job between 2015 - 2025.

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1) I agree, there is a lack of STEM skills.
2) The main reason is not how we manage the STEM skills in education, but how we manage the education itself. Nowadays it's based on the knowledge and not on the critical thinking and the error-testing learning.
3) Employees are requesting more skilled workers, and they know there is a lack. So there must be an effort in two ways, workers must be trained to do the new skilled jobs, but employees must take care, in all aspects, for these workers. It's the law of supply and demand.

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1) Yes
2) I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Portugal due to the gap between the market skills nedded and the skills that students devolop in the school

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I believe that yes there is a lack of STEM skills in Greece (where I live and I can speak for), mostly because there is no production here, students turn to different study directions and if some study STEM go abroad to work

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1.yes
2. The main reason for that it's too difficult subjects and only theoretical knowlage, we need a practice!

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I do not think there is a lack of STEM skills at least in Italy because of the brain drain we have in these areas, I think rather than abroad, especially in the United States, Japan, Israel, or Scandinavian countries young graduates have more chances of doing a career and doing research.

They are also well paid and gratified.

However, I also think that there is a need a stronger union between high school and training industries. In Italy, in principle this could be possible with the new law on school that provides for the alternation of school-work from the third year high school at age 16, in practice is not having the expected results.

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https://padlet.com/bektas_onurr/64bxjtlys9xy

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Yes. I'm sure there is a lack of STEM skills in Spain because students do not choose science for their studies. Thirty years ago, most students chose science, but now the opposite happens.
I think the main reason for that is that students perceive STEM as difficult and they do not see the advantages for the greater effort.

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1) Yes.
2) The lack of STEM skills known as the STEM skills gap is the result of education policies that are mostly based on learning contents instead of developing competencies based on contents. Teachers can make a difference, but in many countries, like my own, national exams based on traditional school learning do not provide the drive for teachers to work on problem solving and innovation that require time and cannot be looked as time limited tasks.

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1) Yes
2) The link between the educational systems and companies/employers is not strong enough

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In my opinion, if there are people qualified in science but the problem is that they must migrate to other countries to be able to develop their work in their studies. We all know that there have always been fewer students who decide to graduate in science but times are changing and as teachers that is in our hands.

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1. Yes, I think there is.
2. I think that exists a lack of STEM skills between the education and companies

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i think there is lack of STEM skills in Italy because the young people don't study science. They think these studies are too hard

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil 

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil 

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Nowadays we use the internet a lot since watching movies, using for bank payments, shopping and this use is increasing.
Unfortunately not everyone has access to the knowledge and the handling of this tool.
The big concern is privacy on internet purchases, concern about password secrecy, making experts look for new alternatives.
The apps have been a breakthrough, they help in the studies and the mobile games need new demands.
What professional are we looking for?
A professional who knows how to use applications, knows how to use the internet as a way of communicating, selling and buying things and every day people are more dependent on this technology.
I believe that this course enables us to enable young people to start at an early age to use and think in new ways, because in the future this will be the way.

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I think there is enough scientific ability in Italy, but the studies are mostly theoretical, so the universities must be connected with industries to meet their real needs and to know the demands of the labor market.

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1. In my opinion, there is not a lack of STEM skills in Europe. For instance, in Spain, there are many engineers who are forced to emigrate to the rest of Europe.
3. I think that graduates have difficulties to find a job in Spain because there is a lack of investment in the companies and in innovation in industries.

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I think that there is a skill shortages and a skill gaps In the European Union (EU). The main reasons are:
- A shortage of skills may appear in knowledge intensive sectors*, given that the demand for new skills might be bigger than the existing supply.
- Demographic changes can also be a cause of (current and/or anticipated) skill shortages. For example, an expected demographic crisis in European population* is likely to maximize the age dependency ratio of European population, which can result in high demand for particular professionals, such as in the health care sector. A restructuring of specific sectors (accentuated by the economic crisis) might also lead to simultaneous existence of unemployment and skill shortages for specific skills in an economy.

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I think that ther is a lack of STEM skill in Europe because the students think that they have to work too hard to get the degree.

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1. I don't think that there is a lack of stem profesionals- if we take a look on the chart that you have provided, the 40% of the european population have problems to find a suitable job.
3. What I think is that there is a HUGE gap between the university and the current labour market. Universities are not fulfulling their role in providing the students with the right tools to find their appropiate job.
STEM system is not even known in the state universities...

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I think there might be lack of STEM skills  in Europe  because  students  considered that STEM  fields are difficult  to study and salary is not as big as in other fields (economy, law..)And in my country (Croatia) there is lack of jobs  which need STEM skills.

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I think there is a lack of STEM skills in Europe.
In particular, I believe that in Italy, scientific training, especially in higher education, is neglected with respect to humanistic training.

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Many students think that after STEM studies there is a greater chance of finding work but sometimes they are discouraged by the difficulty and length of the study path.
I don't think there's a real lack of STEM skills but surely there is the need to create a serious project of school-state collaboration to better help the students in their education and the firms to find staff with the right skills