(Adnkronos) - Le competenze STEM sono sempre più importanti per la competitività dell’Ue, ma in tutto il “vecchio continente” solo il 26,6% degli studenti è iscritto a percorsi di educazione terziaria in ambito tecnico-scientifico. È quanto emerge dal report “Osservatorio STEM 2024 - Empowering the multiple transitions through STEM skills”. Si tratta dello studio condotto da Fondazione Deloitte e dal Public Policy Program di Deloitte che dal 2020 analizza il contesto formativo tecnico-scientifico in Italia e Europa e indaga gli orientamenti di studenti e giovani lavoratori, università e aziende con l’obiettivo d’individuare le principali barriere che ostacolano l’accesso all’educazione in ambito STEM e le possibili leve di cambiamento utili a superarle. La terza edizione evidenzia il ruolo delle discipline STEM nel fornire le competenze necessarie per una transizione equa e sostenibile ed affrontare le grandi sfide del presente e del futuro.
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00:00The STEM competences are increasingly important for the competitiveness of the UEE, but in the entire Old Continent, only 26.6% of students are enrolled in tertiary education courses in the technical-scientific field.
00:17This is what emerges from the report Observatorio STEM 2024, Empowering the Multiple Transition Through STEM Skills.
00:24The study, carried out by the Deloitte Foundation and the Deloitte Public Policy Programme, is based on over 11,000 interviews with young people and companies in 10 UEE countries.
00:34This year, the title includes the theme of the energy and digital transition, because it has emerged as the contribution of STEM subjects and will be fundamental to face these challenges,
00:47not only on the part of companies, but also on the part of institutions and on the part of the impact that the entire society and the systems of the countries involved will have and will benefit from a greater relationship of STEM skills.
01:00A company out of two has difficulty finding STEM resources, the shortage is particularly acute in some strategic areas, such as ICT.
01:08Students enrolled in this sub-set represent only 19.5% of the total STEM and, among these, women are only 20.3%.
01:18In STEM subjects, the gender gap is still strongly marked, I must say, especially in the IT part, so ICT and engineering still.
01:29In fact, it would be necessary to act from when the boys are very young, even from elementary school, because scientific studies have now shown that it is a bit the difference of gender, you begin to develop at that age.
01:46The role of the family remains fundamental for all students, but it is particularly significant for those who choose technical-scientific studies.
01:54The structural shortcomings we have encountered require a synergistic and coordinated action of all employees of the educational system, from universities, institutions to companies, but also the third sector, especially families.
02:09Only in this way can an effective action be proposed. There are cultural obstacles that, for example, as regards the evidence of the relationship, in one case out of two, lead young people to believe that they do not undertake educational and professional paths of STEM because they consider them too complex or simply do not feel comfortable.
02:30From the study, it emerges that, according to young workers, the sectors in which STEM can make a greater contribution are science, health and medicine for 43%, energy autonomy for 38% and artificial intelligence and machine learning for 32%.