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Future Skills are competences that allow individuals to solve complex problems in highly emergent contexts of action in a self-organised way and enable them to act (successfully). They are based on cognitive, motivational, volitional and social resources, are value-based and can be acquired in a learning process.

Starting point for the research on Future Skills reported in this paper is an analysis of factors which influence our lives, the way we work and live, learn and develop. Such descriptions, by dealing with the future, carry a certain degree of vagueness, while being as precise as possible in capturing aspects that can be seen as influencing factors for the future: future ways of living, future ways of work, future ways of learning, etc. Analyzing the currently existing papers on important skills and abilities for the future work life, at least two converging primary factors crystallize:

• Increasingly fast technological advancements and their effects on all spheres of our lives, work and societies lead to an excess of information and options.
• Increased global cooperation, exchange and communication are no longer an option but a necessary ingredient of every process of society, work and life.

The NextSkills studies show that a veritable turn away from specialist knowledge and towards Future Skills can be observed. In times of global networked organizations and steadily accelerating product cycles, the prevailing model of qualification for future jobs seems debatable.