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Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) is an initiative of the European Union that provides resources for addressing urban challenges, by means of innovative projects and local consortia. Aveiro was one of the 22 cities selected among 184 applicants, with the project Aveiro STEAM City, becoming the first Portuguese city with an approved UIA initiative.

The project Aveiro STEAM City aims to promote the adoption of new technologies in the public domain, fostering the digital opportunities, while promoting the development of STEAM competences (as for, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) in order to increase the value generated by each job, by means of digital transformation in a renewed economic context. 

Under the scope of the project Aveiro STEAM City, several partners, including the University of Aveiro, Inova-Ria – Association of Companies for an Innovation Network in Aveiro, and the Urban Municipal Authority, are responsible for thejoint conduction of the activities projected for the Aveiro Labour Observatory whose primary goal is to assess the qualification needs associated with the digital transformation of jobs and work contexts in Aveiro.

The Labour Observatory will be a key source of information for local stakeholders and citizens, supporting decision making and the formulation of effective strategies for the digital transformation. In the - fast approaching - future, the role of humans and automation will be increasingly updated and intertwined, and therefore will create new qualification and requalification needs. It is imperative to anticipate the demands that need to be addressed quickly.

This is the context for the work and the contributions that are expected from the Labour Observatory. Under the driving goal of identifying priorities for the qualification and requalification in Aveiro, the Observatory aims at creating methodologies and routines for monitoring and interacting with the local actors, with the purpose of developing knowledge about the future of work, while disseminating information to citizens, companies and to local the ecosystem for education and training..