One of the most significant challenge within both advanced and developing society will be in the coming years dealing with the rising importance of knowledge. The latter will be progressively important for everybody and for the society as well. The reason is that the world becomes increasingly complex. F. i. the digiotalization process will ask labor force higher skilled not only in terms of technical but also high cognitive and socio-emotional, ie soft skills
For this reason, the contemporary citizen who lives in a historical-social and cultural context strongly characterized by knowledge must be appropriately prepared and supported to keep up to date with the rapid changes that will take place and which promise to be pressing.
This will mean investing heavily in the growth of human capital and in the promotion and development of each one in terms of skills and innovation.
Starting from these premises, the course aims to provide a picture of what is meant by the knowledge society; what are the transformations underway; in which areas, mainly and in which forms, the knowledge will manifest itself in the overview as measures of a social nature, ie which educational policies, training and which services so far contemporary society has to implement and develop.