“We aspire – and it is a decision of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Government as a whole – to put Macedonia and Thrace back on the map of our wider region. To make Thessaloniki a hub of interregional and international cooperation, a center of education and research. To go out dynamically in the world that is coming, the world that is changing speed, rhythms and orientations “, stressed the Deputy Minister of Interior, responsible for Macedonia-Thrace, Mr. Stavros Kalafatis, at the CITY College event held on the occasion of his recent announcement by York University as the European Campus of the British University in Europe, at the Center for Digital Transformation and Digital Skills – Cisco.
He added: “Going through the era of the 4th industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, of new technologies, we have before us new challenges, possibilities and opportunities in the whole range of economic and social activity. The state, education, work, cooperation, communications are digitized. The needs increase and the fields and possibilities of education expand. “Specialized knowledge acquires value”.
As Mr. Kalafatis pointed out: “The government is proceeding with deep and substantial reforms and actions for the education of tomorrow. Reforms and actions aimed mainly at: Upgrading the academic environment. The promotion of the extroversion of the Higher Education Institutions with the possibility of establishing foreign language undergraduate programs. In the development of collaborations with educational institutions abroad. In the best connection of the educational program with the labor market. In the quality upgrade of vocational education, training and lifelong learning. In the upgrading of the public school and the strengthening of the model and experimental schools “.
Stavros Kalafatis underlined that: “Development in the coming years can and must be based on education and knowledge. Thessaloniki and Northern Greece are sending a strong message from tomorrow, which has already become present. The message is highlighted by the choice of international technology giants – such as Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, Team Viewer, Deloitte and Pfizer – to invest in our country and specifically in Thessaloniki “. It is more than certain that the strong alliance built by CITY College on its 30-year journey with the British University of York contributes to this effort. It strengthens the Thessaloniki of Education and Culture, the Thessaloniki of extroversion and development “.
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