1. ‘Eastern Partnership
Youth Forum’
Simonas Gaušas
Visionary Analytics
23rd October 2013, Kaunas
© Visionary Analytics, 2013

2. Contents
• Who are we?
• Paradigm shift in learning
• ICT as a key shift enabler
• Aim of learning – importance of character

3. Visionary Analytics – who we are
• Research-based policy advisory consultants, founded in March 2012
by 3 people with burning interest in…
• …EDUCATION:
– Assessment of current and future demand for critical competences in
the engineering industry in Lithuania
– European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training project
‘Mid-term skills supply and demand forecast’
• …INNOVATION:
– Supporting European Commission/ Lithuanian government in
preparation of smart specialisation strategies
– Assessment of opportunities for Lithuania to participate in international
research infrastructures

4. Introduction to the Study and its Methods
•
Importance of grit. How to train it.

5. Paradigm shift in learning

6. Introduction to the Study and its Methods
Source: IPTS (2011). The Future of
Learning: Preparing for Change

7. GRIT/ PERSISTENCE (W. Mischel and
Stanford marshmallow experiment)

8. In search for FLOW (M. Csikszentmihalyi)
Challenges
FLOW
Frustration
Boredom
Competences

9. Thank You
Simonas Gaušas
Visionary Analytics
Simonas@visionary.lt
© Visionary Analytics, 2013