TELANTO

TELANTO develops and provides a cloud solution that addresses these issues for a much stronger involvement from the European higher education sector, which consists of around 4,000 higher education institutions (HEIs), 19 million students and 1.5 million academics. Talent shortages within companies continue unabated. The working population is declining, forcing employers to select from shrinking talent pools. Technology is evolving quickly, changing the skills needed for jobs and shortening the life cycle of those skills. To address talent shortages today, businesses can not fall short to collaborate with academia and in particular with young future talents. Traditional recruitment practices won't yield the required results, so it is time to harness contemporary employer branding, recruiting and selection practices, that build talent relationships very early in the life of a student. Employers need to foster an open innovation and learning culture within their organizations that encourage employees to support their quest for knowledge and talent transfer from academia. Although the interface between the public-private sector is already highly interactive and productive, the university-business cooperation lags collaborative technologies that equip youth, while in education, with future skills that match labour market demands. TELANTO estimates that providing challenge-based education, which is increasingly international, multidisciplinary and intersectoral, at larger scale, through TELANTO’s Academic Business Network will shorten the school-to-work transition and increase employability for nearly 250.000 students by 2020.