Research on Qualified Vocational Training Development in the Context of Digitalization

From a strategic point of view digitalizing the economy in the near future means that it’s necessary, from now on, to change the focus on digital skills because at the moment almost all jobs require some level of digital knowledge from employees. Although digitalization brings a lot of advantages, the vocational education and training cannot be entirely digitalized as qualified vocational development has to maintain its traditional approach in order remain efficient and most importantly attractive. This paper describes the results of a focus group conducted in Mureș County, Romania on the topic of digitalization with the aim to offer an overview image on vocational education and training challenges in the current context.