By combining professional training policies with technological innovations, changes in production and
work organization seek to define strategies that result in the individual’s effective participation in their
production environment. With an integrative intention and by taking into account the processes and
contexts’ changes of the economy sectors, professional training entities should, by adopting a broader
view of action, focus on the development of training initiatives adjusted to society’s real needs and,
specially, adjusted to the local community in which the citizens act. As a result, within a municipal
context’s education strategic project – Local Educational Project – developed between the University
of Coimbra and a Lisbon’s Metropolitan Area County (Sintra), still in a diagnostic phase and by using
the Focus Group technique, some companies and training institutions representatives of the territory
counties were heard about the business characterization and its needs in terms of human resources and
training areas. Assuming that local development calls for the participation of all agents and all people,
based on a holistic preparation, professional education, as a vital contribution to economic, social and
cultural development, becomes a multidimensional phenomenon essentially focused on promoting
action capacities and strengthening the conditions for individual and group participation, in the
processes of integrated and sustained development, based on the realities of people and their
communities.
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