Cooperation and partnership between education and the world of work will be achieved due to the high relevance of the course delivered to young students and junior practitioners in governance, security and social sciences. While all these professions aim to discover patterns in the social world, each of them looks to differently employ them.
Governance and social scientists are employed to:
- discover social dynamics, political trends, consumer patterns
- collect data and provide statistics for the development of informed public policies or
- map the needs of vulnerable groups.
The knowledge of essential big data principles as well as of the technical solutions applicable for their activity would consistently and significantly improve their results and connect them to the requirements of companies, civil society organizations and public institutions that seek to employ experts in the field.
Moreover, a sound knowledge of the ethical and legal aspects of the use of personal data is relevant, as both the state and private institutions are subject to newly imposed constraints and need to keep up to date in the ethical use of new technologies. Alternatively, national security practitioners face a complementary set of requirements and limitations.
On the one hand, they are tasked with the protection of national security and with combating real-time evolving threats to it, abusive use of big data included. On the other hand, they must submit their work to scrupulous oversight by both courts and parliamentary bodies. Thus, improving intelligence practitioners’ knowledge of big data, their use, impact and limitations, would advance and refine the work output of national security practitioners and increase the level of connection between work and education.
Last but not least, it must be emphasized that while the collection, management, correlation and understanding of big data is at the moment the cutting-edge skill required by both public institutions and private employers, it remains rather un-tackled with by the curricula of the social-humanist faculties in Romania. Therefore, the project provides a welcomed and timely opportunity to finetune curricula to answer the requirements of the jobs market.