Ergonomic Indicators and Physical Workload Risks in Food Production and Possibilities for Risk Prevention

Importance of innovations for entrepreneurship development – views of entrepreneurs in Kurzeme region

“…Digitalization in the Baltic States is of special attention for politicians and researchers as the reasonable political decisions could be developed based on research result conclusions and suggestions. For successful work organization, it is important to respect also ergonomic aspects (Kalkis, Andza, & Roja, 2020;Kalkis, Graveris, & Roja, 2021). Marketing aspects in innovations in entrepreneurship are becoming more and more important (Batraga et al, 2019) as well as financing aspects (Romanova et al, 2018).…”

Selection of companies for student involvement in work-based learning

“…Efficiency of realisation of college and career readiness program (Detgen et al, 2021) in work-based learning has been recognised as valuable bridge to employment and competitiveness in labour market and scaling of competitive workforce development by using MOOCs to reduce several costs by different stakeholders and narrow the skills gap required by entrepreneurs (Rosendale & Wilkie, 2021;Seimuskane, Vilka, & Brekis, 2017) as an important part of vocational education organisation and realisation in compliance of labour market needs. Researchers in investigation of mediating effects of school engagement between high school on-time completion which sometimes is a problem, career development and technical education realisation (Xing & Gordon, 2021;Batraga et al, 2019;Esmond & Atkins, 2020) stressing the importance of work-based learning where public administration attitude is important (Savrina & Seimuskane, 2018), on analysis of matching vocational training and labour market demands with investigation of the opinion of public administrations on different levels -state and municipality (Buligina & Sloka, 2013), importance of marketing tools (Salkovska et al, 2020;Kalkis, Graveris, & Roja, 2021) and ergonomic aspects (Kalkis, Andza, & Roja, 2021) and perceptions and practical realisation on the role of practical and simulated learning in promoting successful entrepreneurship start and realisation (Lose, 2021) having importance also in work-based learning.…”

Importance of Digital Skills for Competitive Labour Force – Challenges in Work-Based Learning in Latvia

“…Practical and applicable findings are developed on implementation of online work-related safety and health trainings for students and educators during and after the COVID-19 pandemic which has developed several approaches, among them the New Jersey model being widely discussed in academic community (Shendell et al, 2021;Buffardi, 2021) with practical applicability also after the pandemia using well-developed digital sills and technologies useful for studies and training in all stages of education including vocational education. Researchers have found confirmation of the importance of marketing (Batraga et al, 2019) as marketing very often play significant role for attracting stakeholders, finances (Romanova et al, 2018), since without efficient financial regulation work-based learning is not possible to realise, ergonomic aspects (Kalkis et al, 2020(Kalkis et al, , 2021, the role of municipalities (Seimuskane et al, 2017;Savrina & Seimuskane, 2018) as in many cases municipalities have significant role for involving employers and vocation schools for work-based learning and social media: key tools for the future of work-based learning (Toole, 2011). Using work-based and work-applied learning to enhance the intellectual capital of organisations (Garnett et al, 2016;Guillermo et al, 2021) and reflection through web discussions and assessing students in work-based learning (Hulkari & Mahlamäki-Kultanen, 2008), in several fields level of digital skills could be required on different level (Goller, et al, 2021) as well as vocational education in unusual situation of pandemia has introduced and developed needs for digital skills development in realisation of work-based learning (Namjoshi et al, 2021) in several countries having several importance for several aspects of work-based learning (Esmond & Atkins, 2020) also different age groups students involved in vocational education (Evans, 2017) and with online teaching and learning situations analysis and indicated specifics (Cook & Pachler, 2012) pay attention to important essential contribution by all stakeholders involved in work-based learning, each of them having significant role (entrepreneurs, educators, vocational education students and also public administrators) in the implementation of this effective approach in the organisation of vocational education, for competitive labour market relevant skills' development.…”