CHANGES IN SKILLS AND PROFESSION STRUCTURE AS A CHALLENGE ARISING FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF INDUSTRY 4.0

To strengthen its competitiveness Europe needs new strategies and approaches as proposed by Industry 4.0 initiative. Industry 4.0 technologies promise major impact on economy and society. The main objective of this paper is to find out the impact of Industry 4.0 initiative on skills and profession structure. Following tasks have been specified for the realization of our objective: to identify emerging skills for work 4.0, to find out the impact of Industry 4.0 initiative on threats and opportunities in professions. Research methods used in the paper: theoretical general methods of scientific knowledge - induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis of available bibliographic references, scientific abstraction for generalization of the results.