Empowering Advancement of Wood and Furniture Sector Through Key Digital and Sustainability Competencies/Osnazivanje napretka drvopreradivackog sektora putem kljucnih digitalnih kompetencija i kompetencija odrzivosti

In the context of the growing importance of sustainable development and digitalization, our study examines which are the most important digital and sustainability competencies for wood science and technology graduates. This enabled us to map the development of competencies at the different levels of education across the entire vertical and determine the scope and type of competencies that graduates should have. To achieve this, we conducted surveys among experts and companies within the wood sector. The results underline that expectations placed on the digital and sustainability competencies of graduates for the transition of the sector are very high, which highlights the importance of ensuring that graduates are well equipped to navigate the evolving technological and sustainable landscape, and the importance of designing educational programs to meet both immediate and future needs. In addition, we found differences in stakeholder expectations that indicate a disparate adoption of digital technologies by companies and prioritization of sustainability. We can conclude that lower levels of education should focus primarily on general digital and sustainability competencies to provide a foundation for the subsequent levels of education where students are expected to have more profession-specific competencies. KEYWORDS: key competencies; DigComp, GreenComp; digitalization and sustainability; wood and furniture sector U kontekstu sve vece vaznosti odrzivog razvoja i digitalizacije, ovo je istrazivanje posveceno odredivanju najvaznijih digitalnih kompetencija i kompetencija odrzivosti za diplomante studija drvne znanosti i tehnologije. To nam je omogucilo da mapiramo razvoj kompetencija na razlicitim razinama obrazovanja po cijeloj vertikali te da odredimo opseg i vrstu kompetencija koje diplomanti trebaju usvojiti. Kako bismo to postigli, proveli smo ankete medu strucnjacima i tvrtkama iz drvopreradivackog sektora. Rezultati pokazuju da su ocekivanja vezana za digitalne kompetencije i kompetencije odrzivosti diplomanata za tranziciju sektora vrlo visoka, sto naglasava potrebu da diplomanti budu dobro poduceni za snalazenje u tehnoloskome i odrzivom krajoliku koji se razvija, te istice vaznost osmisljavanja obrazovnog programa za zadovoljenje trenutacnih i buducih potreba. Osim toga, otkrili smo razlike u ocekivanjima sudionika anketa koje upucuju na razlicito prihvacanje digitalnih tehnologija u tvrtkama i davanje prioriteta odrzivosti. Stoga mozemo zakljuciti