SMART SKILLS

The SMART skills 4.0 project addresses the transversal skills shortage with respect to the capacity to think autonomously and creatively, to manage complex information, use resources, including digital ones, smartly, communicate effectively and innovatively, integrating digital progress into the new Business 4.0 models.

Addressing horizontal skills mismatches and cross-cutting issues (i.e. sustainable development and socio-economic disadvantages of participants) and fully supports the acquisition of forward-looking transferable skills in different sectors relevant to sustainability.

The Project also scope to encourage transnational cooperation and innovation to better align education with the complex skills requirements generated by the integration of digital progress into new business trends 4.0.

Increasing employment, adopting a sustainable educational culture that facilitates behavioral change for participants, becomes real drivers of change, opts for civic and responsible behavior and sustainable career decisions.

More specific the objectives of the project are :

1. Designing future-oriented Curricula to drive innovation in business 4.0 by engaging transnational stakeholders from various sustainability-relevant sectors, and HE learners in intercultural knowledge exchanges and experience sharing.
2. Unlocking the transformative potential of education and training through developing modern learning, teaching, and training resources in line with Business 4.0 trends, and exchanging of good practices
3. Deploying the Educational Initiative to support the development of forward-thinking skills required by business 4.0 through cross-border exchange, making the most use of ICT-based and collaborative learning practices, engaging learners in blended learning sessions.
4. Scaling-up the Educational Initiative in business 4.0 by promoting synergies between education, training, and labor market, and engaging a multicultural frame of transnational stakeholders (students, teachers, practitioners, educators, managers, and entrepreneurs)

   Project Τitle: Transnational cooperation initiative fostering developing forward thinking skills of students, teachers and workforce in sustainability-relevant sectors posed by Business 4.0 trends through innovation in Business& Engineering education and training, “SMART skills 4.0”

   Project Duration: 01/10/2020- 31/08/2023

   Project URL: https://www.smartskills4.com/

   Project Framework & Funding: Erasmus + Program, 50359,00 Euro

   Scientific coordinator (UNIWA): Alina Hyz

   Consortium – Partners:

   P1 – (Coordinator) University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania
   P2. – S.C. Avantera srl, Romania
   P3 – S.C. INFOR ELEA, Italy
   P4 – ACADEMIA, Slovenia
   P5 – Kaunas Faculty – Vilnius University, Lithuania
   P6 – University of West Attica, Greece 

   Research Publications / Results / Patents

   – 1 publication

   – 150 HE students and 40 practitioners involved in blended learning sessions

   – 70 HE learners (students, teachers, and trainers) engaged in transnational learning activities

   – 48 HE teaching staff trained to design and deliver future-oriented curricula

   – 150 transnational stakeholders involved in knowledge exchange for innovation in education