About
MISCE is focused on improving the acquisition of competences in different branch of engineering degrees by developing standardized material and good practices for practical classes.
The identification of the professional competences to be improved will involve professors, students and professional. Following, the devices and the teaching material will be designed by the mechatronics partners. This stage is an iterative process which require both, reengineering tasks and monitoring the level of competences acquisition.
The standardized teaching material will be shared by digital repositories to diffuse the results of the project. Finally, a VET Competences Network will be created which allows to encourage the use and improvement of standardized material for competences acquisition
The consortium
Priorities
- According to the Global Trends to 2030: Can the EU meet the challenges ahead? The European Strategy and Policy Analysis System Report, Europe will be the oldest region in the world. While investment in robotics, automation and new technologies related to mechatronics offer the opportunity to re-shore manufacturing in Europe, a lack of skilled individuals and talents will create a bottleneck in this process.
- In the last decades European Union makes efforts to close the gender gap, we can see some improvement but in the engineering disciplines at universities the situation is not yet so optimistic. As an example, focusing on the universities involved in the project proposal, female students represent only 15.5% (in academic year 2017/2018) from all students at School of Industrial and Aerospace Engineering of Toledo (Spain) but the level of woman at University of Cagliari (Italy) in engineering, manufacturing and construction study is higher, 32.2% in bachelor degree and 37.1%. in master degree. An additional aim of the project is to attract women's participation in STEM, especially in the area of engineering - mechatronics which is considered "famous" for the lack of female students. The project activities will be focused on the exchange of good practices of female students and educators in research and education (project groups of three of participating universities are led by female professors) to attract their involvement. Thanks to the dissemination of the project results, specific accessible activities and attractive activities for women in the project will increase their interest in studying mechatronics.
- This project also aims at improving the digital competences in engineering areas with the new educational approach developed during the project. In addition, this proposal has been projected under the umbrella of digital skills. The main collaborations, competences improvement, designs and devices, or the especific documentation will use digital technology and therefore contributes to the development of digital readiness, resilience and capacity.
Topics
- Digital skills and competences
- Development of training courses
- Key competences development
Objectives
- Strengthening partnerships and exchanging good practices in mechatronics engineering
- Increasing digital upskilling of European professionals to build the competencies needed to keep the pace of fast-paced digital technology development
- Closing gender gap in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
- Boosting sustainable economic growth and competitiveness by reinforcing the innovation capacity
- The integration of the Knowledge Triangle