Project aim
DIGIFOF proposes an organizational platform where HEIs, enterprises and training institutions come together to develop skill profiles, trainings and teaching concepts as well as materials for different FoF-design aspects. The platform is completed by laboratories, which provide educational and experimental environments, where aspects of FoF can be taught practically or experimented with. They will be equipped with a variety of open source tools suitable to the FoF-aspects.
Project objectives
- Create an industry-academia cooperation network, i.e. the FoF Design Competence Network, to foster international cooperation and knowledge transfer
- Jointly develop innovative multidisciplinary teaching and training materials to provide job-relevant and high-quality education for students and professionals
- Realize vocational and initial training programs/curricula using a problem-based learning approach
- Jointly develop design/modelling tool(s) for FoF for training/learning and experimentation purposes
- Populate a digital library with online learning materials, case studies, lecture material, tutorials, and webinars in order to disseminate the topic and project results as widely and as sustainable as possible
- Establish OMiLAB4FoFs, virtual and/or physical, equipped with tools and functionalities for ICT-based teaching/learning of FoF-design
- Enable work and training experiences through industrial and university placements in order to provide students with real-life working experience and also facilitate enterprises access to promising candidates
- Realize joint academic/company lecturing, tutoring and supervision for students to be able to work scientifically on real-world problems
- Test the materials and tools developed in an international summer school and foster uptake by different disciplines
- Develop and test a vocational training program for employees in the manufacturing sector dealing with aspects of FoF so as to create value added for the trainees as well as the enterprises
- Develop formal certificates at local level as well as a joint open badge certificate for vocational trainings which will formally document competences and to improve holders’ position in the job market
- Jointly develop a guideline for an industry-academia Master program in FoF-Design in order to to innovate curricula and make the participants HEIs more attractive to their stakeholders