The State of Baden-Wuerttemberg fosters learning factories in VET schools where students can learn digital competences. The Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) has held meetings with contact persons of the learning factories and the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affaires about EXAM4.0, and discussed possibilities of cooperation. The goal is to integrate the learning factories into the Cooperative…
The Basque TV channel Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB, Basque Radio-television, Basque Country’s public broadcast service) included a news report about the innovative aspects of the EXAM 4.0 project on 5 and 6 December 2020 (channels 1 and 2, respectively). The report features An interview with Iñigo Araiztegui (EXAM 4.0 coordinator, TKNIKA), who pointed out that…
Erik Fagerberg is a recently graduated engineer within production technology working at Curt Nicolin High School as a Project Manager and Teacher. He is currently developing a mobile teaching environment intended to be used by VET/HVET centres all over Europe. As a teacher, he educates high school engineers within production technology and design, and product…
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020, the Centres of Vocational Excellence worskhop was jointly organised by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), DG EMPL, PEEP and EARLALL (EXAM 4.0 partner) in the context of the European Week of Regions & Cities 2020. The event was aimed at analysing how platforms of centres of vocational excellence (CoVEs) contribute to create skills ecosystems…
AFM CLUSTER is the organisation that represents advanced and digital manufacturing interests in Spain. It comprises five industrial associations and groups more than 500 companies with 16,500 employees and a turnover of 3,000 million euros. Josu Riezu is currently responsible for the organisation’s People Development Area. He has worked at AFM CLUSTER for 20 years,…
On Thursday, 3 September 2020, EXAM 4.0 project partners met online to hold an official partner meeting of this pilot vocational excellence project. Regular online meetings held in spring and summer allowed shaping up task distribution and discussing project management aspects, leading to this partner meeting during which the work so far was assessed by all project…
The EXAM 4.0 project was presented by Mr. Unai Ziarsolo (TKNIKA / Miguel Altuna High School) at the online conference Centres of Vocational Excellence, hosted on 16 June 2020 by TKNIKA, EXAM 4.0 coordinator. The event, at which the five pilot initiatives of VET excellence platforms selected for funding in 2019 were showcased, gathered more…
With 15 years of experience on his back as a senior lecturer and researcher at leading academic institutions, Mr. Raimund Hudak is the Project Manager of Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW) for several European-wide research programmes. He manages the research and collaborates with other campuses within DHBW, bringing in the industry perspective and knowledge of change…
Mr. Kees Verburg has been working at Da Vinci College and its predecessors for about 44 years in different functions, having also been involved in a number of European projects. He currently acts as a secretary to the Board. Together with his colleague Mr. Daniel Wortel, he coordinates Da Vinci’s participation in the EXAM 4.0…
EXAM 4.0 project coordinator, TKNIKA, is organising an online conference gathering all five CoVE pilot projects, with the aim of gain further insight into the role of skills ecosystems for innovation, regional development, and social inclusion. 65% of future jobs will require a VET qualification in Europe and, therefore, it is necessary for the VET…