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…
One of the goals of our project is to desing a 4.0 lab model. A training lab for Advanced Manufacturing (AM) students. How can our students become used to work in 4.0 environments? How can a VET centre integrate 4.0 technologies in the labs? How can we connect machines? How do we gather data from…
All the CoVE projects approved for funding in the calls of 2018 and 2019, together with the European Training Foundations’ initiative on Vocational Excellence and with the support of the European Commission, are working together in the creation of a CoVE Community of Practices.
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…