ICARUS partners during Project kick-off in Malta
On Wednesday 30 October the Erasmus+ project ICARUS kicked off with a project meeting in Malta. The ICARUS project is coordinated by the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Malta and is a partnership with the Free University of Bolzano, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, University of Minho and the Politehnica University of Bucharest. Members from all the project partners met in Malta to discuss the challenges faced by educators and learners within higher education institutions when teaching subjects relating to Industry 4.0.
The uptake of digital manufacturing technologies within industry has increased considerably in recent years, but engineers do not always have the necessary skills and knowledge to enable the implementation of innovative and cutting edge solutions. Industry stakeholders in fact keep on pointing out that they struggle to find personnel with the required knowledge, in order to develop state of the art solutions.
This project aims specifically at addressing those skills gaps by developing openly accessible training material which can be used by both educators and learners alike over the two and a half year project. During the meeting the partners discussed how this can be feasibly achieved during the timeframe of the ICARUS project. They also discussed how to implement innovative pedagogic solutions in order to improve the efficacy of knowledge transfer.
