Partner search for an Erasmus Plus project to foster strategic design skills development: clusters, business associations or any entity representing enterprises

Short summary A Spanish regional public body is preparing an Erasmus Plus project aimed to create training resources for strategic designer profiles and the promotion of its incorporation in companies and organisations. It is searching for partners able to identify skills and training needs, to define new courses and extracurricular activities and test them through testing labs or pilots.

Full description Based on an innovative co-creation methodology developed during a previous EU project, this proposal aims at working with public administration, vocational training centres, universities and business organisations from different regions of Europe to identify skills and training needs, taking into account current experiences, such as good practices that will be identified along all Europe. New courses and extracurricular activities will be designed and tested within the existing study programmes and dissemination activities will be organised to raise awareness of the profile among students, the business world and design professionals. A platform for sharing resources will be created. Objectives: • To complete the existing training offer, promoting a new and multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning to address current and future needs and to tackle the economic and social challenges of educational centres and companies. • To contribute to recognise the relevance and role of the strategic designer profile, as well as its implementation in companies and organisations. • To facilitate the co-creation of knowledge between higher education and vocational education and training, between the public sector and the business sector. • To reduce barriers in the communication and interrelation between academic and professional spheres. • Create new employability opportunities for young people and design professionals. • To facilitate the exchange of experiences between entities from different regions.

Contact / source: NEXT EEN Widgets (europa.eu)