Leveraging flexible approaches and platforms for SME engagement in master’s programme design
DIGITWIN4CIEU offers a master’s degree across Spain, France, Hungary, and Turkey, equiping civil engineers with digital skill’s for the industry’s transformation. The quality and relevance of the content is largely ensured due to the industry and academic experts from SMEs and universities that have collaborated in the development of this masters.
Denmarks’s responsive policy approaches for rapid accreditation in vocational and higher education
In 2013, the Accreditation Act in Denmark, led to a shift in accreditation of courses, in particular from programme-based to institutional accreditation.
The institutional accreditation process evaluates the quality assurance systems of higher education institutions, focusing on whether they are well-documented and effective in enhancing programme quality. The Danish Accreditation Institute works closely with an expert panel to ensure thorough assessments.
The process results in an accreditation report that is handed over to the Accreditation Council. Based on the report, the council makes a decision on whether to classify the institution as ‘self-accrediting institution’. What this entails, is that the institution can make changes to existing programmes as they please, as long as the changes do not change a programme’s identity.
Incorporating automated tools and analysis in master’s programme design
MERIT is developing master’s degrees and short-term with the participation of NGOs, non-profits, research organisations, companies and SMEs. These are delivered by technical universities across Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Italy and Spain.
Courses in domains such as AI, cybersecurity and IoT become quickly outdated and projects like MERIT need resilient methods for easily building new content. Establishing an intangible infrastructure which allows for this is key to the project’s sustainability.
Framework for competency-based evaluation of students in higher education
Designing content in higher education is often associated with a lack of agility. Universities create fixed curricula, following rigid schedules, which do not match market dynamics, but rather limit their adaptability to rapidly evolving digital skills requirements
MERIT has the task of creating an educational ecosystem, spanning across Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Italy and Spain to train digital specialists and improve the evaluation of different students or courses by matching study programmes to the skills produced.