Future IT leaders for a multicultural, digital Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Future IT leaders for a multicultural, digital Europe

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The digitalization of society offers an unlimited field for innovation, and, with the support of information and communication technologies (ICT), we are transitioning towards a rapidly evolving context of novel, unexpected technological, societal, and industrial challenges.
Through the disruptive changes it induces, it also raises unprecedented challenges that address both ethics, business, industry, innovation, social relationships. One of the challenges focuses on IT graduates’ employability and the way to better match their competencies with the fast evolving market’s needs and to help the industry to better understand young graduates expectations.
The European (France, Germany, Italy and Romania) task force comprises four leading Universities, four corporate partners, with the support of local authorities, and it aims at gathering companies’ needs and priorities, and developing and implementing relevant evolutionary process of 4 seminars, far beyond a classical student’s exchange framework or a new ICT module. For each seminar, we focus on an emerging technology that is disrupting the current technological paradigm (such as AI, Internet of Things, Blockchain, Assistive Robotics, Artificial Intelligence) along with its related socio-economic implications (such as Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Multiculturalism, Globalization, Ethics, Privacy).Target groups in the committed institutions are young, local and international IT master students and teacher-researchers whose expertise could be sharpen through workshops and seminars between the academia and the industry in shared curricula. The industry will also profit from this trialogue.
An open resource library, a white paper and multiplier events in the four European countries will ensure an appropriate dissemination in order to increase awareness among diverse stakeholders.
As a conclusion, FIT EUROPE aims to create a platform which enables the industrial and academic participants to develop methods and practices, analyse social and/or economic impacts of emerging technologies and to produce new knowledge on how IT can contribute to boundary-breaking innovations that will enable ambitious development and growth in intelligent socio-technical futures, all of which combines to realise the goal of educating ‘Future IT leaders for a Multicultural, Digital Europe’.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 322746 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE LYON & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Lyon French Tech
• Centrul IT pentru Stiinta si Tehnologie
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
• ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
• UNIVERSITAT PASSAU
• Atos International Germany GmbH