Flexibility and Resilience in Digital Transformation and Intelligent Automation – Advanced Skills and Tools for Academia and Entrepreneurs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Flexibility and Resilience in Digital Transformation and Intelligent Automation – Advanced Skills and Tools for Academia and Entrepreneurs

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

FOReSiGHT – Flexibility and Resilience in Digital Transformation and Intelligent Automation – Advanced Skills and Tools for Academia and Entrepreneurs is a 30-month Project implemented by a consortium of 7 partners (universities, SMEs, NGOs) from 5 countries: Romania, Germany, Italy, Croatia and Belgium.
Overall, FOReSiGHT aims at creating a digital collaboration platform between universities and companies to foresee and deliver future skills for interfacing between tech and non-tech professionals on intelligent automation, digital transformation and algorithmic governance, risk management, fostering resilience and flexibility.
Specific objectives:
1. Creating and Delivering a kit for Foreseeing and Integrating Intelligent Automation Skills, including delivery chain for future policies
2. Creating and Delivering a kit for Foreseeing and Integrating Digital Transformation Skills, including delivery chain for future policies
3. Creating and Delivering a kit for Foreseeing and Integrating Algorithmic Governance Skills, including delivery chain for future policies
The goal shall be reached via specific activities, such as:
– The development of Intellectual Outputs: Creating and Delivering a kit for Foreseeing and Integrating Intelligent Automation (IA) Skills, Creating and Delivering a kit for foreseeing and Integrating Digital Transformation Skills, Creating and Delivering a kit for Foreseeing and Integrating Algorithmic Governance Skills (all 3 kits carry curricula, study materials and a dedicated whitepaper. The 3 kits shall be available on an already existing readily accessible online platform, shall carry various levels of engagement, being made for teachers and trainers, as well as for users and shall be delivered via blended learning methods.) and a Foresight Kit for Teachers, Students and Entrepreneurs – with basic tools, applicable to various mediums.
– Learning/Teaching/Training Activities: one joint staff training session in Month 7, lasting for 3 days, with at least 20 participants, four blended mobility programmes for students taking place between Months 12 to 16 and 20 to 23, lasting for 5 days, with at least 40 participants overall, – two intensive study programmes for students/ stakeholders in Months 19 and 25, lasting for 5 days each, with 40 participants (students) from partner educational institutions and at least 10 trainers for them for each
– Multiplier events: 20 online seminars/webinars delivered for multiple types of stakeholders in all countries covered by the project on the key topics with 400 participants – one per month for the last 20 months of the project and 5 information sessions designed to disseminate the project results to press and other external stakeholders with 215 participants from other organisations.
Overall the project aims to reach directly: 600+ trained professionals + at least 1000 global users of the Open Educational Resources.
The project scales up on previous projects implemented by the partners, by using an existing platform and directing resources towards proper blended mobility, fostering firstly resilience in the partners of the consortium (teachers and students alike) and secondly in the community via spillovers.
The rationale of the project stems from several observations:
– Resilience and the need for proper foresight at micro-level in which regards DT, RM and AG are topics which affect all kinds of stakeholders: from regulators to civil society, academia and the business environment. These topics must be translated easily in skills which allow for readily interfacing between specialists, students and entrepreneurs.
– Since 2015, when JRC focused on resilience at EU level (for citizens and Union), the issue has been relevant to institutions, organizations, academia and businesses alike. The risks related to disruptive events or slow burning processes are undeniable and societies (via all their actors) should be able to mitigate them properly and ensure they have the least possible impact. JRC evolved the narrative in a 2017 scientific framework, while foresight has been the core topic of a 2014 whitepaper and numerous niche projects. Foresight underpins good EU governance and is an exercise that is done at macro level as standard practice; but this is not the practice in SMEs or HEIs, in which the focus is usually on a niche value-adding topic, not on the overall evolution of the business models.
– There is currently no project dedicated to building a transdisciplinary community of collaboration meant to bridge the gap in dictionaries between specialists in topics related to DT and other aspects of technology in relation to the shift in business models.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 306936 Eur

Project Coordinator

ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE DIN BUCURESTI & Country: RO

Project Partners

• LACONSEIL
• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU
• Asociatia Institutul de Prospectiva
• ZITEC COM SRL
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA
• ESCP EUROPE WIRTSCHAFTSHOCHSCHULE BERLIN EV