A dedicated forum for all MERIT project participants, its study program students and other partners.
MERIT project objectives
MERIT project aims to reach these objectives:
- Increase the reputation of consortium universities, as leaders in AI, IoT and cybersecurity areas, thus becoming a close-by expert to the society and industry of digital competencies.
- Update the teaching staff skills through knowledge and synergy received from the collaboration of different stakeholders.
- Stimulate the growth of advanced digital skills in Europe by attracting additional target groups to choose AI, IoT and Cybersecurity master studies or individual courses for an increase of gained skills.
- Increase the synergy with different stakeholders of the study program, establishing productive and long-lasting collaboration links, maintaining the current ones and extending the network by including new stakeholders.
- Assure the visibility of the project activities, study program results and benefit of digital skills.
- Resume the AI competency map for assurance of recent and demanded students’ skill development.
- Extend the potential of study program graduates by elaborating the learning outcomes built on the specialised and collaboration skills, needed by regional markets.
- Increase the master study program, training recognition for the development of advanced digital skills, by getting study program quality approval on a national level.
- Increase the course material accessibility, by applying recent learning material formats and environments.
- Enhance study quality monitoring, by adapting data-analytic based solutions, iterative quality estimation and improvement methodologies.
- Assure student-centred learning experience in targeted advanced digital skills by using recent and user-oriented learning methods.
- Increase students’ collaboration skills in international and interdisciplinary teams.
- Assure fluent integration of students to the market or to a future research career.
MERIT network
Our initial network is composed of 4 universities, 1 research centre, 3 digital innovation hubs and 2 SMEs. At the same time, we are open to collaboration and network extension. Be part of the MERIT initiatives and join our community to be trained or to contribute to the upskilling in advanced digital skills.