Rebooting manufacturing industry with digitalisation skill development [REBOOT SKILLS] is to enable workers who are at present or who wish to be employed  in the manufacturing sector to access advanced digital upskilling opportunities that can help them keep pace with the latest developments in Cybersecurity, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). The project, brings together a novel mix of EU education providers and professional organizations to deliver a bespoke upskilling model of advanced digital skills-based through short training course that will jointly empower workers and the manufacturing industry at this critical time for European manufacturing industry ecosystem.  

Activities

The consortium will create and deliver a new pool of training  based on responding the following objectives. 

1. Create a sustainable and collaborative training offering serving the digitalization needs of SMEs operating in key capacity areas.
2. Facilitate access by SMEs owners, managers and employees to high-class digital training that is easily afforded in a multi-site setting
3. To increase the number of women and men able to design, develop and deply digital solutions in the manufacturing industry. 

Reboot Sills Project will deliver 35 short training course on digital technologies, co-designed by 8 education providers from Europe. 

Target group

REBOOT SKILLS training offering has been specifically tailored to meet the digitalization needs of this target group:

• SMEs operating in key capacity areas
• SMEs owners, managers and employees
• The Unemployed 

The training will be designed to be gender-sensitive, and special effort will be made to provide easy access for all genders to REBOOT SKILLS courses. Special attention will be paid to the pursuit of gender balance within the REBOOT SKILLS training staff.

Partners

Coordinator

• University of OULU (Finland)

Beneficiaries

1. DIMECC Oy  - Research and Technology Center, Finland
2. MADE Competence Center I4.0 Competence Center, Italy
3. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven University, Belgium
4. FlandersMAKE - Research and Technology Center, Belgium
5. University of Limerick, University, Ireland
6. Luleå University of Technology, University, Sweden
7. SKILLNET IRELAND , Company, Ireland

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/reboot-skills