Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL). Advanced Digital Skills
'Specialised education programmes in key capacity areas' (Call
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The objective is to prepare a proposal that emanates directly from the University government and that has a high impact in a large number of students from all the schools and faculties of each University. The expertise of the different Unite! partners would be a major asset to be able to develop interdisciplinary courses, and find the
best experts to design, for example, applications of Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence or Cybersecurity in fields such as health, agriculture, finance, architecture, manufacturing, energy or transports.
Our goal is to design and deliver the following programmes (possibly Joint Programmes among partners):
- Conversion programmes for students graduated from a bachelor's programme from non-ICT fields to acquire the required digital skills for either:
1. Become users of advanced digital technologies, which are crucial to enable the digitalisation of traditional industries. They will combine sectoral knowldege with digital skills, enabling the use of digital solutions for specific
business cases.
2. Continue their studies specialising in fields such as AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analysis, IoT, microelectronics, etc in order to be able to develop and deploy the future key digital technologies.
- Self-standing modules (online, hybrid or in-person) which can be followed by:
1. External students, in which case the certification would be by means of a microcredential
2. Students from bachelors and masters of Unite! Universities. The scope would be to offer transversal courses to include advanced digital competences within the curricula of all our existing programmes. We should be very
ambitious in this particular point, aiming to reach a large percentage of our current students.
We need to define the consortium and contact persons as soon as possible, in order to start working right after Christmas.