MANUSKILLS Envisioning an advanced ICT-supported build-up of manufacturing skills for the Factories of the Future

Summary

Although the attraction of young talents is nowadays one of the most important factors for global manufacturing competitiveness, the sector is suffering an increasing difficulty in the recruitment of the brightest human resources. Younger students (i.e. primary and secondary schools) express generalized disinterest towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) field subjects, while university students struggle to find opportunities to improve their skills on the most innovative manufacturing topics. To this respect, ManuSkills project aimed at studying advanced ICT-based technologies and training methodologies able to increase the awareness and interest of youngsters for manufacturing and to support their acquisition of advanced manufacturing knowledge. ManuSkills developed six applications based on different ICT-based delivery mechanisms targeting children, teenagers and university students: o EcoFactory (Politecnico di Milano, Sintef, HighSkillz) o How to build a skateboard? (Dassault Systemes, Keonys) o BrickPlanner (Aalborg Universitet, HighSkillz) o Interactive Product Assembly (University of Patras) o Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Game (Politecnico di Milano, Sintef, HighSkillz) o Teaching Factory (University of Patras) The applications were tested in 21 educational institutions of 5 European countries, involving a total of 1137 students. Structured evaluations on the increase of awareness, interest and knowledge of manufacturing thanks to the activities were collected and elaborated.

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Web resources:	http://www.manuskills.org/ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/609147
Start date:	01-09-2013
End date:	31-12-2015
Total budget - Public funding:	1 406 351,00 Euro - 1 050 000,00 Euro

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The main aim of ManuSkills is to study the use of enhanced ICT-based technologies and training methodologies to facilitate an increase of young talent interest in manufacturing and to support their training of new manufacturing skills.The project will experiment with a wide range of innovative delivery mechanisms such as serious games and teaching factory, supported by the use of social media augmented by gamification and leveraging the distribution channels preferred by young talent. In addition, the project will explore the pedagogical frameworks best suited to the personalization of individual learning needs taking into account the industrial demand. ManuSkills will address all three stages of the young talent pipeline (i.e. children, teenagers, young people), where in the early stages the focus will be to make manufacturing education more attractive to young talent, whilst in the later stages the focus will be to facilitate transformative deep learning of individuals, with reduced time-to-competence.