The EUI-Net Thematic Network approaches the transversal theme of the university role in a knowledge-driven society, namely the University - Industry cooperation. The project aims to create a European network of universities and industrial partners in the field of education, research and services. The main objectives are to define and update generic and specific competences relevant to the industrial sector using the "Tuning" methodology, in particular for the practical stages of the students as part of the curriculum and to promote synergies between teaching - learning - research in the European Higher Education for a better integration of research results in teaching.
The main activities are related to setting up the network as a legal body at European level, being active in the University-Industry cooperation sector, promoting synergy between teaching and research in relevant areas for industry, research and training cooperation and structuring the university curricula including student practical stages, professional insertion, dissemination, etc.
The target groups are graduates, students and learners in European universities, academic and research staff in European higher education institutions, university leadership, university stake- holders; professional staff from industrial companies, managers and policy makers etc.
Daedalus Informatics, one of the members of the EUI-Net network since September 2004 has activiely contributed to the realization of its goal via several presentations, papers and software design.
Daedalus has successfully presented a paper entitled "An integral 3-layer technological model for Education and Labor interleave and intensification". This paper introduced an integral 3-stage roadmap for implementing an effective and pragmatic delivery, of a technological model able to interleave and render an individual's employment and academic profile, as inter-nested to his/her life-through education. The model has currently reached maturity and general consensus, and is entering a gradual implementation and public evaluation, under the codename EUEDOS (European University Education-Enterprise-Employability Databases Organization System).
The overall model operational environment is realized under an advanced grid of databases and repositories, purposely engineered as to host activities of major actors involved (state control, workforce, academic institutions and enterprises), under a dynamic network interleaving lifelong learning, workforce promotion, career mediation services and policy making, as principal carriers for steering transition to a new level of European Education/Innovation potential. A core aim is to offer a tangible and highly accessible technological platform able to support the vision & roadmap defined at Bologna declaration.
Several modules of the EUEDOS model are currently under development -or have even passed a preliminary phase of pilot demonstrations. Sample workforce databases are currently elaborated with the SCOs (Student Career Offices) of Vienna and the SCOs (Student Career Offices) of University of Piraeus.
For the needs of the pilot demonstration and implementation of EUEDOS model working in real conditions (as real as possible in this primary stage), it was decided - in the context of EUI-Net - to transfer a portion of student records from the database of the SCO of Vienna in an EUEDOS vertical unit environment. SCOs (Student Career Offices) are national offices aiming to support students on their transition from the university to the employment. A committee of EUI-Net have chosen 15 data fields to be contained in the output data collection. SCO of Vienna delivered an anonymized data collection of more than 3000 students, to be used in the pilot implementation. Unfortunately all data fields was given as character strings, even though some of them should be tabular. This fact limits the possible search type in database to be applied only in character fields and not in available categories, which would be very useful in such a database.
Related link : http://www.eui-net.org/
The main activities are related to setting up the network as a legal body at European level, being active in the University-Industry cooperation sector, promoting synergy between teaching and research in relevant areas for industry, research and training cooperation and structuring the university curricula including student practical stages, professional insertion, dissemination, etc.
The target groups are graduates, students and learners in European universities, academic and research staff in European higher education institutions, university leadership, university stake- holders; professional staff from industrial companies, managers and policy makers etc.
Daedalus Informatics, one of the members of the EUI-Net network since September 2004 has activiely contributed to the realization of its goal via several presentations, papers and software design.
Daedalus has successfully presented a paper entitled "An integral 3-layer technological model for Education and Labor interleave and intensification". This paper introduced an integral 3-stage roadmap for implementing an effective and pragmatic delivery, of a technological model able to interleave and render an individual's employment and academic profile, as inter-nested to his/her life-through education. The model has currently reached maturity and general consensus, and is entering a gradual implementation and public evaluation, under the codename EUEDOS (European University Education-Enterprise-Employability Databases Organization System).
The overall model operational environment is realized under an advanced grid of databases and repositories, purposely engineered as to host activities of major actors involved (state control, workforce, academic institutions and enterprises), under a dynamic network interleaving lifelong learning, workforce promotion, career mediation services and policy making, as principal carriers for steering transition to a new level of European Education/Innovation potential. A core aim is to offer a tangible and highly accessible technological platform able to support the vision & roadmap defined at Bologna declaration.
Several modules of the EUEDOS model are currently under development -or have even passed a preliminary phase of pilot demonstrations. Sample workforce databases are currently elaborated with the SCOs (Student Career Offices) of Vienna and the SCOs (Student Career Offices) of University of Piraeus.
For the needs of the pilot demonstration and implementation of EUEDOS model working in real conditions (as real as possible in this primary stage), it was decided - in the context of EUI-Net - to transfer a portion of student records from the database of the SCO of Vienna in an EUEDOS vertical unit environment. SCOs (Student Career Offices) are national offices aiming to support students on their transition from the university to the employment. A committee of EUI-Net have chosen 15 data fields to be contained in the output data collection. SCO of Vienna delivered an anonymized data collection of more than 3000 students, to be used in the pilot implementation. Unfortunately all data fields was given as character strings, even though some of them should be tabular. This fact limits the possible search type in database to be applied only in character fields and not in available categories, which would be very useful in such a database.
Related link : http://www.eui-net.org/