Transcript Educate to Innovate - Industrial Technologies 2012

Educate to Innovate
A SusChem programme for building skills capacity
for a sustainable European chemical sector
Susan Fleet - Britest Limited
Professor Michael Matlosz - Université de Lorraine
SusChem & Education
Innovation
Education:
A horizontal priority considered since
the launch of SusChem
SusChem
enabling
technologies
addressing
societal challenges
 The availability of a skilled labour
force is essential to the long-term
viability and innovative capacity of
the European chemical industry
Research
Education
Skills for innovation: Industry needs
Business
skills
Personal
skills
Scientific & Technical
skills
Skills needs for innovation: Main findings
Critical For engineers
skills
For scientists
Business Project management
Innovation management
Understanding customers &
suppliers
IPR
Innovation management
Understanding customers & suppliers
Personal Communication
Team work
Problem solving
Creative thinking
Team work
Communication
Scientific Process Modelling & Simulation,
and Scale-up, Reaction engineering,
technical Process Design,
Biochemical engineering
Process Intensification,
Safety engineering,
Particle science, Nanotechnology,
Sustainable chemistry, Materials
chemistry.
Organic chemistry and polymer chemistry
Catalysis, nanotechnology, formulation,
Sustainable chemistry
Interface chemistry
Industrial biotechnology,
Biochemistry
Building Skills Capacity: what needs to be done?
At the SusChem workshop “Building Skills Capacity for a Sustainable European
Chemical Sector” held at the RSC in October 2011, experts from industry and
academia identified together a need for:
 Enhanced dialogue and collaboration between HEIs and industry on skills for
innovation issues and course development
 Greater awareness among HE teaching staff of the benefits of context-based
teaching resources
 Better dissemination of ‘good practices’ for the introduction of skills for
innovation into HE courses (methodologies, course design, involvement of
industry and to demonstrate the value active learning)
Educate to Innovate
Objective
The Educate to Innovate programme seeks to exploit
innovation outputs from SusChem’s Research & Innovation
projects to enhance the innovation skills of future generations
of scientists and engineers through the effective engagement
of industry and higher education institutions (HEIs).
An opportunity to move beyond standard project
dissemination activity to address identified need
SusChem R&I Projects
Innovation themes / approaches
Dissemination work packages
General communication
Exploitable results
Industrially focused training packages
GAP
Educate to Innovate
linking innovation themes to academic
teaching at undergraduate / Masters level
A framework for building innovation skills capacity
(undergraduate / Masters level)
EU
HEIs
SusChem related
R&I projects
(pilot)
Innovation
Content
Dialogue /
Ideas exchange
to enhance
innovation skills
Development
& Testing
EU
Industry
(chemical / industrial biotechnology)
New Case
Studies /
Teaching
Resources
The F3 Factory Pilot Project
 Emerged from SusChem’s Strategic Research Agenda
 A large scale multi-faceted innovation project
 Strong collaboration across industry and academia
 Approaching final year of the project
 Training modules identified as a key output from the project
 Timely opportunity to assess how innovation outputs can be adapted for
use as case studies / educational resources
F3 Factory Aims & Objectives
 Development and implementation of a modular continuous plant for low to
medium scale production
 Develop radically new modular chemical production technology
 Standardise processes and their interfaces
INVITE facility opened in October 2011.
Interior view of
the facility.
F³ Factory Consortium
EU academia / industry collaboration in action
Building on Europe’s collaborative spirit
European
Academia
Collaboration
Enhanced Innovation Value
European
Industry
Improved Skills capacity
European industry
EU chemical and industrial biotechnology sectors (large and SMEs) with:
 track record of positive engagement / collaboration with academia
 commitment to addressing future industrial challenges through open
innovation and collaboration
 desire to enrich academic teaching of innovation through development of
industrial focused innovation case studies
 willingness to share experiences and contribute to the programme
European HEIs
Higher Education Institutions with:
 focus on undergraduate / Masters teaching in chemistry / industrial
biotechnology / chemical engineering
 hands on experience / proven track record of innovative teaching methods
 desire to enrich current academic course material through inclusion of
industrially focused innovation case studies
 willingness to share experiences and contribute to the programme
Motivation
Academia
Industry
 Leveraging
 Visibility / Exposure with leading
industrial companies
 Access to new ideas / concepts
 Access to emerging innovation
themes
 Opportunity to help shape the
future
 Networking with leading EU
academics / institutions
 Opportunity to share best practice
in skills development
 Access to emerging innovation
themes
 Opportunity to shape future skills
capacity
Approach / Timeframe
2012
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
2013
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Stakeholder
Communication
Stakeholder Engagement
(needs / challenges / expectations)
Capture Innovation
themes from F3 Factory
Validate
Identify stakeholders for workshop(s)
Phase 1
Design workshop based
on stakeholder input
Workshop(s)
Translate outputs into development
plan for required educational resources
Phase 2
Phase 3
Development & evaluation
of educational resources
How to get involved....
 Contact any of the team involved to have a preliminary chat
 Participate in the information gathering phases (electronic questionnaire)
 Participate in a development workshop later in the year (if appropriate)
Contact information:
Industry:
Academia:
SusChem:
Sue Fleet
Andrew Smalley
T +44 (0) 1928 515683
E [email protected]
Professor Michael Matlosz
Nicolas Dupuy
T +33 (0) 6 07 09 00 47
E [email protected]
Sophie Wilmet
T +32 (0) 2 676 7362
E [email protected]