Curriculum and Training Development in the METIS project

To improve its competitiveness, the EU microelectronics area needs to overcome critical skills deficits. In this context, METIS (MicroElectronics Training, Industry and Skills) gives an individual European partnership establishing a sustainable structure to: analyze main global biases effecting on the area and offer strategic insights and foresights, predict rising skills demands, identify job rules/jobs of the future, determine important occupational profiles and observe progress in the domain of human capital for microelectronics, develop a Sector Skills Strategy to support the global leadership of the EU microelectronics industry, establishing operational linkages between skills and the future of the area, federate European synergies towards the needs of data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) enabled by advanced microelectronics and its skills demands, establish an EU Microelectronics Observatory & Skills Council, plan and produce a modular and blended curriculum, integrating work-oriented learning that uses open education resources (OER), pave the way for the pan-European recognition of innovative Vocational Education and Training (VET), use innovative tools such as industry mentoring to facilitate inter-generational transfer of knowledge in the area, embed social (diversity & inclusion) and environmental sustainability (circular economy) subjects and EU policy aims in the development of workforce.