Mobility and Progression Practicalities around realising the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy

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Mobility and ProgressionPracticalities around
realising the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy

• Prof. Vistrian MATIES Lecturer Olimpiu
  HANCU
• Department of Mechatronics
• Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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Contents

• Introduction
• The Lisbon Strategy and the World Competition
• Education and training for integration - new
  challenges for educational and training
  institutions in the knowledge based society
• Knowledge production development and innovation
  vectoring, major needs in a Knowledge Europe
• Mofit 2 project a real platform to achieve the
  objectives of the Lisbon Strategy
• Mobility and Progression for mechatronic
  occupation - an efficient way of action to
  develop European Spirit for Mechatronics
• Conclusion

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EU - ROMANIA
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About Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

• The city Cluj-Napoca
• the cultural capital of Transilvania
• located in the North-West part of Romania
• 500 thousands inhabitants,
• 80 thousands students
• 6 state universities.

• Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
• 8 faculties
• Academic Staff 650
• Students 12.500
• 15 years experience in the field of Mechatronic
  Technology and Education
• 
  www.utcluj.ro

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The Lisbon Strategy and the World Competition

• The European Council agreed that Europe
  should become by 2010,
• the most competitive and dynamic
  knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of
  sustainable economic growth with more and better
  jobs and greater social cohesion.
• (The
  Lisbon summit, March 2000,
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  confirmed by the Barcelona summit in 2002 )

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The Lisbon Strategy and the World Competition

• The declaration of the European Council is a
  challenge for EU to participate in a world
  competition together with Japan and USA, and to
  be the winner.
• The spirit of the main competitors is developed
  on mechatronic platform. The winner status of the
  EU is also a challenge to develop the European
  spirit for mechatronics.
• Actions of the competitors to develop the spirit
  for mechatronics
• Japan1956 - the mechanical industry promotion
  law was established
• 1957 - the electrical
  industry promotion law was carried out, too
• 1971 - the special electrical
  and mechanical industry promotion law was set up
  instead of the previously mentioned two laws.
  Then the slogan electro-mechanical integration
  was often used to promote the merger of machines
  and electrical devices. The six key words are
  connected between mechatronic technology and
  Japanese life style. These are the following six
  words coined Japanese ABCDEF average, blend,
  clean, delicacy, education and flexibility
• 1978 - machine information
  industry advancement promotion law was
  established instead of the previous law
  
• 1978 - the Mechatronic
  education was initiated at the newly founded
  University of Toyohashi
  
• USA 1985 - the Department of Commerce
  elaborated JTECH panel report on mechatronics
  in Japan
• 1991 - the National Science
  Foundation launched the project called Synthesis
  Coalition, involving several universities across
  the US. The leadership of the Coalition was
  Stanford University. Teaching mechatronics is one
  of the means by which the Coalition is achieving
  their goal of improving engineering education.
  They believe that mechatronics presents an ideal
  technological blend of science, engineering
  disciplines and exciting applications.
• EU 1986 - the word mechatronics acquired
  its citizenship in the vocabulary of the Europen
  Community. The Industrial Research and
  Development Advisory Committee (IRDAC) of the
  European Community (Doc.IRDAC PM 17-10-86/3)
  recognized mechatronics as one of the major needs
  to be met by the European Research and
  Educational programs. The decision of the EC
  stimulated the interests for mechatronics in the
  EU countries. They are well known the National
  programs for Mechatronic education as local and
  regional initiatives to promote mechatronic
  philosophy in all the fields of activities. The
  ADAPT project developed at the EU level is very
  representative one.
• European integration in Mechatronics leads to
  Innovation, Competitiveness and Sustainability
• MOFIT2 project - was a very fruitful frame of
  cooperation between the partners stimulating the
  actions to explicit the need to develop the
  European spirit for mechatronics

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ADAPT
ADAPT Project Partners University of Wales
College, Newport Technifutur in Liege,
Belgium Institut Universitaire des Science pour
IIngenieur de Marseille , France Technopolis,
Thessaloniki Greece University of Seville, Spain

• Motivation
• There is an increasing need for a smart
  mechanical engineer with a knowledge not only
  concentrated in mechanical engineering but
  extended to include electronic and computing
  engineering allowing an integrative approach to
  the application of engineering science.
• Objectives (1995-2000)
• To accelerate the adoption of the workforce to
  industrial change
• To increase the competitiveness of industry,
  service and commerce
• To prevent unemployment by improving the
  qualifications of the workforce, increasing
  internal and external flexibility and ensuring
  greater job mobility
• To anticipate and accelerate the creation of new
  jobs and new activities, particularly labor
  intensive ones

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ADAPT Project Number of applications registered
in EU countries
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Education and training for integration - new
challenges for educational and training
institutions in the knowledge based society

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  Motto
• To reach innovation, teach integration
• Knowledge is the result of information
  structuring and integrating.
• The integration thinking development is so
  important like the approaches to get abilities
  to read and to write.
• Mechatronics as educational environment for
  integration ensures methods and tools to promote
  the integration concept in education, training,
  research and development activities etc.
• Mechatronic occupation could be the knowledge
  worker occupation as it is mentioned in the
  Strategic Research Agenda of the Technological
  Platforms (TP 1-26), created since 2001.
• The platform of conceptual approaches related on
  the integration process is defined by
  integronics the science of the integration
  processes and of a hyperintegrated systems.
• Mechatronics could be the EU messenger of
  integration, too.
• All the structures designed to be developed at
  the EU level ( EQF, European Area of Research and
  Innovation, Technological Platforms, European
  Area of Lifelong Learning, European Civil Society
  Platform on Lifelong Learning etc.) should be the
  result of the integration of National and
  regional Structures.
• The need of the concrete approaches as the about
  mentioned is confirmed by the report Creating on
  innovative Europe, of the independent expert
  group on RD and Innovation, January, 2006
  (http//europa.eu.int/invest-in-re
  search/)
• The conclusion of the report is
• More resources for RD and innovation are a
  necessity but they are an insufficient means to
  achieve the goal of an Innovative Europe. A
  paradigm change is needed in which European
  values are preserved but in a new social
  structure.
• Europe and its citizens should realise that
  their way of life is under threat but also that
  the path to prosperity through research and
  innovation is open if large scale action is taken
  now by their leaders before it is too late.

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Knowledge production development and innovation
vectoring, major needs in a Knowledge Europe

• The shift from resources-based production to the
  knowledge-based production asks for mechanisms to
  develop knowledge production and to facilitate
  the access to knowledge.
• Knowledge production asks for approaches related
  on the work productivity in the field.
• The innovation is the best way to increase the
  work productivity in the knowledge production.
• Integration is a proved way of action to get
  innovation.
• Mechatronics as educational environment for
  integration is a key driver of innovation and
  competitive advantage in a dynamic
  knowledge-based Europe.

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Mofit 2 a real platform to achieve the
objectives of the Lisbon Strategy

• Lisbon European Council 2000 , Barcelona
  European Council 2002 the increased
  transparency of qualifications and lifelong
  learning should be two of the main components to
  make European education and training system a
  world quality reference by 2010.
• The Joint Interim report of the (Education)
  Council and the Commission (February 2004) on the
  implementation of the Education and Training
  2010 work programme gives priority to the
  development of a European Qualifications
  Framework as an essential contribution towards
  the Lisbon strategy. The report states that such
  a framework could stand as a common reference
  enabling and promoting transparency, transfer and
  recognition of qualifications and competences in
  Europe.
• In the Maastricht Communiqué (14 December
  2004) the Ministers responsible for VET in 32
  European countries, the European social partners
  and the Commission agreed to give priority to
  the development of an open and flexible European
  qualifications framework providing a common
  reference to facilitate the recognition and
  transferability of qualifications covering both
  VET and general (secondary and higher)
  education.
• EU Heads of Government at their meeting
  in Brussels in March 2005 requested the creation
  of an EQF, thus supporting and strengthening
  previous recommendations (February and December
  2004) made by EU Ministers of Education and
  Training

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Purposes and functions of an EQF

• The EQF will enable qualifications frameworks at
  national and sectoral level to relate and
  communicate to each other thus developing
  transparency at the European level.
• The framework will facilitate the transfer,
  transparency and recognition of qualifications
  defined as learning outcomes assessed and
  certified by a competent body at national or
  sectoral level.
• A principal function of an EQF would be to
  strengthen mutual trust and cooperation between
  the different stakeholders involved in lifelong
  learning. This is important for reducing barriers
  to recognition of learning and for enabling
  learners to make better use of available
  knowledge, skills and competences. Its role would
  furthermore be to enable and promote mobility of
  learners and labour market mobility across
  borders.

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MECHATRONIC OCCUPATION

• Mofit objective
• development the Mechatronic Occupation as
• a recognised occupation in Europe
• facilitating mutual recognition of
• qualification and mobility of labour in
• context of lifelong learning

Challenge Individuals can progress from one
level to the next in the same or different
countries, providing they have successfully
demonstrated competence at the previous level
through recognised qualification based on the
common syllabus in any partner country.
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MECHATRONIC OCCUPATION

• Mechatronic Qualifications
• Lead Technician
• Maintenance Technician
• Technical operator

• EQF- Mechatronic Qualifications
• EQF - a recommended framework of
  approaches which can improve mobility and
  simplify all approaches regarding the mutual
  recognition of competences and qualifications in
  a European space

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Mofit 2 a real platform to achieve the
objectives of the Lisbon Strategy
The relationship between NQFs and EQF

• The qualification levels in mechatronic
  occupation were harmonised in order to develop a
  unique frame of approaches.

• National authorities must determine how the
  qualifications within each country are linked to
  an EQF

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Mobility and Progression - mechatronic
occupation -

• National Progression Paths - The paths that
  currently exist in each country to facilitate
  progression up through levels associated with
  mechatronic qualifications. Was identified
• National institutions delivering
  training/education that are fully accredited to
  furnish certificate/diploma/license on
  mechatronics.
• Competence area, qualifications awarded (related
  to NQF), for each institution.
• Transnational Progression Paths - Possible new
  paths/instruments for progression that may exist
  as a result of the Copenhagen and Bologna
  process. The national qualifications was related
  to EQF levels.
• Evidences - Certificates/Diplomas from
  educational and training institutions, and also
  governmental laws or decisions, evidences which
  prove the existence of Mechatronic occupation in
  project partners countries
• Mobility - Bodies or institutions that can
  facilitate mobility were identified and the
  practicalities to support the mobility between
  countries was outlined

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Progression routes mechatronic occupation
Romania
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Progression routes mechatronic occupation
Ireland
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Progression routes mechatronic occupation
Austria
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Progression routes mechatronic occupation
Poland
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Progression routes mechatronic occupation
Germany
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Conclusion

• The qualifications in a mechatronic occupation
  were identified in all MoFIT2 partners countries
  
• The competence/qualification levels in
  mechatronic occupation were related to the EQF in
  order to develop a unique frame of approaches
  which will facilitate mobility and mutual
  recognition through the transparency of
  qualifications and lifelong learning
• EQF can simplify all approaches regarding the
  mutual recognition of competences and
  qualifications in European space.
• The competencies within the MoFIT2 project
  syllabus document are detailed as learning
  outcomes that facilitate inclusion within
  certificate and diploma supplement documents,
  therefore simplifying the mutual recognition
  process.
• The acquired learner competences can be
  registered by Europass-Mobility document a
  document in a unique European format. This
  document can be also used in the mutual
  recognition process.
• Future efforts will be focused on the
  standardization of mechatronic occupation.

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Conclusion

• Keywords of actions to achieve the objectives of
  the Lisbon Strategy
• Mechatronics, Integration, Innovation,
  Knowledge, Competitiveness, Sustainability
• The winner status of the EU in the world
  competition asks for actions to develop European
  spirit for Mechatronics
• Education and training for integration are major
  challenges for educational and training
  institutions in the knowledge-based society
• Mechatronics is the key driver to of innovation
  in the knowledge Europe
• Mechatronic Occupation could be knowledge worker
  occupation in the knowledge Europe

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• Thanks to all Mofit 2 partners for their
  contribution to achieve the project objectives!
• Thanks for your attention!

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