Upskilling Lab 4.0 Short-term staff training

The EU funded project UpskillingLab 4.0 and its outcomes were presented and tested on the 22nd and 23rd April 2021. The main project goal is to provide skill improvement opportunities to companies’ staff (managers and employees involved in innovation), so as to empower them to foster open innovation between startups, scaleups, and established companies operating in specific verticals with focus on modern technologies and innovation (Industry 4.0).
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The meeting saw the participation of representatives from the whole project consortium, which is composed of:

• Bulgarian Industrial Association (BIA), leader of the consortium,
• Knowledge, Innovation and Strategies Management Club (KISMC), from Bulgaria,
• Chamber of Craft & Small Business of Slovenia (CCSBS), from Slovenia,
• University of Deusto, from Spain,
• European Startup Network (ESN), from Belgium
• Inqubator Leeuwarden (INQ), from the Netherlands
  
  

​On Thursday, the 22nd, the meeting opened with a presentation by Sasha Dijkstra from Inqubator, welcoming the attendees and giving a recap about the project. She then briefly introduced the agenda of the meeting. Next was a presentation by Milena Koleva from KISMC, on creativity and idea creation followed by an introduction to Open Innovation.  

​The meeting continued with an overview provided by Tontxu Campos from University of Deusto on the Upskilling Lab 4.0’s Skills Development Framework (Output 2), followed by a closing Q&A session. 

On Friday, the 23rd, the meeting began with the presentation of the toolkits, followed by their testing and evaluation.

Jan Bormans from ESN guided the testing and evaluation session for the Training toolkit for start-ups/scale-ups (Output 3/A1), while Milena Koleva guided the one on the Training toolkit for start-ups/scale-ups (Output 3/A2) and presented the ongoing work on the Gamified platform (Output 4). 

The meeting closed with a discussion on the evaluation methodology for the tools and the training led by Tontxu Campos and with a wrap up by Sasha Dijkstra.