PEER-to-peer network of INNOvation agencies and business schools developing a novel transnational qualification programme on AdVanced Manufacturing for the needs of Central European SME
Central Europe has a strong industrial tradition which is recently offset by an urgent need for modernisation and re-industrialisation. CE companies, spec. SME, are urgently challenged to adopt innovative advanced manufacturing (AVM) processes in order to enhance their competitiveness and gain access to transnational AVM value chains. While AVM is mainly discussed as a technological issue, innovation managers and SME owners face huge organisational and strategic challenges. There is an urgent need to develop a joint qualification basis across CE with new transnational approaches for AVM-related capacity building in local SME and lead companies.
The InnoPeer AVM partnership of 11 organisations from 5 CE countries is commited to develop and pilot the 1st comprehensive, transnational AVM qualification programme shaped to the needs of CE companies, spec. SME. The multi-level programme will cover 3 knowledge dimensions (AVM technologies, human resource/organisational mgmt., business model dev.) using a mix of well-proven and novel training formats and methods for basic, advanced and practical trainings, like Living Lab webinars, practical test runs at a Model Factory and AVM strategy Camps. As an absolute novelty a compilation of "Teaching Cases" ("Harvard Business School style") based on real CE SME challenges will be developed. Participants attending the complete curriculum will write SME-related thesis to become "InnoPeer-certified AVM managers". Pilot trainings will involve target companies+innovation managers from all PP regions. The piloted programme will be made freely available for sustain. enlargement of peer networks involved in AVM qualification across CE.
PPs will elaborate regional action plans and a Roadmap on AVM capacity building in CE and establish the "InnoPeer AVM Board" of high-ranked industry/academia experts and CE inno. policymakers that will sustainable steer the impl. of project results and promote the AVM agendy of CE at EU level.