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-the Nordic-Baltic Challenge

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Globalization in a nutshell

“It is not the strongest among the species that survive, nor is it the

most intelligent. It's those that are most adaptive to change.”

Charles Darwin

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Globalization in real life

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Background

Change in ICT working environments

Loss of regional competitive advantages due to globalization

Governmental focus on studying abroad

High appreciation from Industry on co-operative skills

Close proximity benefits by strengthening the Nordic-Baltic Region

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Aim of the Project

To secure ICT Global Readiness in the Baltic Region by:

Modeling real world working conditions in engineering educations with the use of virtual teams in a Problem-Based Learning environment

Preparing engineering students for a global multi-site working environments

Implementation of future-proof working methods and tools in the engineering education

Creating a new Global mindset through problem-based learning

Exploit knowledge bases through exchange of knowledge and experience

Creating networks at student and business level

Increasing visibility of career opportunities in the Region

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Future-proof Problem Based Learning

PBL is about modeling a real work environment

Working in teams, solving Problems together prepares the students for the real work

The graduates are highly preferred in the industry

The Global ICT Readiness Project modernize the PBL model to make it fit with the reality of the 21st century?

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Establishing virtual teams

The Student Team:The teams are created on a basis of general knowledge of the students’ personal and technical competences from the University, regarding each specific task presented by the involved business partners.

Each project team will be assigned with a Project Supervision Team, consisting of representatives from the University, involved Business partner and from Project Facilitator

Project Supervision :

Project facilitator is surveying and supervising the the work flow and the learning process through the project

Industry partners are supervising the product.

Universities are supervising the technical outcome (engineering skills) of the product.

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Execution

Action Participants Duration

1 Team creation UniversitiesStudentsFacilitator

1 week

2 Project DescriptionSpecifications

UniversitiesIndustry

2 weeks

3 Working MethodsTool Training

Project FacilitatorSub-contractor

1 week

4 Project Execution StudentsSupervisors

10 weeks

5 Evaluation StudentsSupervisorsProject Facilitator

2 weeks

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Evaluation

After 2 project semesters, a collection of data is summoned in to a conclusive report to evaluate the outcome of the project.

These data are supplied from a questionnaire is to be submitted from each student and from the Supervision Team.

The evaluation process should cover all 3 aspects of the project –process, method and product.

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Contact: BaltICT Connecthl@latvisoft .com+45 2231 8506

Current status

Fund RaisingTravel Grant from Nordic Council of Ministers (present)Pre-study of educational structures Liaison with universities and industry partners

Links:http://www.nordplusonline.org/ http://www.iu.dk/programmer-og-tilskud/norden/nordplus/nordplus-videregaaende

http://www.uvm.dk/For%20institutioner/Finanslov%20og%20tilskud/Tilskud/Tips.aspx

http://www.norden.org/da/nordisk-ministerraad/ministerraad/nordisk-ministerraad-for-uddannelse-og-forskning-mr-u/soeg-stoette/nordplus-stoetteordninghttp://www.nordicinnovation.net/article.cfm?id=1-834-431 http://eu.baltic.net/How_to_apply.62.html?

http://ec.europa.eu/budget/library/publications/financial_pub/pack_rules_funds_en.pdf

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