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Presentation of the ASSETs+ project at the Polytechnic University of Marche

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Last September 28, our partner Dorota Stadnicka, from the Rzeszów University of Technology, presented the ASSETs+ project at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy.

The presentation ended with an invitation to the students to take part in the ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge III edition, an open competition to attract young talent to the Defence industry and to encourage them to initiate a career in defence-related technologies. The organizer of this edition is Rzeszów University of Technology and the TOPIC is: “Security – threats identification and defence strategies”. Next October 3rd will take place the launch event of the third edition of the Challenge. More information here. 

Presentation of the European Defence Challenge III edition in Palermo, Italy

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Last September 20, our partner Dorota Stadnicka, from the Rzeszów University of Technology, presented the ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge III edition to teachers and researchers from different European universities in the framework of another European project MAESTRO:

  • Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Loughborough University, United Kingdom
  • University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
  • University of Pisa, Italy

The main goal and topic of the challenge were presented. Seminars planned for students, which are to support students in the preparation of their challenge proposal, were also discussed.

Moreover, the universities have been invited to register as Associated Stakeholders to take part in ASSETs+ activities, such as seminars or courses.

Next October 3rd will take place the launch event of the third edition of the Challenge. More information here. 

Presentation of the ASSETs+ Project at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Last Friday September 16th, our partner Dorota Stadnicka, from the Rzeszów University of Technology, presented the ASSETs+ project to teachers, researchers and PHD students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

During the meeting, the objectives and main results of the ASSETs+ project were presented.

The ASSETs+ main goal is to design and develop education and training programmes, from their prototyping to replication in other contexts,  to provide trainees with new skills related to key technologies that will be expected in the Defence sector in the coming years, more particularly Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, C4ISTAR and Cybersecurity. 

The courses are designed for: Professionals working in Defence and AeroSpace Industry (up-skilling and re-skilling activities), University Students (3rd year of Licence and 1st year of Master) and Graduate University Students (2nd year of Master) and can participate partners of the ASSETs+ consortium and associated stakeholders. More information here. 

The presentation ended with an invitation to the students of the University of Ljubljana to take part in the ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge III edition, an open competition to attract young talent to the Defence industry and to encourage them to initiate a career in defence-related technologies. The organizer of this edition is Rzeszów University of Technology and the TOPIC is: “Security – threats identification and defence strategies”. Next October 3rd will take place the launch event of the third edition of the Challenge. More information here. 

Join us next October 3rd and discover all the details of the III edition of the ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge!

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The Launch Event will take place next October 3rd, 11:00-12:15 CET, on YouTube Live Streaming.

The main goal of the launch event is to present how important the European Defence Challenge is for continuous improvement of the European safety, for students and for industry. Representatives of the European Commission, defence experts, universities and industry will emphasize the importance of developing and applying new technologies to identify threats to security and implement defence strategies.

The ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge (EDC) is an open competition to attract young talent to the Defence industry and to encourage them to initiate a career in defence-related technologies.

The organizer of this edition is Rzeszow University of Technology and the TOPIC is: “Security – threats identification and defence strategies”. Threats in the areas of: defence industry, intellectual property theft, military equipment, auxiliary equipment, information flow, data protection, military operations, border surveillance and others, in the context of security and cybersecurity.

AGENDA

11:00 Welcome

• Jarosław Sep, Vice-Rector for Development and Business Cooperation First Deputy Rector, Rzeszów University of Technology
11:05 Introducing the challenge and timeline

• Dorota Stadnicka, Rzeszów University of Technology ‐ EDC III organizer
11:15 Importance of European security for stable future

• Robert Łukawski, University Security and Safety Research Center, Warsaw University of Technology
11:25 Status of the employment in Defence Sector

• Sónia de Melo Xavier, Policy Officer DG Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, Skills Agenda – Pact for Skills team, EC
11:35 Importance of the Challenge for European security and benefits for participating students

•Maurizio Ferrante, Head of Training and Knowledge Management,Leonardo S.p.A.
11:45 Security: Naval Threats identification and defence strategies – hints about the topic

• José Espinal, Director of Technology programmes, Navantia 
11:55 Experience exchange and motivations.

•Nathan Prakopetz, Andreas Wouters, Royal Military Academy of Belgium, EDC II ed. winners
12:05 Final Remarks

• Gualtiero Fantoni, University of Pisa, ASSETs+ Coordinator

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ASSETs+ will participate in the ENDR Conference on Dual-Use Technologies 2022

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The Conference will take place in Málaga (Spain) on November 17-18, 2022.

The European Commission and IDEA (the Agency of Innovation and Development of Andalusia-Spain) bring together, in a joint ENDR (the European Network of Defence-related Regions) event, a wide range of participants from defence/security-related businesses, national and European authorities, knowledge institutions and cluster organisations.

This fully on-site international event is focused on cybersecurity and cyber defence as well as other digital technologies (robotics, big data, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and sensors) of key importance for defence.

 What is offered to participants?

  • Be part of the debate on cyber security and cyber defence developments;
  • B2B meetings. Technology challenges on cybersecurity shared by corporations;
  • Up-to-date information on relevant EU policies and funding opportunities (European Defence Fund, Digital Europe and Horizon Europe);
  • Visit local actors who play a leading role in the Málaga ecosystem.

Participation in this event is free of charge, 100% on-site and for organisations based in any EU country.

Come to see us!

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Can higher education systems keep up with changes in labor market?

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The journal “Technological Forecasting and Social Change” has published a scientific paper of our partners from the University of Pisa, where they show how natural language processing can help in finding an answer.

We still know little about the role of higher education in the digital transformation. If on one side the labour market is constantly evolving and is asking for an upskilling process of the workforce, higher education institutions struggle to be agile enough. Therefore, it is necessary to measure and to better understand this gap.

In the scientific paper “Are universities ready to deliver digital skills and competences?“, our partners from the University of Pisa: Irene Spada, Filippo Chiarello, Simone Barandoni, Gianluca Ruggi, Antonella Martini and Gualtiero Fantoni, describe a quantitative approach to deal with this problem, focusing on the marketing sector. Through text mining, they develop a model of automatic job competencies extraction from Italian texts, using it to retrieve the skills expressed both in the exam’s descriptions of universities and the job vacancies.

The results allow to compare the skills offered by higher education with the labor market’s needs in Italy, exploring and highlighting the digital gaps existing between the two.

ASSETs+ applied a similar approach in the automatic skills analysis realized during the first year of the project: we extracted skills from job vacancies using the automated algorithm presented in the paper. The automatic reading of the description allows us to detect patterns of terms similar to the ESCO skills and formalize the proposal for ESCO.

READ THE PAPER

The ASSETs+ project aims to build a sustainable human resources supply chain for the European Defence Industry, that boosts innovation by both attracting highly-skilled young workers and upskilling its employees. The ASSETs+ main goal is to design and develop education and training programmes, from their prototyping to replication in other contexts,  to provide trainees with new skills and knowledge related to key technologies that will be expected in the Defence sector in the coming years.

Source: sciencedirect.com

Juliette GUILLOT (Nouvelle-Aquitaine Office), Antoine FERAL (ROLLS-ROYCE), Vincent MAZZONE (Nouvelle-Aquitaine Office), Miguel GARRIDO MORENO (Winner of the EDC I), Marie RAOUL (University of Bordeaux), Eric GRIVEL (Bordeaux INP/University of Bordeaux

A day in Brussels with the winners of the I edition of the ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge

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Last June 27, the winners of the first edition of the ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge had the opportunity to visit different European institutions and to have interesting and fruitful meetings with stakeholders in Brussels.

Our partners Antoine Feral from Rolls Royce and the team of the University of Bordeaux  -host of the 1st edition of the ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge- met in Brussels on the occasion of a whole day programme with the winners of the 1st edition of the Challenge, Miguel Garrido Moreno and Emre Kursat Kaya, last June 27.

The special programme included visits to several European institutions and different meetings with Vincent Mazzone, EU Policy Officer for Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine; Caterina Avanza, European Parliament Assistant (Renew France), Alessandra Bosini, from the EU Committee of the Regions, and Barry Conroy from the Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space DG DEFIS, European Commission. They also visited the Rolls Royce Office, had lunch with Michel Gary from the Group of French Industries for Land and Air-land Defence and Security GICAT and met with Benedikt Weingärtner, Communication Manager at the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe, ASD.

The ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge is an open competition to attract young talent to the Defence industry and to encourage them to initiate a career in defence-related technologies. The III edition is open and the topic is: “Security – threats identification and defence strategies”. If you want to learn more about this great opportunity for students  to boost their careers and open new horizons, click on the button below.

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Join the ASSETs+ Stakeholders Group and become part of our ecosystem!

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ASSETs+ is a four year Erasmus+ project, built on close collaboration between Defence Industry, Sectoral Organisations, Higher Education Institutions, Vocational Educational & Training providers and Research Centres, with 30 partners from 8 countries and a broader ecosystem of stakeholders.

ASSETs+ aims to build a sustainable human resources supply chain for the European Defence Industry, that boosts innovation by both attracting highly-skilled young workers and upskilling its employees. The ASSETs+ main goal is to design and develop education and training programmes, from their prototyping to replication in other contexts,  to provide trainees with new skills and knowledge related to key technologies that will be expected in the Defence sector in the coming years.

Beyond our full partners and associated partners, the ASSETs+ project is part of an open and expanding Defence ecosystem welcoming the participation of associated stakeholders.

ASSETs+ mainly targets defence-related companies and defence industry representatives, individual experts and other stakeholders who have an interest in developing skills and competences in four main technologies: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, C4ISTAR and Cybersecurity aspects, allowing the European defence sector to innovate.

WHY SHOULD YOU PARTICIPATE?
– Help define the new ASSETs+ Sectoral Skills Strategy for the Defence sector

– Enlarge your network in a prestigious context

– Possibility to participate in pilot implementations

– Networking and exchange of information regarding the skills agenda in Defence sector

WHAT IS REQUIRED OF YOU?
– Voluntary involvement

– Engagement free of charge

– Optional participation to workshops, online surveys and review of outcomes

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Now available the video of the seminar “Introduction to cybersecurity: computer threats, network and information security”

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This seminar took place at University Carlos III of Madrid, in the framework of the III edition of the  ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge, last June 15.

Speakers:
  • Lorena González, University Carlos III of Madrid (part I)
  • Rafael Estepa, University of Seville (part II)

The ASSETs+ European Defence Challenge is an open competition to attract young talent to the Defence industry and to encourage them to initiate a career in defence-related technologies.

The organizer of this edition is Rzeszow University of Technology and the TOPIC is: “Security – threats identification and defence strategies”. Threats in the areas of: defence industry, intellectual property theft, military equipment, auxiliary equipment, information flow, data protection, military operations, border surveillance and others, in the context of security and cybersecurity.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE

All undergraduate or graduate students from all faculties in European Universities, vocational education and training centres and other institutions dedicated to education.

Participants have to write a one page proposal that must present a new usage or suggest improvements on a new technology. Not only technological, but also socioeconomic, political, ethical and environmental aspects have to be taken into account. A board of experts will select the best papers, that will pass to the second phase.

Students are strongly encouraged to team up in pairs, finding a partner in a different university or country. And they will be welcome to attend several short seminars that will help them to understand the importance of improving security and write good essays.

NEXT SEMINARS

  • Security aspects from the industry point of view, October 10
  • How to write a good report?, October 17
  • Critical Thinking, October 24
  • Literature review methodologies, October 31
  • The role of cybersecurity for defence, November 7
  • Webinar with defence experts, December 12

BENEFITS

-Participation in the EDC III seminars and webinars with industry
-Free access to the courses offered within the ASSETs+ project
-Special awards for the best three teams and the best essay up to 20 years old.
-Public recognition on the ASSETs+ webpage and social networks

REGISTER NOW!

Next International Tech Conferences

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Are you looking to catch up on the newest advances and network with Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, or Cybersecurity industry experts? We share with you some events coming up next months!

The ASSETs+ project team has collected relevant information about some international tech conferences that are going to take place in the next months. You can check them below.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

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