Active Eco-system

This Deliverable D4.5 of Work Package 4 in the EuroTeQ project, describes how the project partners fare regarding fulfilling the aim of involving and getting input from engineering professionals from across industries, primarily by reaching out to the local ecosystems of each project partner, also called the local Advisory Boards (LABs). 

One conclusion at this project stage is that it is a complicated exercise to identify and involve relevant engineering professionals from across industries to participate in our project activities. This ensures that the project receives the appropriate input for developing its project deliverables. 

There is a need to test more different approaches to how to identify and recruit the right participants from across industries with the proper knowledge and background to inform our work, i.e., D4.7 (Approach and survey towards defining the main future competencies) and D4.9 (Overview of desired future competences prioritized and divided by sector). 

The work of D4.4 has partly informed the success of this D4.5. (Mapping of collaborative methods between industry and university. Identifying best practices), where it was clear that the most effective and fruitful collaboration between universities and industries takes place where we manage to engage the ecosystem and stakeholders at the right level, with the relevant roles and with a precise aim for the interaction. 

The LABs have proven less effective in being the avenues for identifying and recruiting engineer professionals to participate in project activities or processes than we initially thought. There might be a need to go over the participants in each partner's LABs and add or exchange representatives to contribute better to identifying professionals and companies to be involved in project activities in the next part of the project. Or even rethink the LAB composition and position in the overall university stakeholder relations.