==> Enjoy reading the first newsletter (PDF here) of the recently launched international DECART project. Our 3-year cooperation partnership will provide guidelines to design innovative curricula that leverage the transformative capacities of 21st-century education systems in engineering and business. The project will also identify leadership models to help educational stakeholders to thrive in an increasingly turbulent socio-economic context.”

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Activities Follow-Up:

• 2023:
  • June 2023: Control visit of the French Agency at IMT Atlantique; Project meeting 2 on site at Reykjavík University, all partners represented; CDIO 2023 paper presentation at NTNU Trondheim with C. Gerwel, H. Audunsson, and S. Rouvrais; Advisory Board members scrutanization;
  • May 2023: 1st project newsletter launched; VUCA scenario questionnnaire.
  • April – May 2023: Extending analysis of curriculums to include other partner programs; Sharing first views on potential Higher Education crises and VUCA context;
  • March 2023: Publication policy and guidelines ; Comparison of curriculum descriptions, including main themes;
  • February 2023: Development of 2 page curriculum descriptions by all partners;
  • January 2023: Template of curriculum artefacts;
• 2022:
  • December 2022: Brainstorming of curriculum examples and metaphors ; Qualitative and quantitative questionnaire for quality of project meetings;
    Logo;
  • November 2022: First online meeting, incl. roundtable of partner’s presentation, main points of STEM and Management educational programs, VUCA overview from a Higher Education perspective, initial discussion on what is a curriculum; overview on resilience in Higher Education.