{"id":60679,"date":"2019-02-28T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/?p=60679"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:18:42","slug":"cim-skills-development-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/higher-education-and-research\/cim-skills-development-university\/","title":{"rendered":"A university-business alliance for CIM skills development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CIM<\/a> project aims at developing innovative teaching and learning approaches to include Creativity and Innovation Management<\/strong> (CIM) in HE and in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be achieved through a self-directed learning experience at the interface of higher education and business for students coming from different sciences<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CIM<\/a> competencies are hard to be acquired in frontal teaching lessons or self-learning exercises. The ideal learning contexts to acquire these competences are the informal\/non-formal ones such as traineeships or mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em>For these reasons, the CIM method focuses on a self-learning experience for students coming from different degree courses<\/strong> that will be developed through an internship in between the university and the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/em>Only singular attempts have been made to systematically include the development of these competences in curricular or extracurricular HE courses, and the assessment of these competences requires a new competence framework system<\/strong> to give evidence of students\u2019 development, to connect them to existing certification systems and to offer a European wide validation approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CIM will develop and pilot an approach to tackle this issue based on a long-term partnership of academia, business and educational partners<\/strong> and through traineeships and team work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During their internship, students and employees will work along a project management structure and self-directed learning approach; each trainee will plan, develop and assess his\/her project, which leads towards at least one of the key competences for Creativity and Innovation Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEVEL5,<\/strong> an ICT-aided validation system, will be used to assess evidence and visualise competence developments in informal learning settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Duisburg-Essen, one of the youngest universities in German, hosted the first partnership meeting of CIM, the 19th \u2013 20th of February which reunited the 16 partners of CIM: 6 Universities; 1 Public Institution; 3 SMEs; 1 EU Network; 1 NGO; 3 Educational providers and 1 National Research Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CIM \u2013 Promoting Creativity and Innovation Management in an innovative blended learning and validation programme at the interface between higher education (HE) and business<\/a>\u00a0is co-funded by the\u00a0Erasmus+ Programme - KA2 Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices \u2013 Knowledge Alliances for Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CIM partnership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n