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The FS-Biotech Project is co-financed by the European Commission through the Erasmus program - Multilateral Projects - Projects focusing on cooperation between higher education and enterprises. The main objective of this project is to promote innovation in Higher Education, enhancing the connection between the business market and the development of the required skills by the educational Institutions. The main activities throughout the project in order to achieve this objective are:
1. Development of the benchmark activities with several companies in different sectors and with varied dimensions, which will culminateon on the identification of key competencies required by the market for recent graduates;
2. Development of support methodology that promotes the individual growth of the students leaving from their self-evaluation of transferable skills that are fundamental to their future professional integration;
3. Implement and develop activities of teaching-learning methodologies addressed to teachers in order to make the teaching also focuses on transversal skills beyond technical skills, as well as to support the development of education techniques more focused on regulated-learning.
FS Biotech – Future Skills For Biotechnology main goals are: to enhance the quality of teaching-learning systems in HEI, to promote cooperation between HEI and companies by fostering the involvement of companies, Industry and Professional Associations, Alumni and other relevant stakeholders and to developed competitive graduates that may have an impact in the competitiveness in the Biotechnology area. We intend to develop and validate a Skills Profile (SP) for Biotechnology graduates using an instrument that will be administered to 500 companies from 4 European countries aiming to identify the market valued soft skills. Furthermore we intend to introduce these soft skills in the academic curricula generating a better adjustment between market needs and the graduate’s profiles. For that we will create a training model (CD-TM) in order to improve teachers’ skills and promote the reformulation of pedagogical methods like tutoring and coaching. This model will also take into account the results of an inventory of self-assessment (SPEI) used to evaluate the students skills and perceptions in self-regulated learning. This will be accomplished along 10 Work Packages:
WP1 > Biotechnology Skills Profile:
The main aim is to foster cooperation between companies and Universities and the adaptation of curricula to companies needs in terms of valued skills.
WP2 > Transference Programme of professional profiles into curricula:
Its main aim is to allow the transference of market valued skills into the curricula.
WP3 > opment – Perceived Self-Regulated Learning Skills:
The aim is to develop research in the area of Self-Regulated Learning skills, in order to adapt the Tutoring Project to students’ needs.
WP4 > Implementation of a Tutoring Project:
The aim is to develop teachers’ skills in this area, in order to integrate valued soft skills in the process of tutoring as well as encouraging students’ self-regulated Learning skills.
WP5 > Benchmark of Good Practices:
The aim is to foster the exchange of good practices regarding the promotion of soft skills development in University students and graduates.
WP6 > Career Management Model:
The aim is to encourage the development of soft transferable skills in students and graduates and, thus, foster the development of employability skills.
WP7 > Results Exploitation:
Dedicated to user protocols and scientific papers production.
WP8 > Dissemination:
Dedicated to project and project results’ dissemination.
WP9 > Project Management:
Dedicated to consortium meetings organization, project monitoring and management.
WP10 > Evaluation and Quality:
Dedicated to planning, monitoring and evaluation.
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