Project duration: 1.9.2022 – 31.8.2025

Objective:

The RaVeN is a new two-year M.Sc. degree scheme. Taking into account the wide geographical spectrum, diversification and needs for social inclusion, the capacity of higher education in the RIS and ESEE region is being built. Its main strength is its innovative approach to teaching through an active learning path by integrating the KTI along the value chain through the involvement of non-academic experts, mobility exchanges, industry, and start-ups.

The solution (technology):

Addressing the challenges of the modern economy is forcing diversification of higher education operating models and prioritizing transformation. The “Raw Materials Value Chain” (RaVeN) project responds to the portfolio analysis of the EIT Label M.Sc. Education. This one identifies a gap in the Mining Engineering Curriculum. Through the enrollment process, selected students, including students from RIS countries and the ESEE region, will take part in a four-semesters new M.Sc. Education Curriculum. A substantive value lying in its learning objective consists in a comprehensive approach to resources with an emphasis on a holistic value chain and on closing the gap between the supply of, and demand for, raw materials. The objective will be pursued along an active learning path involving students and looking for unconventional solutions that can get us closer to a more self-contained (natural resource re-circulating) and, therefore, more sustainable economy.

The four cooperating university partners, representing a broad geographical and cultural spectrum, collaborating with the two sides of the Knowledge Triangle, contribute a combination of expertise and highly entrepreneurial mindsets to the project. The innovation in the learning objective is its approach to new technologies which are viewed from the perspective of lifetime (looped) value chains. The Curriculum will aim to set up such loops in liaison with industrial stakeholders: the party able to offer non-academic insights as a practical educational and entrepreneurial inspiration for students. The expected results of this pilot project could be used in other M.Sc. Education Curricula of the EU and non-EU countries. This approach will translate into promoting entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in situ, while countering the brain drain, particularly from ESEE and the RIS region.

Partners:

  • AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland (Lead Partner)
  • Institute of Non-ferrous Metals – SIEĆ BADAWCZA ŁUKASIEWICZ – INSTYTUT METALI NIEŻELAZNYCH, Poland
  • La Palma Research Centre, Spain
  • Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
  • Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germany
  • Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, UPM (Technical University of Madrid), Spain

Find out more about the project on the official website.