With the programme Expertkompetens, the knowledge foundation wants to give the universities the opportunity to, together with business partners, develop their ability to meet the needs of the business sector in terms of competence development for working professionals in the business sector.
Sweden faces a series of complex societal challenges, at the same time as a rapid technological development leads to a comprehensive transformation of the business sector. Altogether, this contributes to changed and increasing needs for relevant knowledge and competence, needs that can no longer be solely met through the addition of newly graduated individuals. An increasingly important contribution will therefore be competence development of already working professionals and recurrent education during the working life.
To many universities, working students are a newly added target group that prompts adaptations of the educational activities in order to be able to meet the group’s needs and conditions for education in an appropriate manner.
The Expertkompetens programme contributes by enabling the research and education environment to start up or renew educational collaboration with the business sector through competence-enhancing educational activities for working professionals. The programme also contributes by strengthening the relationship between academia and the business sector in areas related to the environment’s research orientations, thus contributing to profiling.
| Project title | University | Project leader | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CyberGuard Academy: Empowering Expert Competence in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics | Halmstad University | Mohamed Eldefrawy | 2024-09-02 | 2027-08-30 |
| ExSus II – Expert Competence for Sustainable Production (KK-miljö) | University West | Joel Andersson | 2023-01-01 | 2026-12-31 |
| KOLS – Competence development for Organization and Management of a Digitized and Sustainable Society (KK-miljö) | University West | Kristina Johansson | 2023-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| DRIVEN - Expert Competence for Data-Driven Industrial Transformation | Mid Sweden University | Stefan Forsström | 2022-10-01 | 2026-09-30 |
| Smart Industry | Linnaeus University | Martin Kroon | 2022-09-01 | 2026-08-31 |
| Professional Master in Information Security (PROMIS) | Blekinge Institute of Technology | Tony Gorschek | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| WISER - Digital transformation and industrial excellence (KK-miljö) | University of Skövde | Tehseen Aslam | 2021-04-01 | 2025-03-31 |
| Data analytics and service innovation based on artificial intelligence – MAISTR (KK-miljö) | Halmstad University | Stefan Byttner | 2021-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| ISE - Improving value creation throhugh Service Education | Karlstad University | Carolina Camén | 2020-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| Data-Driven Service Innovation: Advanced Education for Professionals | University of Borås | Daniel Yar Hamidi | 2020-05-01 | 2025-12-31 |
