The Competence Bridge
Impactful RDI-driven skills development
RDI projects provide valuable opportunities to develop skills, competences and expertise needed in working life, but the knowledge, skills and experience gained through these projects are not always sufficiently recognised or visible. The Competence Bridge -project develops ways to identify, recognise and utilise this potential, helping to ensure that the competences gained through RDI projects can better support continuous learning, career development and the renewal of working life.
Every competence deserves recognition
Working life is changing. What about competence?
Changes in working life require continuous renewal of skills and competences. A great deal of valuable competence is developed through the research, development and innovation (RDI) activities of universities of applied sciences, but new approaches and methods are needed to identify, recognise and make effective use of it.
The Competence Bridge project develops a nationwide operating model for identifying, recognising, making visible and more effectively utilising the skills and competences developed through RDI activities.
The model aims to help meet the competence needs of working life and integrate the skills and competences developed through RDI activities into continuous learning. It is developed in collaboration with working life, piloted at five universities of applied sciences, and its adoption is promoted nationwide.
“The aim is to ensure that the skills and competences developed through RDI projects are more effectively recognised and utilised in working life and continuous learning”
A more systematic approach is needed to ensure that the skills and competences developed through RDI activities are recognised, made visible and put to effective use. This enables individuals to make better use of their own skills and competences, while enhancing the capacity of working life to utilise this competence to support renewal and competitiveness.Overall, the project supports the aim of making greater use of the competences and results generated through RDI activities as part of continuous learning.
In the Competence Bridge project:
Best practices are compiled from universities of applied sciences for identifying and making visible the skills and competences developed through RDI activities
A nationwide operating model is developed in collaboration with working life and higher education institutions
The operating model is piloted and further developed at five universities of applied sciences as part of RDI projects.
The impact of the operating model is assessed, and knowledge is generated to support its further development and nationwide adoption.
Xamk contributes, among other things, to compiling best practices and to developing and piloting the operating model. Xamk is responsible for impact assessment and for developing the related effectiveness indicator, which will provide information to support the further development and adoption of the operating model. The impact assessment utilises the HYVIÖ tool developed by Xamk. In addition, we contribute expertise in identifying skills and competences developed through RDI activities and linking them to continuous learning and the needs of working life.
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