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New Dissemination Result: Publication in Avances en Ciencias de la Educación y Aplicaciones en otras Áreas – Volumen IV

MANUEL BOTEJARA, ANTONIO RIVERO-CACHO, MARÍA JOSÉ GUIJARRO-GIL, JAIME GONZÁLEZ-DOMÍNGUEZ, JOSÉ CHILO

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Abstract
Para mejorar la sostenibilidad en Europa, la Comisión Europea ha desarrollado diferentes iniciativas. Entre ellas, se encuentra el desarrollo de GreenComp que ofrece un conjunto de competencias verdes necesarias para formar a la ciudadanía. Los doctorandos y, concretamente, los de ingeniería, tiene una necesidad elevada de capacitarse en términos de sostenibilidad, ya que en un futuro se encargarán de desarrollar sus propias investigaciones y de capacitar a otros ingenieros, mejorando la sostenibilidad de la sociedad.
Este estudio, desarrollado dentro del marco de un proyecto europeo de educación superior tiene como objetivo desarrollar un programa formativo para capacitar a los estudiantes de doctorado de ingeniería en competencias verde, adquiriendo los conocimientos y habilidades necesarias de sostenibilidad para sus futurasinvestigaciones. Así, se han adaptado las competencias verdes propuestas por la Comisión Europea a través de un proceso iterativo en el que participaron investigadores y profesores de 4 universidades europeas, obteniendo indicadores de conocimientos y niveles de progresos para cada competencia verde. Tras esto, se definió un plan formativo de 22 talleres basados en metodologías activas de aprendizaje para adquirir las competencias verdes adaptadas. Se adaptaron 12 competencias verdes y se definieron un total de 48 indicadores de conocimiento para la adquisición de las competencias verde. Además, se estipularon 192 niveles de progreso. A partir del análisis realizado a un taller en concreto, se pudo extraer que el alumnado participante consiguió alcanzar un nivel de conocimiento adecuado con independencia de su especialización, concretamente para el ejemplo propuesto los alumnos adquirieron conocimientos de 4 de las 12 competencias verdepropuestas en el nuevo marco competencial. El presente estudio ofrece una formación sólida para mejorar las capacidades del estudiante de doctorado en ingeniería en términos de sostenibilidad, potenciando lashabilidades sociales, interculturales y lingüísticas.

New Dissemination Result: Report 5.1

TRAINING ACTIVITIES EVALUATION REPORT

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New Dissemination Result: Report 4.6

REPORT ON BEST PRACTICES BASED ON THE METHODOLOGY FOR COLLECTING TRAINING EXPERIENCES

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New Dissemination Result: Report 3.4

REPORT ON THE TEACHING GUIDE FOR MOOCS DEVELOPED

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New Dissemination Result: Report 2.5

GREEN AND DIGITAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR EUROPEAN ENGINEERING PHD CANDIDATES

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New Dissemination Result: Participation in the 11th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAD)

Jaime González-Domínguez , Natalya Lysova , Gonzalo Sánchez-Barroso , José Chilo , João Figueiredo, Roberto Montanari, Justo García-Sanz-Calcedo

Abstract
The TECSKILL project (Erasmus+ KA220-HED) addresses the need to integrate sustainability and digital competences into the education of European Engineering PhD students. By adapting competences from the GreenComp and DigComp 2.2 frameworks, an integrated framework was developed, encompassing 12 sustainability and 21 digital competences. To monitor the learning progress, 137 knowledge indicators were defined across four proficiency levels, ensuring a structured assessment of skill acquisition. The framework was implemented through four transnational training programs at universities in Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Sweden, providing PhD students with specialized lectures and hands-on workshops. A mid-term survey assessing student satisfaction confirmed the program’s effectiveness in enhancing competences and fostering international collaboration. Future research activities will focus on evaluating competence acquisition over the whole project, assessing the impact of the trainings on students' research and professional development, and optimizing the developed competence framework based on the final outcomes.
 Keywords: Green competences, Digital competences, Engineering, PhD Students, Innovative teaching, competence assessment


You can find the full text of the publication at the following link:  https://ocs.editorial.upv.es/index.php/HEAD/HEAd25/paper/view/20167

New Dissemination Result: Book about Green and Digital competences for engineering PhD candidates

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Methodology for prioritising training workshops on digital skills for engineering doctoral students based on DEMATEL 

Abstract 

Higher education institutions must adapt their academic structures in order to prepare students for today's challenges. Engineering doctoral students must be trained in digitalisation, as they will be responsible for conducting their own research in the future. This study, developed as part of the TECSKILL project, applies the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method to prioritise the delivery of training workshops. To this end, a competency framework was developed by adapting the 21 competencies of the DigComp 2.2 framework to the context of training. A training programme was developed based on 29 workshops that allowed participants to work on the necessary knowledge and skills. The DEMATEL method was applied to identify the most important digital competencies and thus organise the delivery of the proposed training workshops. The results show that the most relevant competences are ‘Evaluating Data, Information and Digital Content’ (DC 2) and ‘Troubleshooting technical problems’ (DC 18), identified in 10 and 8 workshops, respectively. After applying the DEMATEL method, it was determined that the workshop with the highest priority is ‘Practical workshop: management and organisation of information within research projects’, with a score of 1.351 and 15 digital skills involved. The workshop ‘Practical workshop: adequate graphical representation of scientific data and information. Flow charts, graphs, graphical abstract’, with a score of 1.311 and 15 associated skills, ranks second in the hierarchy. ‘Practical workshop: data measurement with sensors’ ranks third, with a score of 1.147 and 14 skills involved. These results enable higher education institutions to incorporate digital skills into their training programmes in a structured manner.  

Keywords: DigComp 2.2, PhD, Digital competence, DEMATEL, Higher education, Project Manager Skills.  

Curriculum design for a training programme to improve engineering PhD students' green skills



Abstract

To promote sustainability in Europe, the European Commission has launched various strategic initiatives, including GreenComp, a green skills framework for citizens. In this context, educational institutions must design training programmes that facilitate the acquisition of these skills. Doctoral students, especially those in engineering, have a notable need for sustainability training, given that their future research and teaching will directly influence the training of new engineers and the generation of knowledge geared towards sustainable transition. However, there is no history of competency frameworks specifically designed for doctoral students in engineering. This study, carried out within the framework of the TECSKILL project (Erasmus+ KA220-HED), aims to develop a green competency framework that meets the needs of future engineering researchers and to propose a transnational training programme with a dynamic, collaborative teaching approach. To this end, the competencies of the GreenComp framework were adapted, resulting in 12 green competencies and 48 knowledge indicators fortheir acquisition. Progression levels were also established for each indicator to assess skill development. Subsequently, a training programme comprising 22 workshops was designed to develop knowledge and skills in line with the new framework. These workshops will be delivered in four transnational training courses at universities in Spain, Sweden, Portugal, and Italy. The initial results of one of the pilot workshops indicate that the activities designed are practical in developing an adequate level of competence, regardless of the doctoral students' area of specialisation. In the case studied, participants acquired knowledge in 4 of the 12 established competences, which validates the relevance of the proposed training approach.

Keywords: green skills, engineering doctoral students, educational innovation, higher education

MOOC

As a result of this project, the MOOCs are available on this same website: https://hig.instructure.com/courses/10050

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