Continuing professional development programs in university-industry co-operations

Given the speed with which development takes place in the telecommunications field, the need for continuing professional development (CPD) programs are outspoken. Industry needs to find ways of bringing new knowledge to the extremely busy employees in a flexible and need-lead fashion. Universities need to find ways to identify industry needs and to make CPD programs available to industry in an appropriate, learner-based way. On this background, 17 key telecom players in 6 countries, who all are concerned with the best way to meet the continuously changing need for engineering knowledge in an industry under rapid growth, will address this problem in a LEONARDO Pilot project. The project "PRO-Active Continuing Professional Development in the European Telecommunication Industry"-PRO-ACTT will focus on setting up a joint transnational industry-university co-operation.