Industry and engineering education interacting in an interregional project: a Flanders' perspective

The Interreg-IVa 2-Seas project i-MOCCA (“interregional MObility and Competence Centers in Automation”) concentrates on two fast evolving topics in industrial automation: industrial data communication and embedded control [1]. Both require high-end training of practicing engineers in industry and demonstrators illustrating proof-of-principle of emerging technologies. The i-MOCCA project aims to develop competence centers in different universities in the coastal regions of the UK, France and Flanders, Belgium. The project started in July 2011 and ends in September 2014.

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[2]  G. Deconinck,et al.  Drive systems with torsional load: Versatile low-cost educational laboratory set-up , 2011, Proceedings of the 2011 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications.

[3]  Jos Knockaert,et al.  Low-cost PROFIBUS DP Slave Shield for embedded controllers , 2016, 2016 IEEE 21st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA).