CROSSMINDS wants to respond to three recent developments: stimulating lifelong learning for professionals, the clear interest in cross-border mobility of professionals and students and exploiting the opportunities within distance learning.
The project will realize teaching modules that are specifically aimed at professionals and (engineering) students with a technical profile. The overarching theme is 'smart industries' in which the universities involved from Hasselt, Leuven, Ghent, Maastricht and Fontys University of Applied Sciences will each develop one module. Students and professionals will follow one or more teaching modules together online and physically. The teaching module is challenge-based and offers opportunities to work in a cross-border and multidisciplinary team on a real-life case presented by a chosen professional. New collaborations between researched project partners may also be possible, for example by organizing inspiration days in which new initiatives are proposed with a view to further cross-border collaboration.