C4C - European Research on Competences for Competitiveness

In the recurring interpretations of the “Europe economic system” current negative situation, the ‘lack of competitiveness’ is frequently underlined: the “technical-scientific emergency” that impact on a country development concerns now several European economic systems, so the “European System’” in general. This is strictly tied both to the ‘level of learning’ in technical and scientific sectors and to the ‘capacity to innovate’ which is essentially generated by the ‘critical mass’ of technical expertise available to drive a country’s socio-economic development.

In other words, the dynamism of the European economy is crucially dependent on its ‘capacity to innovate”. The “C4C” project, funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme, Transversal - Key Activity 1 and started in January 2009, aims to identify the fundamental skills necessary to generate innovation in European companies (above all SMEs), pinpointing in real time the most appropriate professional profiles to develop innovation and, consequently, Competitiveness, without causing any delays in matching the demand for and supply of qualified labour, which would inevitably result in an impairment of the European economic and production systems.

Partnership:
> Alleanze per l’innovazione tecnologica – Alintec Scarl (IT)
> Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw Centre for Technology Transfer (PL)
> Auxilium pro Regionibus Europae in Rebus Culturalibus (AT)
> Université Paris 13 (FR)
> AB CENTEK Center for technology based business development at Lulea University of technology (SE)
> NSF CYBERALL ACCESS (CY)
> Escola del Treball del Ripollès (ES)
> Glasgow Caledonian University (UK)

Contacts

Laura Cavina

Tel. 051.4151911

laura.cavina@fav.it