The project focused on new digital approaches to work needed in Europe, representing a true digital revolution in process and skills management. The aim was to improve existing national and local ecosystems by spreading innovation and a new digital transformation process. Another important objective is to provide services to universities to strengthen their innovation by offering curricula and services related to I4.0 opportunities. The DigiWork project supported activities to bridge the gap between European Higher Education (HE) system partners and partners in other European countries, combining the partners' experiences and taking into account all the detailed analyses to develop innovative modules to enable digitisation. Through DigiWork, the key competences needed to create the skilled workforce required by Industry 4.0 in a highly industrialised Europe have been identified.
Digital technologies are transforming the lives of people, businesses and society. The lessons of the Covid-19 crisis show that Europe needs a seamless combination of real and virtual business contexts, leading to so-called integrated digital systems. What is needed is the integration of online devices and work tools, the digitalisation of workflows and multiple innovative production systems within a network of suppliers, together with the application of new activities and operating methods at different technical levels. The task of the DigiWork project was to contribute to research, reports, exchange of good practices, sectoral analysis and definition of the most innovative digital learning needs in order to bridge the gap between the requirements of the digital labour market and the skills acquired by students entering the labour market, through the development and implementation of appropriate curricula and/or courses.