Introduction
- Nowadays, SMEs require more and more easy access to mechatronical innovations and research to be able to compete in the market. Thereby is the demand for mechatronical engineers and retraining courses for current highly specialized professionals also increasing.
The Mechatronics Centre provides all of these. Gradually the network of mechatronics centres should evolve into transfer places of innovation technologies primarily for SMEs in European regions. The creation of the centre in the SWB region will initiate changes in the educational and retraining processes.
Activities and expected results:
The philosophy of the subproject is a gradual elaboration of a network
of mechatronics centres as transfer places of innovation technologies
primarily for SMEs in European regions.
The centres of mechatronics can significantly speed up the development
of the regions through newly created cooperations. It is supposed that
the creation of the centre in the SWB region will initiate changes
in the educational and retraining processes. These changes will lead
to the improvement of professional skills of existing and future workers
from SMEs in the region.
The work on the subproject will concentrate on creating a platform
for future cooperation between domestic and foreign SMEs, research
and development centres and universities. Thus, it significantly improves
the level of education.
Who and how can utilize the results of the Mechatronics centre
subproject?
Nowadays, SMEs especially require more and more easy access to mechatronical
innovations and research to be able to compete in the market. The demand
for mechatronical engineers and retraining courses for current highly
specialized professionals is also growing. The Mechatronics Centre
will provide all of these.
Last, but not least, the Mechatronics Centre will help SMEs in individual
regions to solve their problems by locating appropriate know-how in
other regions.
What competitive advantage does the Mechatronics centre subproject
offer?
Through the mechtronics centres, local SMEs can start cooperation
with innovation and research institutions in different regions easily,
which will help them to succeed in the market. The mechatronics centres
will also gather knowledge of the market and the involved companies
will be granted access to this information.
Obtained results
Systems of Mechatronics education were studied and educational materials were collected from project partners. The mechatronics laboratory was created, giving the opportunity to renew and prepare further research on several mechatronical models (e.g. nonlinear graph plotter and rotary inverted pendulum).
The subproject participants expressed the intention and good will to continue in the cooperation that was started within this subproject by signing the ‘Future cooperation agreement’. Especially the project partners from North Brabant and Catalonia came up with detailed project proposals (Erasmus Mundus in mechatronics, McArm project and Labs on line). |
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Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni
SOUTH-WEST BOHEMIA
