1. Towards Excellence in Engineering Curricula for Dual Education
Laureano is the coordinator of an International Project.
Laureano Jiménez Esteller
Departament of Chemical Engineering
University Rovira i Virgili
Tarragona, Spain 1

2. Alternative title #1: what is dual education?
Even a preliminary literature review reveals a lot of distinctive features how dual education is understood and implemented in different countries. In fact, we can find a plethora of (almost) synonyms that refer to very similar concepts: apprenticeship, alternance training, work-based learning, on-the-job training…
Dual education is a system that combines apprenticeships in a company and class-based learning in the same course. Trainees divide their time roughly equally between classroom and on-the-job training, with both pathways developed in parallel.
Ideally, a labor contract should exist 2

3. What is not dual education?
Perform an internship in a company
Develop the final year project in a company
Work in a company with an scholarship
Dual education goes one step beyond to the classical relationship among academia and the industrial sector

4. Alternative title #2: where is dual education relevant?
Dual education is practiced in several countries, notably Germany, Austria, and Switzerland but also for some years now in South Korea.
Germany is probably the best country for these type of studies as they have a very long and a very successful history of implementation of dual education at the vocational educational and training system. 4

5. Dual education: a fashion keyword?

6. 2014
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Strategies to survive
The hedgefox …
and the fox
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Labor market
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8. Flexibility, adaptability & multidisciplinary
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Very frequent calls.
Applied to many topics and areas.
Not very bureacratic
Flexibility, adaptability & multidisciplinary
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9. Make the right decision
FCRI
Decision making
Make the right decision
Prepare for a changing world, where steady state is never achieved and they have to be creative and innovative in order to survive/have a successful career
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10. TEEDE CBHE Erasmus+ project1
Towards Excellence in Engineering curricula for Dual Education (952 k€)
UTA
TPU
JilinU
AEER
OmSTU
KHSU
The specific objectives of the TEEDE project are the:
Strengthening relations of universities with exterior economic and social environment, creation and development of variants of the cooperation of universities and enterprises, promotion of employment of graduates;
Establishment of the unified procedure of evaluation of qualification level achieved by the persons who are studying in engineering and the recognition of learning;
Construction of the trajectory of lifelong learning for the engineers.
Develop and modernize curricula implementing the principles of the dual education.
Launch new or upgraded curricula, combining periods of study with periods of training at leading enterprises.
FEFU
UNIPV
IITK
SYLU
RUA
IITM
ITC

11. TEEDE CBHE Erasmus+ project2
Sustainable approach
The specific objectives of the TEEDE project are the:
Strengthening relations of universities with exterior economic and social environment, creation and development of variants of the cooperation of universities and enterprises, promotion of employment of graduates;
Establishment of the unified procedure of evaluation of qualification level achieved by the persons who are studying in engineering and the recognition of learning;
Construction of the trajectory of lifelong learning for the engineers.
Develop and modernize curricula implementing the principles of the dual education.
Launch new or upgraded curricula, combining periods of study with periods of training at leading enterprises.

12. Development of dual learning1
Guidelines should include the diverse circumstances of all partners
Adjust to the country policy, labor market and cultural context
Implementation of dual education
Evidenced-based decisions: meetings with stakeholders
Very different policies, very diverse procedures, many cultural differences, and therefore to obtain the success of the Project, all those barriers have to be overcomed to obtain a solution that is practical given the constraints at local, regional and/or national level.
Communicaiton: from duct to cat
Involve different stakeholders in the decisión procedure

13. Development of dual learning2
Open questions
Level: MSc or BSc?
Topic: engineering
Existing or new program?
Offered as parallel track to existing schemes (=school-based)?
Support/attitude of companies
Resistance to change
Higher education institutions are not very flexible
Here you have some of the practical questions
Level to develop dual programs: bachelor or master
Topic: different aspects related with engineering, including also chemical and petroleum engineering
Typically, both approach coexist: school and dual learning

14. Lonely silver

15. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein
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16. Towards Excellence in Engineering Curricula for Dual Education
Laureano is the coordinator of an International Project.
Laureano Jiménez Esteller
Departament of Chemical Engineering
University Rovira i Virgili
Tarragona, Spain 16