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ECQA News
Q2/2018
Highlights:
ECQA Certified Innovation in Education
and BLUEPRINT Strategy in the
European Union
InnoTEACH Conference
EuroAsiaSPI 2018 Conference

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1. InnoTEACH Project
1.1. Creating Innovation Mindset already in Schools
The research and development of new and improved services, systems, and products is an important
driver for the European market. Innovation requires people that can interact in innovation teams,
innovative and new ideas, creative environments supporting the creation of
innovation, and innovation processes that support the entire chain from idea
creation to the implementation of an inno-vation project. Innovation is
intimately linked with entrepreneurship. Ideas, Inno-vation and
Entrepreneurship are considered the keys to a wealthy and sustainable
economy. The InnoTEACH project empowers the innova-tion mind-set in the European Union by
establishing learning environments in schools which fertilize the grounds for young people to apply
innovation princi-ples in problem solving and learning about entrepreneurship concepts at the same
time. “InnoTEACH” is a European project that transfers the innovation best practices from industry to the
education and certification of school teachers.
 Above 70 teachers certified in Slovenia, Hungary, Austria
 Innovation training established
 Teachers are mentors and create the new generation of innovative citizens and students
1.2. Skills Set for InnoTEACH teachers
The InnoTEACH skills set structure is outlined in the Fig. below. There are three main skills units: U1
Development of Innovation, U2 Innovative Teaching, and U3 Making Innovation Work. U stands for Skills
Unit.
2. DRIVES Project – an EU BLUEPRINT Innovation Strategy
2.1. DRIVES Project – an EU BLUEPRINT Innovation Strategy
The Automotive industry is currently undergoing a dramatic innovation. Vehicles get connected and
autonomous. The powertrain gets electrified and CO2 emissions have to be reduced. Intelligent service
architectures for future e-mobility services are created. Production is more and more automated and

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controlled by robots and plants are managed online and a distributed network of engineering sites and
plants. Multidisciplinary and multi-cultural expert teams are working together. New international norms
for cybersecurity and functional safety have to be fulfilled. And the law and the environment are
changing in parallel. While currently the driver is assured, in future self-driving cars there will no more a
driver. New energy transport mechanisms are needed when moving to electrified cars. New innovations
are supported to get material lighter, cars safer, longer distance drive with e-mobility possible. And e-
mobility will also lead to new city and business service concepts. When we look at industry and
universities, where do we address these new movements and how is the industry sufficiently supported?
The Automotive industry is the largest employer in Europe, if we lose that step of innovation it could be
an economical earthquake for Europe. DRIVES is a BLUEPRINT project supported by the European Union
to set up a pool of qualifications for the automotive industry that shall help them in this change process.
2.2. Drives Pool of Skills in Future
The below figure illustrates that DRIVES plans a bigger framework of job roles supported by a
skills council and mapped towards a pool of services that can be directly accessed by ACEA
(European Automotive Manufacturer Association) and CLEPA (European Automotive Supplier
Association).
3. ELIC Project – Innovation in Natural Science Education
The Automotive industry is currently undergoing a dramatic innovation. Mechatronic solutions integrate
knowledge about mechanics, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and informatics. Generations of
students were specialising on one field, while current solutions require architects that can combine these
different subject fields to one solution in automotive industry. For instance, battery systems require

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nowadays such a combination of skills, where chemistry is used to build Li cells. Physics is used to create
the circuit and resistors to control the loading of cells. Voltage sensors are used as input to an electronic
(ECU – Electronic control unit) to control loading and avoid overloading. And temperature sensors are an
input to the ECU to identify temperature and avoid overheating and outgasing of explosive H gas.
Mathematical models are used in the control algorithms. And Software I developed and executed on the
ECU. Etc. The future car industry needs engineers to think outside the box, across different disciplines
and who are capable of multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural team-working. ELIC (Engineering Literacy
Online - Teachers as Medium for Change) is an EU project supported under the Erasmus+ program which
develops an ECQA (European Certification and Qualification Association) compliant skills set and exam
for teachers, as well as a MOOC platform to train teachers to teach interconnected science examples for
Automotive.
Training modules consider complex car systems and assign specific knowledge to subjects and exercises
in the school.
4. OpenInno Teach Project – Exchanging Innovation Best Practices
OpenInnoTeach is a new EU project that starts in autumn 2018. This project financially supports the
exchange of teachers at university and in industry to exchange staff and work on common innovtion
topics.
Such topics are driven by the industry demand, such as exchanging researcgs for e.g. industry 4.0 best
practice exchange.

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5. InnoTEACH Conference, Krems, Austria, 29.6.2018
Together with the ECQA a conference is organized with the INNOTEACH partners. Experience
reports about how to teach innovation in schools will be presented. University of Applied
Sciences in Krems has innovation related study programs and teachers from the university will
also report experiences. Different international key notes will present, e.g. Grenoble INP in
France, Austrian Computer Society, ECQA, etc.
The attendance is free of cost. Participants are invited to the social events free of cost.
Program 29th June 2018, Krems, Austria
08.30 -
09.30
Registration
09.30 -
09.50
Creativity and Innovation - How are they related?
Dr Andreas Riel, Grenoble INP, France
09.50 -
10.10
Experience with Innovation Studies at University Level
Dr Manfred Pferzinger, University of Applied Sciences, Krems,
Austria
10.10 -
10.30
ECQA - Europe Wide Certification Schema
Prof. Michael Reiner, University of Applied Sciences Krems
10.30 -
10.50
Innovation in teaching networked natural sciences - The ELIC
Project
University of Applied Sciences Joanneum, Cramars, Italy, FH
Düsseldorf, Germany
10.50 -
11.10
Coffee Break
11.10 -
11.40
INNOTEACH Vision and Strategy
Prof. Borut Likar, Korona plus, Slovenia
11.40 -
12.00
INNOTEACH Experience Report from Austria
Irene Neissl, Beate Fuchs, Michaela Puntigam, Evelyn Schroettner,
Juergen Mack, ORG Schulschwestern, Graz, Austria
12.00 -
12.20
INNOTEACH Experience Report from Hungary
IT Study, Hungarian Schools, Hungary
12.20 -
12.35
OpenInmnoTeach and RISE - a New EU Initiative to Connect
for Innovation
Bruno Wöeran, Merinova, Finland
12.35 -
12.55
DRIVES - The EU BLUEPRINT Innovation Project for
Automotive Skills in 2030
Jakub Stolfa, Svatopluk Stolfa, VSB TUO, Czech Republic
12.55 -
13.30
Lunch Buffet
13.30 - Creating an environment for innovation

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13.50 Sonja Stepancic, Trnovo, Slovenia
13.50 -
14.10
Innovation is just around the corner
Petra Radujko, Margareta Obrovnik, Hlac•ar, Bernardka Uratnik,
Louisa Adamica Grosuplje, Slovenia
14.10 -
14.30
The Austrian Computer Society - Experiences with
Certification in Schools (ECDL) and Future Developments
Expected
Dr Ronald Bieber
14.45 -
15.15
Certficates are handed out with original signature and hand shake
by the ECQA President.
16.00 Social Event - Wine Tasing - Invitation by ISCN GsmbH
Registration for the Conference
Registration is free. The participants are invited to social events for free. For Austrian
participants there is a bus from ORG Schulschwestern starting Friday morning and going back
Friday evening, paid by the project.
Please register by email with Eva Christof, Email: echristof(at)iscn.com.
6. EuroSPI and EuroAsiaSPI, 5-9 September 2018
EuroSPI is a conference series which was founded 1994 and its 25th
annual event takes place in
Bilbao, Spain, 5-7 September 2018. EuroSPI stands for European System, Software, Service,
Safety, and Security, Process and Product, Improvement, Innovation, and Infrastructure.
SPRINGER and WILEY as major publishers support the event and there are nearly three hundred
thousand chapter downloads from SPRINGER online for the EuroSPI books in the last 10 years.
http://www.eurospi.net
This year we have key notes from leading companies and from the EU / ACEA (European
Association of Automobile Manufacturers), who will provide an insight into innovation and
changes to come (EU BLUEPRINT, Rheinmetall AG Innovation Roadmapping, Sony, etc.). In
addition there are 10 international workshops for current hot topics (moderated by leading indstry
and universities), such as
1. Gamification of SPI
2. SPI in Industry 4.0
3. Best Practices in Implementing Traceability
4. Good and Bad Practices in Improvement
5. Functional Safety and Cybersecurity
6. SPI and Agile and Lean
7. International Standards and Norms
8. Team Skills, Accessability, and Diversity
9. SPI in Medical Device Industry

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10. Empowering the Future Infrastructure (Automotive Industry, GEAR 2030 &
DRIVES)
From this year onwards our web site is mobile enabled. Also at EuroSPI we will provide a
Virtual Reality App for gamification and for viewing the final program onsite. We also plan
special social events with a boat, and a second with the Guggenheim Museum and a Micheline
star cook.
See you soon in Bilbao, lets join our strengths together for a European event.
7. Innovation is the Core to Success
There is the physical law of entropy with an entropy constant, which is valid across the universe.
This constant says that without creative force everything decomposes by a specific standard rate.
By creative human minds, the talents of people can be awakened as a force to work against this
entropy and help to create a future and new ideas. Lets build on the creative force of human
minds.
Statements from Einstein as a guide for the future generations:
 "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
 "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
 "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true
art and science."
 "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
 "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
 "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive
knowledge."
We are grateful to the European Commission which has funded the Erasmus+ projects
InnoTEACH, DRIVES, ELIC, and OpenInnoTrain / RISE.