With the programme Expertkompetens, the knowledge foundation wants to give the universities the opportunity to, together with business partners, develop their ability to meet the needs of the business sector in terms of competence development for working professionals in the business sector.
Sweden faces a series of complex societal challenges, at the same time as a rapid technological development leads to a comprehensive transformation of the business sector. Altogether, this contributes to changed and increasing needs for relevant knowledge and competence, needs that can no longer be solely met through the addition of newly graduated individuals. An increasingly important contribution will therefore be competence development of already working professionals and recurrent education during the working life.
To many universities, working students are a newly added target group that prompts adaptations of the educational activities in order to be able to meet the group’s needs and conditions for education in an appropriate manner.
The Expertkompetens programme contributes by enabling the research and education environment to start up or renew educational collaboration with the business sector through competence-enhancing educational activities for working professionals. The programme also contributes by strengthening the relationship between academia and the business sector in areas related to the environment’s research orientations, thus contributing to profiling.
