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>> From this month, the EU funded project NanoEIS will investigate the European labour market for personnel trained in nanotechnology. The relevance of existing nanotechnology education and training in universities, vocational training institutes and secondary schools for the needs of industrial and other employers will also be explored. By 2015, a model curriculum will be made available online.
>> Nanotechnology is an emerging area with strong implications for European society and industry. It is a challenge for the education system to integrate this interdisciplinary and transsectoral subject into curricula shaped mostly along classical disciplines.
>> NanoEIS will assess the following three aspects:
Based on a thorough assessment of employer needs NanoEIS will make recommendations for curriculum contents as well as for best practice strategies to implement them.
>> The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - CERTH is one of the partners for this EU project, funded under Framework Programme 7 for Research and Technology Development.
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