Academic report, by a Commission or a Working Group

18 Oct Slovenia: an Innovative Society without Engineers?

Engineering Academy of Slovenia (IAS)
2010
How to reach the aim of Slovenia being an innovative society, developing new value, basing on sustainable development, fostering national and intellectual property? Science and industry shell enable this with accelerated technological development. Science and technological development are the conditions for employment of population, competitiveness, export and positive state budget. In this collection there are articles of speakers at the conference “Slovenia: an Innovative Society without Engineers?”, organised by the Slovenian Academy of Engineering.
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18 Oct Engineering Research in Irish Economic Development

Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE)
2010
The paper highlights the importance of Engineering Research to the future success of the Irish economy. The paper recommends that the overriding criterion for the Government’s research funding should be the impact of the research on the economy, in the short to medium term. The paper also addresses the need for greater collaboration between universities, research institutes and institutes of technology, through the establishment of Engineering Research Platforms in selected topics of national importance. It emphasises the need for much closer involvement of industry with the Schoolsof Engineering.
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18 Oct Value Creation and Employment in Germany

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2011
At the latest with the onset of the financial crisis, the subject of economic growth and thus of value creation has come to the forefront of public interest. The sustained discussion about limited resources and demographic change reinforces the mistrust that some parts of society harbor against so-called “economic growth.” This acatech volume discusses the question as to how growth that entails growing prosperity is possible given the limited resources and impending demographic changes and makes the argument for a new type of growth: growth that, on the one hand, secures the wealth and employment level in Germany and, on the other, is not exclusively dependent on finite resources. The innovative capacity of Germany plays a huge role in terms of this “new” growth, which is not only based on “more of the same.”.
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18 Oct Monitoring of Motivation Concepts for Young Professionals in Technology (MoMoTech)

National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
2011
Many institutions, corporations, clubs, associations and individuals in Germany are committed to the promotion of young talent in science and engineering at this point. In particular in the extracurricular area, many projects and programs have emerged over the last years. The offers include the promotion of general interest in technology to the promotion of talents up to the search for junior staff for companies. But how effective are these multifarious initiatives and projects with regard to the objectives? The Academy’s “MoMoTech” project addresses this question by applying the methods of empirical social research. Alongside a comprehensive stock-taking of model projects for technological and engineering education and the creation of a database, the entities and initiators of such projects were interviewed and the project biographies traced. Beyond that, 16 projects were selected, ranging from the “garage project” to the large “technology event,” and evaluated in terms of effectiveness for the target groups focused on. On the basis of these findings, the study infers a number of success indicators as well as scientifically sound recommendations for action, providing an important stimulus for the political, didactic and methodological debate about technological and engineering education.
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18 Oct Computing Qualifications included in the 2014 Key Stage 4 Performance Tables: a guide for schools

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
This guide, produced by the Royal Academy of Engineering in association with in association with the BCS Academy of Computing, the Computing at School working group (CAS) and Next Gen Skills is designed to help schools make sense of the sometimes confusing landscape of computing qualifications.
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18 Oct Enhancing Engineering Higher Education

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Outputs of the national HE STEM programme - The National HE STEM programme (2009-12) took place against a backdrop of significant change in the higher education systems in England and Wales. Tuition fees, arrangements for student finance and control of student numbers all changed in a move to put the student at the centre of higher education.
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18 Oct Young researchers futures meeting: Neural engineering

Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (RAEng)
2012
Abstracts from a three-day conference organised by the Institute of Digital Healthcare and the Royal Academy of Engineering Panel for Biomedical Engineering.
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