A policy lab enabling lifelong learning
The growing demand for advanced skills and lifelong learning, particularly in advanced digitalisation, is a challenge for universities, higher education institutions (HEIs), and the industry due to to policy-related obstacles.
Advanced Digital Skills Policy Lab for Academic Transformation (ADAPT) will focus on:
– designing new, flexible models to improve advanced digital skills education, surpassing current structures.
Expected outcomes
- A comprehensive overview of national systems, pilots or private solutions to avoid pitfalls.
- A needs analysis of stakeholders including individual learners, companies and authorities.
- An analysis of organisational structures and reflection on how they support or hinder agile, flexible education delivery, as well as relevant pedagogy.
- An experimental sandbox (policy lab) for iterative experimentation within the HEIs – so that new policy can be empirically validated in the short term before being adopted in the long term.
- A concept model for lifelong learning in the field of advanced digitisation aimed at industry experts.
A 3-year research project
KTH Royal institute of Technology runs the project together with Chalmers, Linköping University, and Örebro University.
Time span
2024-2026
Background
Due to policy-related obstacles, the growing demand for advanced skills and lifelong learning, particularly in advanced digitalisation, is a challenge for universities, higher education institutions (HEIs), and the industry.
Funding
With support from Vinnova – Sweden’s innovation agency – within the Advanced Digitalisation programme
Aim and objectives
ADAPT aims to explore the potential benefits of policy changes in this domain, through the establishment of an Advanced Digital Skills Policy Lab for Academic Transformation (ADAPT) that will perform thorough evaluation of various policy modifications in higher education. The work will be done in collaboration with industry stakeholders and government entities.
Expected outcome
The expected outcome is one or more flexible models to improve advanced digital skills education, surpassing current structures. The project will generate knowledge about necessary policy changes and implementation mechanisms, substantiated by concrete experiments and trials. This project explores opportunities to which policy changes could contribute to the supply of advanced digitalisation skills, with the aim to create a well-functioning, adaptable educational concept model for the industrial sector.
Research output
Findings will be disseminated nationally and internationally in both academia and industry.
Research publications can be found here later on.