Master's Programme focused on the practical application of Advanced Digital Skills within European Companies

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The DIGITAL4Business European Master's Programme aims to design and implement a highly innovative, effective, and sustainable European Master's Programme in Advanced Digital Skills. This contributes to the overall objectives of the DIGITAL Europe Programme by fast-tracking a high number of graduates through a dynamic pan-European stakeholder ecosystem. In the latter, HEIs, Research Centres, Employment Services, and Industry work together to design, promote, deliver and improve an innovative Master's Programme. It will focus on the practical application of Advanced Digital Skills within European Business, an entirely market-led academic programme driven and designed to meet the current and future (up)-skill needs of SMEs and Companies. The Master's modules will focus on the practical application of advanced Digital Skills within Business, including topics such as AI, cybersecurity, and the cloud. The latter skills are pivotal to European businesses' ongoing competitiveness and growth. Modules will blend academic and industry content to ensure that graduates are equipped with theoretical and employment-ready digital skills that will undoubtedly ensure career success for the candidates. Their degrees will be academically accredited by the hosting institutions and comprise industry certification through the key IT leading sector partners. DIGITAL4Business fosters the industry-recognised certifications as a critical element of the learning pathway. Online teaching and learning environments will be used, combining in-house tools of the participating universities and a new 'Master's as a Service' central online platform to enhance learning opportunities for part time students and professionals already in employment. In addition, mentoring programmes with industry partners, hackathons, industry-focused project-based learning, and coaching on soft skills and job profiles will be offered during the programme. The programme DIGITAL4Business will deliver a higher education Master’s programme at ISCED Level 7 with 60 ECTS credits in two different formats, Part-Time and Full-Time, to appeal to different groups of learners. We aim to launch multiple part- and full-time cohorts within the 4-year project duration, with at least 1 part- and 2 full-time cohorts completed within the 4-year duration of the project. The initial part- and full-time cohorts will be deployed as pilots, with cyclical review and improvement after each year.