Sustainable Industry 4.0 for European Union

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Jean Monnet Module titled Sustainable Industry 4.0 for European union (SI4.0forEU) is dedicated a) to establish the academic core to improving the awareness of EU challenges referring new EU industrial change and support through its industrial policy and through research and infrastructure. Dealing with the phenomena of Sustainable Industry, outline forthcoming interdisciplinary research program and related materials as a mechanism for improving implementation of the EU grand strategy Europe 2050 and b) student focused education with the aim to develop independence and critical thinking of the student but nevertheless also contributing to the social cohesion and local environmental sustainability. As advanced interdisciplinary EU studies the Module is attempted to offer learning tools that could be utilised in other environments through Europe, to contribute to awareness of EU grand strategies and their implementation through other programmatic documents. It is important to mention Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to point out in particular Goal 4 (Target 4.7 that aims by 2030, to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development), Goal 7 that aims at ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services and substantially increasing the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. and Goal 12 that aims at ensuring responsible consumption and production patterns everywhere in the world, because they relate to European (EU) stories. The title of the Module reveals that industrial sustainability (4.0), whose prominence overlaps with the speeding-up of digitalization and information society, transcend the boundaries of various systems, also includes social systems.