Money to digitize the industry
Vinnova grants KTH and three other universities SEK 25 million for ADAPT – a new business model for industrial skills development.
The need for advanced skills development and lifelong learning is great – and increasing – especially in the rapidly growing areas of advanced digitalization.
KTH, together with Chalmers, Linköping, and Örebro University, will develop a new business model for skills conversion in industry and the public sector through the ADAPT project.
![Mattias Wiggberg, Researcher at INDEK, KTH. (ITM_Mattias_Wiggberg200.jpg) Portrait Mattias Wiggberg](/polopoly_fs/1.1299800.1701255009!/image/ITM_Mattias_Wiggberg200.jpg)
”Both industry and universities and colleges are struggling to meet the demand for skills development. However, several policy-related barriers, including funding, legislation, culture, and incentives, create challenges to making this a reality," says Mattias Wiggberg , KTH, who leads the project.
The project aims to explore and test the opportunities that a changed policy could contribute to the supply of competence development for advanced digitalization.
”By creating a policy lab for advanced digitalization, we can qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the effects of various policy changes in the higher education sector. Gradually, we can build a new, functioning business model for skills development," continues Mattias Wiggberg.
Text: Anna Gullers