Over the last decade there has been a continuous growth in innovation, which is a key factor in the competitiveness. Students' skills acquisition are essential to enhance their employability. Higher education institutions need to ensure that they equip their graduates with the appropriate and up-to-date skills. However, 40% of European employers have expressed difficulty in finding people with the right skills.
InnEO Space PhD is a H2020 project designed to create new synergies between PhD students and researchers and potential employers and specifically tackle future skills mismatches. The goal is to prepare young researchers for a successful career by developing modernized and transferable PhD courses and learning resources based on innovation skills and employers’ needs as well as in-depth knowledge of high stakes and approaches of Earth Observation in any application domains. The Inn’EO Space PhD project develop researchers’ innovation-oriented mindset and skills through Earth Observation, that offers a multidisciplinary approach and applications in various sectors (environment, climate change, crisis management…).
InnEO'Space_PhD relies on a consortium of European partners across 3 European countries (FR, IT, RO). This consortium collaborates with companies, SMEs and clusters.
Together, they organise activities such as the InnEO schools with a focus on Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation, Open science and innovation and soft skills, as well as Startech training programs on entrepreneurial skills. All activities include career development aspects to raise awareness about opportunities in and outside academia. In addition, to respond to the needs of digitalisation and facilitate the implementation by other universities, the activities are organised face-to-face and online relying on newly developed and later open SPOCs, methodology and material.
