The world globalization sets more stringent requirements to high technical school graduates. Besides professional competences including a certain number of skills a modern specialist must not only be a master in his/her field but in compliance with the Federal State Educational Standards of Higher Professional Education is able to read foreign scientific and technical literature, find out neces...

This paper is about the knowledge transferring between IT-consultants. IT-consultants are involved in many complex and challenging situations. They need to manage organisational, semantic and technical issues. Managing this complexity requires a high and a variety of competences. Examples of competences needed are business development, project management, information system development methods ...

The article discusses issues related to STEM education; it is emphasized that the need to prepare students with twenty-first-century skills through STEM-related teaching is strong, especially at the elementary level. The authors stress that workshops, using kits to build and program robots, are a modern form of interdisciplinary education of children and youth. The rationale for conducting such...

Today's economic crisis has led to bankruptcy of many successful, but usually large-sized enterprises. This brought into question the future of large-sized enterprises. However, the only alternative to largesized enterprises (LEs) is networking of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into Regional Production Networks (RPNet). RPNet is non-hierarchical organizational form in which every SME...

Inventive design requires specific competences. Designing means create new concepts out of acquired knowledge. To reach such a goal cognitive competences are required. TRIZ is a theory for inventive problem solving which is based on the abstraction of knowledge and of the description of the problems to solve, to be able to make analogies with any technical domain. This principle of abstraction ...

This study aimed to learn the nurses' opinion concerning the work they perform with families in the context of the Family Health Program and which are the necessary competences to accomplish it. This is an exploratory-descriptive study, of qualitative nature, carried out with 20 nurses who worked at a Family Health Center. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview and the Bard...

The objective of this research was to identify the competences profile of the healthcare Unit Manager's and verify if it facility the implementation of the new clinical and managerial models proposed. To understand the changes in the health care management, the authors have analyzed the social transformation in their historical and dynamic context; the research-action methodology was chosen bec...

| Nowadays it is more important than ever for companies to understand what their \core competences" are and how they can maintain their competitive advantage by forming alliances with partners to provide customers with services that knit together seamlessly. Entire value chains consisting of powerful business alliance partners will compete as single entities { ecosystems { for customers. This r...

This paper introduces the EMuRgency project. The project has the goal to increase awareness and competences regarding the problem of cardiac arrest in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine (EMR) and to use socio-technical innovations to transfer it into a smart learning region. Based on the conscious competence framework solutions for stakeholders on different levels of the framework are introduced, namely a...