DigiPro: Digitalization in the process industry
Porsgrunn - Part time
Find solutions in your own organization based on what you learn in our DIGIPRO course series.
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Closing dates: Expired
Study facts
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Campus: Porsgrunn -
Study level: Further education -
Progression of study: Part time -
Specialization: Digitalization in the process industry -
Start up: Not defined -
Teaching model: Online and session-based -
Credits: 5 -
Charge: Free of charge for workers from Elkem, Eramet, Jotun, Hydro and Boliden. -
Closing dates: Expired -
Semesters: 1 -
Teaching Language: English
Dates and organisation
- Individual agreement with each individual student.
What we will teach you
Each student will select two challenges from their own organization to be analyzed and proposed solutions should be based on knowledge acquired from one or more of the basic courses in the DIGIPRO course serie.
Target group
Target groups include: Managers, project managers and skilled/production workers from Elkem, Eramet, Jotun, Hydro and Boliden.
The DigiPro programme
The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skillsannounced funding in autumn of 2021 for competence building within vulnerable industrial clusters. DigiPro applied and received funding late 2021 for development of competence-building courses (EVU) for digitalization of the process industry.
The project is a collaboration between the universities and research institutions NTNU, SINTEF, UiA and USN, and the companies Boliden, Hydro, Jotun, Elkem and Eramet. The project is led by USN.
Course offerings
The industrial companies emphasized areas such as technology management, cyber security, and data analysis as the most important areas for skills development. Based on this specification will four courses be developed and implemented in this project, three basic courses in the desired areas for skills development, and an overview course named «Digitalization of the process industry». The overview course is intended to be a course where the candidates can combine the competence from any of the basic courses, based on real challenges within their own companies. The knowledge from the basic courses, together with supervising from the staff at the universities and research institutions, the candidate will make a report documenting valuable solution(s) for the company.
Costs
These courses prototypes and are free of charge for workers from Elkem, Eramet, Jotun, Hydro and Boliden.
We will at a later time offer these and other courses to all industrial companies at regular costs.
Admission requirements
A bachelors degree in a technical discipline and minimum two years working experience in the industry. The working experience must be documented by the employer describing the job and duration.
For the "Digitalization programme for the process industry"-course offered in the spring of 2023, you must have passed minimum one of the basic DIGIPRO courses offered earlier.
