Exploiting big data seems to be an important success factor for companies in the digital age. However, recent studies show that there is a short supply of professionals who are able to deal with data appropriately. This is at least partly caused by a mismatch between university offerings and presumed industry needs. This study analyses two related questions. First, what competences are actually...

At the University of Siegen we design within the research project “Informatics in secondary schools and e-learning to master the digital media upheaval” a contribution of informatics to foster media competences in the context of the Internet. Existing international curricula for informatics as well as information and communication technology (ICT) are analysed confining to the aspect of providi...

Industrial performance has for a long time been considered as a result of technical resources optimization. During the recent decades, competencybased approach has emerged as a promising concept for taking into account human skills/knowledge/abilities while addressing organizational goals and constraints. The aim for the companies is for instance to assess the compliance of competences acquired...

In the present landscape of technological change there is increasing awareness of the need to support the acquisition of digital competences. In this paper, the authors address how digital competences can be developed through formal learning. The authors examine and demonstrate the design of a web 2.0 learning experience implemented at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, which developed both digi...

This study aimed to better understand the current situation of risk assessment and identify the factors associated with competence of emergency responders in public health risk assessment. The participants were selected by a multi-stage, stratified cluster sampling method in Heilongjiang Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The questionnaires that measured their perceptions on risk...

BACKGROUND Primary health care is considering the cornerstone of health care in Chile. Its efficiency is strongly influenced by the quality and competences of physicians that are responsible for health care at this level. AIM To define the features and competences that should have primary care physicians. MATERIAL AND METHODS A group of experts that could be physicians or other professional...

Critical as well as creative thinking, knowledge sharing abilities and intercultural competences are considered key competences in today’s business world. Basing on the results of a study at the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology North Bangkok (Thailand) the present contribution intends to compare the study behavior of Asian students in comparison with western ones.

The requirements of an increasing globalized and competitive economy lead managers to search for training solutions which can rapidly bridge the gap of their lacking skills, knowledge or competences. To assert with adequate training programs, in particular for SMEs managers, a study was conducted in six European countries with the objective of identifying the most relevant competences they need...

Human factor is the element that produces more deviations in the costs of information technology (IT) projects. Recently, a gap between the competences required from the IT industry and the competences taught in the computer science university degrees has been proposed as a possible explanation to it. This paper further investigates this issue following several steps. First, through a questionn...