Digitalisation has arrived in the water industry. There is no longer a debate about whether digitalisation is necessary, but only when and in what form. A study at Hof University of Applied Sciences found that the implementation of digitalisation solutions available on the market is still very hesitant in some cases. Communication and knowledge issues are the main obstacles to decisive and targeted implementation, both on the municipal application side and among solution providers. The main task here is to overcome the so-called generation gap between baby boomers and digital natives. With the "DigitalDialogue4.0" project funded by the DBU Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, the Bundesverband KOMMUNAL 4.0 e.V., Hof University of Applied Sciences and HST Systemtechnik GmbH & Co. KG are now developing the first certificate training course on digitalisation in water management.
This training course aims to provide representatives of local authorities and industry with technical tasks (technicians/engineers) with a comprehensive overview of the core elements of digitalisation in water management. In order to ensure a high practical component, existing course systems from the field and speakers with extensive practical experience will be combined. In addition, participants will be given the opportunity to contribute their own use cases to the course and work on them as part of the assessment.
To ensure that the continuing education course can also be recognised by engineering students as part of their degree course, the content and form of the course is based on the requirements of a lecture for a Master's degree course with 6 ECTS. The course therefore comprises lectures totalling 45 teaching units of 45 minutes each and around 150 hours of individual work by the participants, e.g. in the form of project work.
The course development is planned in an agile form. This means that before the final and publicly accessible certificate training programme is completed, individual elements will be offered to the public in various lecture events and webinars and scientifically monitored, e.g. through surveys. This will be followed by several test events, which will also be scientifically analysed. In this way, user experience and topics in demand can be incorporated into the course development at a very early stage. In addition, a second certificate training programme is planned for the master craftsman/journeyman level, in particular for the field of electrical/automation technology in water management.
The project is being managed by Hof University of Applied Sciences. Enquiries about the project and the events and webinars held in advance can be sent to the Bundesverband KOMMUNAL 4.0 e.V. (www.bvk4-0.de) should be addressed.
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