The European mobility industry is facing difficult times. A multitude of hyper-dynamic factors such as disruptive technologies or changing consumer behavior require a continuous reorientation of companies, their employees and especially their technical staff (in the sense of engineers). Technology companies (not only in the mobility sector) are faced with the major challenge of designing, managing and integrating learning processes and learning environments in order to create a lifelong learning ecosystem and prepare employees for the changes in their work environment. The upskilling and reskilling of engineers in technology-orientated companies, such as manufacturing companies along the mobility value chain, is one of the key challenges that European industry will have to face in the coming years to remain competitive. The EU-funded project ‘Engineering Excellence for the Mobility Value Chain’ (EE4M) therefore addresses the increasing need for training in companies involved in the European mobility value chain. EE4M focuses primarily on the discipline of operations management, which is undergoing extraordinary change due to the two politically motivated drivers of ‘sustainability’ and ‘digitalization’. One teaching focus of courses within the future-oriented discipline of Operations Management is therefore on the transformation of production processes, which leads to a change in the work and initiate (continuous) learning processes of engineers. This presents educational institutions with the challenge of analyzing these requirements and meeting them in terms of successfully implementing a sustainable and digital mobility industry. Finally, EE4M aims at the professional development (re- and upskilling) of intelligent (digital) and sustainable competences of engineers in the mobility value chain through innovative educational modules, which will ultimately be made available to the actors of the European mobility value chain on a transnational platform.

Keywords: Engineering Education, Reskilling, Upskilling, Engineering Excellence.