Carousel Week 2025
The Blended Intensive Program (BIP) 2025, themed “Industry 4.0: Optimization of the Value Chain,” took place from March 31 to April 4, 2025. Hosted by the FH JOANNEUM, Institute Industrial Management, this program aimed to foster intercultural understanding and provide new insights into industrial engineering studies. Students from the Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany, the Slovak Republic, and Lithuania gathered to explore the latest trends and solutions for optimizing the value chain.
Entrepreneurial and Doctoral Mobility
Three entrepreneurs and one PhD candidate spent 3 months at FH JOANNEUM
Bridging Academia and Industry for the Green Transition
This year’s EU4DUAL conference focused on the Green Economy and the Future of Work. Dr. Erika Varga, Associate Professor at Neumann János University, participated in the “New Technologies for Green Economy” roundtable in Bidart, France. She presented Kecskemét city’s hydrogen-based public transport plans. This positioned the University as the academic voice in an interdisciplinary discussion on energy challenges, featuring industry experts, technology developers, and policymakers, emphasizing the crucial future role of hydrogen energy in transportation.
Environmental Technologies BIP in Germany
An intensive one-week BIP in Germany where students explored environmental technologies through company visits, expert lectures and collaborative international teamwork. The programme offered a practical, short-term mobility experience within the EU4Dual Alliance, allowing participants to apply engineering knowledge in real industrial contexts.
Industry Forum on Pioneering Dual Education
Kick-off event which was the first edition of a future EU4Dual event series for industry and business partners
Challenges in creating pedagogical materials for the industrial environment
Industry 4.0 is transforming manufacturing — and training must keep pace. We explore the challenges of designing pedagogical materials for industrial operators: from knowledge gaps and time constraints, to language barriers and resistance to new technologies.
Innovative training materials — IoT integrated into composite material manufacturing
IoT is reshaping composite manufacturing — but are engineers ready? We look at new training materials designed to bridge the gap between telecommunications and mechanical engineering students, using real-world industrial applications as the learning context.
What gap analysis reveals — operators’ needs in the Industry 4.0 era
Gap analysis is a powerful tool for industrial transition. We examine what it reveals about operators’ skill needs as manufacturers move from machine automation to connected, data-driven systems — and why training design must follow.
Co-Creation Session on Circular Business Models for the Textile Industry under Horizon Europe
On 15 May, 2025, a co-creation session brought together representatives from Savonia, MUE, MGEP, ESTIA and Zabala to collaboratively explore a Horizon Europe call focused on circular business models in the textile industry. The session began with a warm-up exchange aimed at presenting the research teams and their respective approaches, followed by a joint working session to integrate knowledge and develop concrete ideas. Although the exercise did not result in a project proposal, it fostered
ESTABLISHING LOGISTICS START-UP COMPANIES: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS
The article examines the macroeconomic role of institutions in encouraging logistics start-up companies in the transportation and warehousing sector. It assumes start-ups succeed better in countries with high-quality institutional systems. Using comparative analysis and econometric models, the study compares statistical data of EU member states, integrating indices like the World Governance Indicator and Human Development Index to demonstrate the crucial role of institutions in fostering successful logistics ventures.