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The project was commissioned directly by the European Commission and will design Europes strategy for building blockchain competencies with the participation of the The NextEducation working group of the Baden Wrttemberg Cooperative State University.Industry manufacturing agriculture technology Europe leads in many sectors that can successfully apply blockchain or other distributed ledger DLT technologies. At the same time the lack of digital skills across Europe threatens to hamper and slow down innovation in this and other new technologies. In order to counteract this dynamic and to close the gap in qualified specialists the European Commission is funding the CHAISE blockCHAIn Skills for Europe project as part of Erasmus in order to identify and impart Blockchain skills for Europe.The four-year project officially started on November 18th. CHAISE plays a prominent role as a European project as it was commissioned directly by the European Commission to develop the missing European strategy for blockchain competencies. The projects consortium led by Universit Claude Bernard Lyon 1 UCBL consists of European and global leaders in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies including academic and industrial partners as well as sectoral organizations and communities .The project will help develop an innovative 5-semester qualification program in eleven EU languages In addition to the technical skills that are specific to blockchain DLTs the CHAISE curriculum will also include non-technical soft skills in order to meet the specific needs of modern Responsive work environments problem solving teamwork and a customer-centric and entrepreneurial mindset.In addition all learning materials developed as part of the project are summarized in an open online course MOOC. Finally in accordance with existing competencies and qualifications framework CHAISE develops the very first professional profile for blockchain specialists in order to ensure a common language for the description of digital skills.The NextEducation working group of the Baden-Wrttemberg Cooperative State University in Karlsruhe analyzes and defines the blockchain labor market and determines qualification needs offers and imbalances.Professor Dr. Ulf-Daniel Ehlers head of the working group explainsThe NextEducation working group at the DHBW Karlsruhe brings its proven and outstanding expertise from many years of research into future skills and future organizations to the project and thus lays the basis for sustainable competency recording and development.
