📋 Tender Overview
Responsible Dynamic Digital Change Agents (RDDCA) for Food and Beverage (F&B) SMEs – DigiFABS aims to foster digital, resilience, and innovation skills to optimize the management of digital transformation in small and middle-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the F&B processing sector. The consortium of 14 partners from HEIs, VETs, businesses, and network organisations represents 7 European regions of diverse digitalisation levels and regions with high involvement in the F&B sector. In addition, the HEIs will engage 100 students from three disciplines and 10+ scientists from Engineering / IT, Agriculture / Nutrition and Business fields and the business network organisations will engage 15+ SMEs from the sector to pilot the course programme including (1) a multidisciplinary action learning SUMMER SCHOOL and CHALLENGE for STUDENTS to acquire the digital, green and resilience skills of a RDDCA theoretically and practically and (2) piloting of BOOTCAMPS for EDUCATORS and F&B SMEs to facilitate a RDDCA challenge in their region. The final materials will be made publicly available including introductory MOOCs.
Concrete outputs:
WP1 - Management: Project management handbook, final report
WP2 - Quality: Quality assurance plan, final report
WP3 - Investigation: Research synthesis report compiling all research investigations
WP4 - Summer School and Challenge: Pilot version of the RDDCA summer school, SME goes Digital Challenge, facilitator kit
WP5 - Bootcamps: Pilot version of the SME and ACADEMICS Bootcamp Kit
WP6 - Piloting: Implementation report of the RDDCA summer school, SME goes digital challenge, bootcamps, factory tours, and pitch event
WP7 - Optimization: Optimized bootcamps’, RDDCA Summer School’s, SME goes Digital Challenge’, and support kit, + introductory MOOC Kit, impact report, and dissemination workshop material package
WP8 - Dissemination: Website and digital hub, dissemination plan, and engagement report
WP9 - Sustainability: Sustainability and exploitation report
