MOBIL4e - Academic Initiative for e-Mobility
Overview
Background & policy context:
The German federal government pursues the objective to bring one million electric vehicles onto German roads by 2020 and thereby to make transport more sustainable. Fostering the slow market uptake of electromobility in Germany requires a promptly in-service training and further education for academics. Thus, there is no market for electromobility yet, education in Germany as well as on international ground is facing a great challenge. Therefore, a holistic approach involving all core competences is necessary. Until now this approach is missing on the field of in-service training and further education. To create and develop the holistic approach for research efforts as well as interdisciplinary work is required.
Objectives:
According to surveys, 30,000 new jobs will be created in automotive, supply, and infrastructure industries, if Germany became the leading market and leading provider of electric vehicles by 2020. Sweeping changes will be necessary in academic education in order to meet the expected demand for specialists, particularly in research and development.
In front of this background the Mobil4e project aims at developing modular and comprehensive further training programmes on electromobility for universities and colleges and testing them at selected locations. The target groups include graduate professions and engineers.
Methodology:
In the course of the project, comprehensive, modular education and training programmes on electromobility topics are to be developed. Modules covering the subject areas “electromobility”, “battery”, “power electronics and e-motors”, “charging infrastructure”, and “mobility and business models” will be designed and labs will be set up for the corresponding practical tests. The content requirements will be defined jointly with partners from the business sector and from other associated projects. These programmes will be tested and evaluated at selected colleges and universities of the metropolitan region during the course of the project. In addition, results from experiments and technology installations will be integrated into the programmes to keep their contents constantly up to date.
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