BRIDGES 5.0 bridges risks to an inclusive digital and green future by enhancing workforce skills for Industry 5.0. To achieve this ambition, four objectives are central: (1) Quantitatively map how jobs are transforming and what new green and digital jobs are emerging in Industry 4.0; and qualitatively understand Industry 5.0 requirements (human- and socio-centric, sustainable and resilience) for these jobs and company practices; (2) Map Industry 5.0 skills and skill gaps at the EU-level and five EU-institutional contexts for emerging green and digital jobs; and enable monitoring of skill gaps using skills taxonomies/standards; (3) Set up learning trajectories and training pathways, using the enriched Teaching and Learning Factories concepts, and experiment with these interventions to reduce skill gaps for four target groups, i.e. managers, employees, jobseekers and students; (4) Engage a range of industry and related stakeholders at regional, national and EU levels and co-produce a web platform called Industry 5.0 Platform. The platform facilitates social innovation in the learning field and provides these stakeholders and target groups with recommendations and instruments for new learning and training systems. The outcomes contribute to the right supply of skilled workers who will enable companies to optimise the gains from digital technology and the right skills to deal with the digital and green transition to achieve a sustainable, resilient and fairer future for Europe. Stakeholders commitment is crucial to the success of Industry 5.0 and BRIDGES 5.0 creates a unique consortium collaboration between researchers, 8 EU-industrial companies, 9 Industry 4.0 ecosystems and the main EU social partners. An interactive process is created between stakeholders to align with their differing interests and the research results, produced in 7 steps, will be a vital resource for the stakeholders. A business plan supports the sustainability of the Industry 5.0 Platform.

The ConnectedFactories II CSA focuses on the following targets and activities: 1) Supporting a common and structured understanding of key enablers and cross-cutting factors with regard to the deployment of digital technologies, including digital platforms, for manufacturing, serving both as generic guidance, as well as for providing a mapping/analysis framework for use-cases, 2) Identifying pathways to the industrial take-up of digital technologies and digital platforms by taking into account legacy systems, industrial requirements and challenges, 3) Situating inspiring research and industrial state-of-the-art cases on these pathways and show how key enablers and cross-cutting factors are addressed along these pathways, 4) Stimulating the matching of skills transfer offering with skills demand across Europe, 5) Engaging with the research and industrial actors in both European and local fora: manufacturing companies, suppliers, etc., and herewith make sure that requirements and boundary conditions are reflected in the pathways to digitalisation of manufacturing, the use cases, the key enablers and cross-cutting factors, 6) Generating a broad awareness about the key enablers and cross-cutting factors, pathways and inspiring cases. - The objectives of the ConnectedFactories II CSA and the associated activities will build on the results and the methodology of the ongoing ConnectedFactories CSA (concluding in August 2019).

<< Objectives >>The main objective of the project is to MEET THE COMMON NEEDS AND PRIORITIES OF PARTNERS IN THE FIELD OF SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL COMPETENCES OF CLUSTER COORDINATORS, i.e. a group of people who organize and animate the development of interactions, connections, knowledge exchange and cooperation in a given cluster.<< Implementation >>1. Developing together with the stakeholders, a GUIDE describing digital competences and defining appropriate pathways for cluster coordinators. We are talking here about digital competences that are necessary for coordinators to implement the digital transformation of cluster value chains (on a macro scale). 2. Preparing a ASSESSMENT TOOL of the above-mentioned competences, i.e. a tool that allows you to self-assess your competence.<< Results >>The GUIDE developed under the project will contain a detailed description of digital competences as well as a description of possible development pathways for cluster coordinators. On the other hand, the ASSESSMENT TOOL will allow for self-assessment of the competences held. Both tools will be available in electronic form, in Polish and English.All activities / results developed within the project will have environmental sustainability as well as social and digital accessibility in mind.