As Austria’s first cooperative education programme, the Production Technology and Organisation course is a flagship project at FH JOANNEUM. The expertise gained from developing and extending the degree programme, including its conversion to the Bachelor/Master system, and the associated knowledge of the opportunities and risks offered by cooperative education were successfully integrated into international research and development projects. FH JOANNEUM is unique within Austria’s tertiary education sector in that it is part of a global network dedicated to developing “cooperative education” as an alternative to traditional educational formats.
Experts at the Institute of Applied Production Sciences work together with numerous European and non-European universities on international development projects to create new higher education models in the engineering sciences. “Work based learning and transformative teaching in universities” is just one of many projects which is developing approaches to solving the ever more complex demands of the industrial sector.