The project will address the need for more flexible pathways to acquire current industry-related skills needed to stimulate and sustain innovation in sectors identified by national smart specialization strategies and regional innovation in the new Member States. To this end, regular practical phases in companies will be integrated into ongoing engineering curricula to accelerate the updating of knowledge provided by higher education institutions. In order to achieve this, the project will apply the dual higher education model adapted to the county.

The goal of the DYNAMIC project is to develop, implement, test and validate 3 undergraduate programs in the fields of Mechatronics and Robotics (Sibiu, Romania), Shipbuilding and Construction (Varna, Bulgaria) and Mechanical Engineering and Production (Pula, Croatia).

In order to ensure the successful implementation of the 3 dual programs, the project will develop tool documentation and an evaluation of practical training for academic supervisors. In order to strengthen the training capacities of companies involved in dual education, the project will develop materials for the on-site training of industrial supervisors. The main intellectual result of the project is "Methodological guidelines for the design and implementation in practice of integrated dual programs of higher education in science and technology studies" in the context of Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia. The result will satisfy the need for a strategic approach in updating engineering curricula that include a dual education model.

The knowledge and experience gained during the project will be synthesized in this methodological document that will describe the different sets of methods used in the different stages of the process. The full commitment of the 16 partners from Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Germany and Austria and the active involvement of key stakeholders will ensure sustainable long-term exploitation of the project's results beyond the project's lifetime