Models and Methods for an Active Ageing workforce: an International Academy
Programme: Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
Lead: Università degli studi di Padova
Partners:
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Univerza V Ljubljani
Institut Superieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’espace
Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Hochschule Fur Wirtschaft Und Recht Berlin
Groupe Kedge Business School
Keio University
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
University Of South Florida Board Of Trustees
The University of Auckland
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York
Ryerson University
Topic and objectives:
MAIA is an European research project with a focus on a timely and strategic international challenge: the efficient involvement of ageing workers in the manufacturing systems of the future.
It develops a ‘Research and Innovation Staff Exchange’ approved for funding under the Horizon 2020 call: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019. The project is aimed at strengthening research collaboration through active networking, staff exchange and dissemination activities between 7 European universities from Italy, Germany, France and Slovenia as well as 6 non-European universities from USA, Japan, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Canada.
The project will exploit complementary competences and synergies of the participants, and enable knowledge sharing via international/inter-sectoral mobility, based on secondments of research staff. The consortium offers a unique opportunity that creativity and entrepreneurship will flourish and will help exchanged personnel to turn creative ideas into age-friendly manufacturing system design and management, reaching breakthroughs in Industrial engineering and robotics, human science, ergonomics and operation management.