The SMWeld Project Impacts

The SM WELD project has the purpose to bring the university, enterprises and society close to join the efforts to foster employability - through learning innovation, specialization, training and qualification - and enhancing entrepreneurship - through the creation of welding and joining consultancy, welding trainers and welding audit firms.

With a strong impact in students, teachers and the industry at both local and regional the SM WELD project will:

• Create education programmes in Welding and Joining specializations in PCs according to Bologna process system that will increase student and staff mobility between SM and European universities.
• Implement the System for Education and Qualification of Welding Personnel and create a Welding Center in PCs that will built a fruitful partnership between universities of SM region, companies and other stakeholders (e.g. governmental and local agencies) for knowledge transfer.
• Develop and implement welding Open Educational Resources (OERs) in both SM and European regions that will increase the welding knowledge and practical skills of students in Universities in Algeria and Tunisia, allowing the workforce to be appropriately educated at all levels.
• Increase the number of jobs and employability of students in SM region and outside.
• Allow the recognition in SM region of the EU Certification programmes for International Welding Engineers and Welding audit for Quality assessment of companies according to ISO 3834, which will improve the competitiveness of the SM region companies on the global market.