Vir­tu­al Clus­ter Aca­de­my

Pro­ject brief

Net­work and clus­ter orga­ni­sa­ti­ons play a key role in the coor­di­na­ti­on of cross-orga­ni­sa­tio­nal rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment pro­jects. This requi­res clus­ter mana­gers to pos­sess a broad spec­trum of know­ledge and skills, but the­re is a lack of sus­tainable struc­tures for the sys­te­ma­tic and effi­ci­ent trans­fer of the­se skills. Spe­cial chal­lenges ari­se from inter­na­tio­na­li­sa­ti­on acti­vi­ties to ensu­re glo­bal com­pe­ti­ti­ve­ness. The aim of the pro­ject is to explo­re the ext­ent to which the deve­lo­p­ment of a sys­te­ma­tic trai­ning and fur­ther edu­ca­ti­on offer in the form of a Vir­tu­al Clus­ter Aca­de­my based on a Sha­ring Eco­no­my approach can clo­se this gap.

The core idea of the approach con­sists of the fact that clus­ter mana­gers can help to shape the aca­de­my them­sel­ves and deve­lop, book and offer topic-spe­ci­fic semi­nar offers in various for­mats. In this way, the exis­ting prac­ti­cal clus­ter manage­ment know-how from more than ten years of suc­cessful clus­ter poli­cy is to be made cen­tral­ly acces­si­ble and con­vey­ed in a demand-ori­en­ted way, and is to be expan­ded spe­ci­fi­cal­ly to include rele­vant com­pe­ten­ci­es for inter­na­tio­nal coope­ra­ti­on acti­vi­ties. With more than 1,500 regio­nal clus­ter initia­ti­ves or com­pa­ra­ble net­work agglo­me­ra­ti­ons in Ger­ma­ny, the­re is a gre­at poten­ti­al of future pro­vi­ders and users, who­se increase in know-how will then bene­fit the asso­cia­ted clus­ters as a who­le.

Inno­va­ti­on approa­ches: What is new at the Vir­tu­al Clus­ter Aca­de­my?

• Sys­te­ma­tic trai­ning and fur­ther edu­ca­ti­on offer for estab­lished and pro­s­pec­ti­ve clus­ter mana­gers with the pos­si­bi­li­ty of qua­li­ty assu­rance on the basis of a sys­te­ma­ti­cal­ly coll­ec­ted com­pe­tence and requi­re­ment pro­fi­le, espe­ci­al­ly taking into account the neces­sa­ry know-how and com­pe­ten­ces with regard to inter­na­tio­nal coope­ra­ti­on pro­jects.
• Self-assess­ment for clus­ter mana­gers and pro­s­pec­ti­ve juni­or mana­gers to deter­mi­ne their own trai­ning and deve­lo­p­ment needs on the basis of an ide­al pro­fi­le, taking into account pos­si­ble care­er paths. Sha­ring eco­no­my in the edu­ca­ti­on sec­tor: lear­ners are also tea­chers. They them­sel­ves shape the
• lear­ning oppor­tu­ni­ties and orga­ni­se, ope­ra­te and con­trol the aca­de­my. Digi­ti­sa­ti­on: All pro­ces­ses of the Aca­de­my are to be digi­tal­ly repre­sen­ted. Excep­ti­ons are the lear­ning for­mats, which are digi­tal as well as real or hybrid.
• Dyna­mic lear­ning oppor­tu­ni­ties are based on indi­vi­du­al lear­ning needs.

Within the pro­ject, ITA is main­ly respon­si­ble for the con­cep­ti­on, imple­men­ta­ti­on and eva­lua­ti­on of a demand ana­ly­sis among clus­ter mana­gers regar­ding their cur­rent and future com­pe­tence needs. In addi­ti­on, ITA is respon­si­ble for the con­cep­ti­on of a self-assess­ment tool for clus­ter mana­gers to deter­mi­ne their fur­ther trai­ning needs and com­pi­les com­pe­tence pro­files of clus­ter mana­gers for the later con­cep­ti­on of a struc­tu­red trai­ning and fur­ther trai­ning offer in inno­va­ti­ve for­mats.

The pro­ject part­ner inno-focus takes over the con­sor­ti­um lea­der­ship in and is respon­si­ble for the deve­lo­p­ment of pro­to­ty­pi­cal trai­ning and fur­ther edu­ca­ti­on offers and the rea­li­sa­ti­on of the Vir­tu­al Clus­ter Aca­de­my demons­tra­tor on an online plat­form. The part­ner Wei­chert­Meh­ner­Un­ter­neh­mens­be­ra­tung is respon­si­ble for the deve­lo­p­ment of a busi­ness model for the Vir­tu­al Clus­ter Aca­de­my as a net­work struc­tu­re with digi­ta­li­sed pro­cess flows.

Sum­ma­ry: Kom­pe­tenz­pro­fi­le erfolg­rei­cher Clus­ter­ma­na­ger (07/2017)

Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on available at:

vca​.innoe​cos​.com