Dear viewers, we will stay on the topic of KIT, the lack of skilled
workers in the region, unfortunately a permanent topic.
There is a lack of engineers, more and more skilled workers come from
abroad.
Founded knowledge about new energy technologies, connected with
current management knowledge, is conveyed by the new professional
-accompanying course at the Hector School of KIT, Energy Engineering
and Management.
It starts in September this year.
My guest is Dr. Judith Elsner.
First of all, good evening.
Nice to have you here.
Managing Director of the Hector School and Professor Dr. Hans-Jürg
Bauer.
I also warmly welcome you.
You are the program director of the new master's course.
Ms. Elsner, who is this new course aimed at?
The target group of this new course are experienced engineers, young
engineers, who can be active in companies in the region, but also
abroad and internationally, and who would like to receive a current
update of their knowledge base.
How did it come to the decision to say, we would also like to give
engineers, who have been collecting for many years in their
profession, the opportunity to simply get up, right?
Well, sure.
There are different aspects in this regard.
One is that we have to adjust to simply having to put something into
our further qualification for life.
Current topics in energy technology are present, and everyone who has
completed their degree five years ago, even in an institution like
KIT, has no longer received the input on the current topics.
And that was the main trigger, which we practically chose many years
ago in the Hector School, to enable engineers to receive an update of
their knowledge in a professional way.
Mr. Bauer, what new topics will be addressed in the course of study?
Well, so far we have not addressed the topic of energy at all in the
Hector School, and I think that this is exactly the right time right
now.
At the same time, the Knowledge and Innovation Community InnoEnergy
has also been founded, and we will now be able to finance this course
of study, at least the introduction of the course of study,
accordingly.
This is connected with the topic of innovation, which Kigino Energy
has set itself the goal of, to strengthen the innovative power of
Europe, and thus of course also this region, in the field of
sustainable energy research.
And for this it also needs well-trained engineers who, on the one
hand, bring expertise with them, and on the other hand also receive
corresponding management skills, in order to finally be able to
develop entrepreneurial thinking and action, which is extremely
important for innovation.
Ms. Elstner, perhaps to conclude, just a few more facts.
How long?
How is it taught?
The whole thing takes place in a professional way, as you said.
This means that the programme extends over one and a half years in so
-called modules, and usually this is supported by the employer, so
that an employee enters this programme and again and again, that is,
ten times in one and a half years, comes to the KIT, comes to the
Hector School, and conducts these face-to-face events there.
I thank you, unfortunately, already now.
I hear that we are unfortunately running out of time.
Thank you very much for being here.