S.M.I.L.E.

S.M.I.L.E. - Skill Match in an Intelligent Learning Environment

The Smile project aims to create a renewed synergy between HEIs and SMEs, centred on shared languages, methods, technologies, and common visions, capable of reducing the mismatch between the demand for skills expressed by production systems and the supply generated by Higher Education systems.

Today, EU Higher Education needs to undertake forward planning on a regular basis as this is crucial to adapt its systems to the emerging trends of the twin transition, which is prompting EU SMEs to evolve their professional systems, creating the need for skills adaptation, along with the demand for new professional profiles.

The Key Objectives:

AI-Based tool

Equip HEIs with a common AI-based tool for student training needs analysis and diagnosis to match their skills with those required by SMEs

SMILE model

Guide and inspire career guidance practitioners towards the adoption of the SMILE Model and associated tools

Lifelong e-learning

Foster lifelong e-learning of HE actors with access to OER

Alignment of a pool of experts

Train a pool of teachers, career guidance and placement experts to reduce the distance between HE and production systems