Conference: Future Skills for Europe’s Aerospace and Defence Industry / Lean Academy

Conference: Future Skills for Europe’s Aerospace and Defence Industry

red. Dorota Stadnicka

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE

“Future Skills for Europe’s Aerospace and Defence Industry”

21-22.10.2021

Rzeszow, Poland

organized by

European Commission

Rzeszów University of Technology

Aviation Valley Association

in the framework of the

European Network of Defence-related Regions

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

“Future Skills for Europe’s Aerospace and Defence Industry”

Day 1 - Thursday

21.10.2021

8.30 – Registration and welcome coffee

9.00 – Welcome by Jarosław Sęp - Vice-Rector for Development and Business Cooperation - Rzeszów University of Technology

9.30 – EU policy on skills in aerospace and defence industry, Elektra Tsigaridas, European Commission

10.00 – Challenges for aerospace and defence industries in the post-Covid era, Marek Darecki, Aviation Valley Association

10.30 – Technical and soft skills in aerospace and defence industry, including new skills driven by emerging technologies, Renata Markowska, Marcin Pietrzak, MTU Aero Engines Polska

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 – ASSETS+ project: Alliance for Strategic Skills addressing Emerging Technologies in Defence, Gualtiero Fantoni, Filippo Chiarello, University of Pisa

11.50 – The European Defence Student Challenge, Liga Baltina, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, Mateo Burgos-Garcia, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

12.00 – Walking tour in Rzeszów University of Technology Laboratories – skills-building venues for the aerospace and defence industry

13.15 – Networking Lunch

14.15 – 15.30

SESSION 1: Challenges for skills providers

Panel discussion

moderated by Andrzej Majka

Eric Grivel, IMS lab, Bordeaux INP - University of Bordeaux
Susana Nogueira, European Welding Federation
Lucyna Pasternak, WSK "PZL-Świdnik S.A." - Leonardo Helicopters
Wojciech Depczyński, Kielce University of Technology
Geert De Cubber, Royal Military Academy of Belgium

15.30 – 16.30 Examples of activities building future skills at European level relevant for the Aerospace & Defence industry

15.30 – 15.45 Aerospace & Defence Pact for Skills - How regions and Member States can contribute to the Pact? Antoine Feral, Rolls-Royce

15.45 – 15.55 Upskilling and Reskilling policies in companies’ business and technological strategy, Carlos Maio, QSR - Talent Driven Culture

15.55 – 16.05 SAM: Sector Skills Strategy for Additive Manufacturing, Susana Nogueira, EWF European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting

16.05 – 16.15 PLANET4: Practical Learning of Artificial intelligence on the Edge for industry 4.0, Grzegorz Dec, Rzeszów University of Technology

16.15 – 16.25 EDURES: Technology education in the digital era supported by the significant use of research results, Roman Wdowik, Rzeszów University of Technology

16.25 – 16.30 Questions & Answers

18.30 – Dinner

Day 2 - Friday

22.10.2021

8.30 – Welcome coffee

9.00 – Programme Erasmus+ and its offer for enhancing students and staff competencies and for teaching innovations, Beata Skibińska, National Agency for the Erasmus+and ESC programmes

9.20 – Other programmes supporting trainings and skills improvement, Maciej Szalacha, Rzeszów University of Technology

9.45 - 11.00

SESSION 2: Technical skills development and improvement

Panel discussion

moderated by Tomasz Rogalski

Mateusz Roszkiewicz, PGZ - Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. (a capital group of Polish defence industry)
Peter Nielsen, Aalborg University
Przemysław Kupidura, Military University of Technology, Warsaw
Sophie Pawletko, Benoit Consolini, Aerocampus Aquitaine
Jan Sawicki, Safran Transmission Systems Poland

11.00 – Coffee break

11.30 - 12.45

SESSION 3: Soft and digital skills required by aerospace and defence industry

Panel discussion

moderated by Dorota Stadnicka

Mirosław Basiak, Aero Gearbox International Poland
Mirosław Surowaniec, Huta Stalowa Wola
Tomasz Gałaczyński, Polskie Zakłady Lotnicze Sp. z o.o.
Jose Maria de Fuentes, Charles III University of Madrid
Jacek Czarnigowski, Lublin University of Technology

12.45 – Sky 4.0: Soft Skills 4.0 for the new challenges in European Aerospace Industry, Andrzej Rybka, The Aviation Valley Association

12.55 – Wrap up

13.00 – Networking Lunch and b2b meetings

14.30 – Industrial Visit (The number of places is limited, the order of applications decides)

Conference place

Rzeszów University of Technology

Rzeszow University of Technology is the largest polytechnic in the region and continues to grow. Over its history it has educated 57 952 graduates, including 593 pilots. A great number of alumni hold important positions both in the region and country. As a matter of course, the University’s development has been accompanied by a continual increase in the number of academic staff and independent scientists.

In the current term the University has an enrolment of 17 000 students at 7 faculties and 35 courses of study. The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, as the only one in Poland, has been training civil aviation pilots since 1976. Pilots receive an MSc in Aeronautical Engineering and a 2nd Class (CPL) pilot’s licence. Their training meets European requirements for receiving an airline pilot licence (ATPL), and is conducted at Jasionka (aviation) and Bezmiechowa (gliders).

Through its multilateral co-operation with entrepreneurial and industrial entities, the University carefully constructs and tailors its academic programs to offer students and graduates the most rewarding hands-on experience, benefitting the development of their professional careers on both a local and national level. The University’s approach to learning provides students with an education grounded in the common values of respect for their community, their state and the principles of human rights. It teaches them the value of patriotism coupled with tolerance and the exercise of due diligence in carrying out their student responsibilities. In its activities, the University cultivates and realizes the humanistic and intellectual ideals advocated and followed by its patron – Ignacy Łukasiewicz.

Rzeszów

Rzeszow as the biggest city in the region, the centre of the Rzeszow Metropolitan area and the capital of the Podkarpackie Voivodship, is the economic, scientific and cultural centre of south-east Poland. It’s located the frontier of Poland with the Ukraine and Slovakia and can be considered as the eastern outpost of the European Union.

Statistical data confirms that the city is an important regional centre of economic growth. The leading sectors in the city’s economy are: aviation, computer science, pharmaceuticals, chemical processing, outsourcing and tourism. The four special economic zones offer favourable conditions to innovative companies organised in clusters, such as the Aviation Valley cluster, the Information Technology Cluster, the Cluster of Renewable Energy (among others: photovoltaic) and the Cluster of Good Quality of Life. City of Rzeszow is an example of how a modern and dynamically growing agglomeration of over 180 thousand inhabitants is positioned within its historical heritage.

Rzeszow is also a learning city. In a study ranking Polish cities, Rzeszow came out as 1st best in EU, when comparing the number of students to general number of inhabitants. The Municipality and the educational institutions work closely together in order to best serve the needs of the labour market and of the new investors.

The city’s goal is to expand the brand “Rzeszow capital of innovation”.

CONFERENCE VENUE

Rzeszów University of Technology

Al. Powstancow Warszawy 12, Rzeszów, Poland

Room V-1

Travel to Rzeszów

Airport: Rzeszów-Jasionka

FLIGHTS TIMETABLE

The beginnings of "Rzeszów-Jasionka" Airport date back to 1940, when a runway 1200 meters long and 40 meters wide was built in Jasionka for military purposes. On 1 April 1974, the Airport became an international airport, and an alternate airport for the Warsaw-Okęcie Airport. In 1987, the State Enterprise "Polish Airports" was founded, grouping all the airports in the country. The „Rzeszow-Jasionka” was within its structures to the end of June 2009.

Considering the constant development of the "Rzeszów-Jasionka" Airport you cannot ignore major investments such as new administrative buildings and technical facilities, a filling station, and above all, the modernization and extension of the runway (3200 meters long and 45 meters of operational width), the second apron and taxiway.

The most awaited investment was the construction of a new passenger terminal building. After 15 months of construction, on 8 May 2012, the passenger service was moved to the new passenger terminal, which significantly changed the image of the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport. One building combined departures and arrivals, which were supported by technical and commercial infrastructure. The New Terminal Building has three floors above ground and one underground.

The capacity of the new terminal is 720 passengers per hour. Ultimately, it may reach the level of 1400 passengers per hour. This allows achieving the maximum annual throughput of 1.8 million passengers.

The "Rzeszów-Jasionka" Airport, as the furthest to the southeast communication airport in Poland, has an opportunity to develop further in the near future to open a wider window on the world for our region.