Key points

 The JM Chair IC4EU addresses the European industry as the multidimensional concept enabling to provide societal prosperity beyond the economic growth and needs. It draws upon the needs emphasised in the Industry 5.0 - Towards a sustainable, human-centric and resilient European industry and it responds to the burning issue that have been emphasised by the European Directorate-General for Research and Innovation: therefore how to enable the acceleration of the twin green and digital transitions, which would lead to a more sustainable and resilient society and economy - and industry is seen among the key drivers of this dual transition.

 The IC4EU will be based on a) Open Innovation 2.0, an emerging paradigm where academia, state and local level policymakers and civil society co-create the future and drive structural changes, in this case also through co-creation of teaching materials, b) Open Source model, drawing from and contributing to knowledge freely available to the public, and c) a collaborative, community-in-action research techniques that places community partnerships at the forefront, and engage them in all activities. IC4EU will engage a variety of target groups in its activities, i.e. academia, students, professionals, state and local level policymakers, local media, businesses and civil society in the process of cooperating, co-learning, empowering and acting.

 IC4EU has the objective to become the epicentre of knowledge and competence on development and implementation of the EU long term digital policy visions for sustainable and competitive industry. It will be interdisciplinary, pooling and crossing expertise of more traditional EU studies (i.e. sociology, economics, political science) as well as less common EU studies (informatics).

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JM IC4EU obravnava evropsko industrijo kot večdimenzionalni koncept, ki omogoča zagotavljanje družbene blaginje, ki presega zgolj gospodarsko rast in potrebe. Izhaja iz potreb, poudarjenih v viziji Industrije 5.0 – k trajnostni, na človeka osredotočeni in odporni evropski industriji. Odziva se na pereče vprašanje, poudarjeno s strani Evropski generalni direktorat za raziskave in inovacije: Kako omogočiti pospešitev dvojnega zelenega in digitalnega prehoda, ki bi privedel do bolj trajnostne in odporne družbe in gospodarstva – industrija pa velja za enega ključnih dejavnikov tega dvojnega prehoda.

IC4EU bo temeljil na a) Odprti inovaciji 2.0, nastajajoči paradigmi, kjer akademski svet, oblikovalci politik na državni in lokalni ravni ter civilna družba soustvarjajo prihodnost in spodbujajo strukturne spremembe, v tem primeru tudi s soustvarjanjem učnih gradiv, b ) Prostodostopnem modelu, ki črpa iz in prispeva k znanju, ki je prosto dostopno javnosti, in c) skupnostnih raziskovalnih tehnikah – akcijskem raziskovanju -, ki postavlja partnerstva skupnosti v ospredje in jih vključuje v vse dejavnosti. IC4EU bo v svoje dejavnosti vključeval različne ciljne skupine, tj. akademske kroge, študente, strokovnjake, oblikovalce politik na državni in lokalni ravni, lokalne medije, podjetja in civilno družbo v procesu sodelovanja, skupnega učenja, opolnomočenja in delovanja.

Cilj IC4EU je postati epicenter znanja in kompetenc za razvoj in izvajanje dolgoročnih vizij digitalne politike EU za trajnostno in konkurenčno industrijo. Zaobjema interdisciplinarno, povezovalno in medsektorsko strokovno znanje tako ustaljenih študij EU (tj. sociologije, ekonomije, politologije) kot tudi manj ustaljenih študij EU (informatika).