Coordinator: Professor Mario de Araujo, PhD, dr h c (see Resumé and main publications);
(Professor (retired) and formerly Dean of Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal and President of AUTEX: The Association of Universities for Textiles, International, HQ in Belgium)

Vision:

To stimulate paradigm shifts for sustainable development

Mission:

We anticipate change and provide a digitalised information, education and training service online, in strategic areas of knowledge in order to improve the competitiveness of people at the professional level

Objective:

Excellence in strategic knowledge transfer required to address paradigm shifts through professional competence

Strategy:

Classes-online at near zero cost, available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week

Tactics:

Constant updating course contents to always be “ahead of the curve”

General statement:

We are academics working at universities with decades of international experience in teaching, research and technology transfer. At the development level, we understand well the paradigm shifts caused by advances in science and technology that drive the 4th industrial revolution and its impact on employment, income and lifestyles. The adjustment to new paradigms, which are continuing at a very rapid pace, should be achieved with the acquisition of relevant knowledge and skills, and this is where our contribution takes place. We belong to the social entrepreneurship class. We are independent and function with the view that the user pays, with social prices, achieved through low marginal costs.