Evaluation of Nordic Summer Colloquium (NSCAS) Etapp 2
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Jernkontoret |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 785 000 |
| Project duration | March 2016 - September 2016 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | The strategic innovation programme for Metallic material |
Important results from the project
To evaluate if a summer school will spread the knowledge and interest of the industry in Bergslagen. NSCAS 2016 is a development of NSCAS 2015 with alumnis, scientific conferences, universities and institutes as partners as well as municipalities. An extended successful programme, in terms of planning and scientific/technical content. New contacts for R&D were created, as well as increased awareness of the region as attractive for jobs and living. The industry finds that NSCAS fulfills a need and the interest in a continuation is high, which is a strong base for a comtinuation.
Expected long term effects
Eight international graduate students, visited five companies and institutes who presented operations and development through lectures, discussions and guidance on the development laboratories and productions. The corresponing communities were appreciated hosts. All the students met the criteria and level of knowledge aimed for. The marketing of an attractive region for engineers was successful! See attached report
Approach and implementation
The evaluation shows that the change of the program wassuccessful with a view the history of the iron industry in the region, and information about working and living conditions. The technical/scientific content was deeper with two days of seminars and match between each student and the companies as well as an introduciton with coaching in presentation technique and in the role as scientist. The evalutation was very postive with a recommendation to repeat and develop the concept. A future potential is a global center for young scientists.