The National School of Engineering of Monastir (ENIM), in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), has launched a Professional Master’s degree in Industry 4.0 for the academic year 2023-2024.
Why this course offering?
This master comes in response to the demandes of industrials. Indeed, transforming into an Industry 4.0 requires not only the acquisition of technologies to be installed in the factory, but also acquiring the skills needed to meet the challenges posed by this new industrial era.
The market, currently into a transition and transformation phase into a smarterd, more connected and more adaptive industry, will need not only technical skills capable of developing and using these new technologies, but also able to accompany human resources organization change in companies.
What career prospects for the textile industry?
This master, which will have its first graduates in 202, will help them acquire key skills needed to be able to meet new market demands, including managing production technologies transformation process, fromm setting up to optimizing new processes, mastering new integration and automation technologies and exploiting digital technologies for business management.
At the end of this training, graduates will enter the job market as Industry 4.0 project managers, innovative plant managers, innovation managers, Industry 4.0 engineers or experts in digitalization and Industry 4.0.
Avenues of collaboration with the Textile and Clothing Ecosystem
ENIM, supported by the project “Employment 4 Youth” led by UNIDO, is studying the the “neotex 4.0 center” project led by Monastir-El Fejja Competitiveness Pole (MFCPOLE) the avenues of collaboration to support students during their training, but also to adjust the training offer to the real need of the Textile market and companies.
Neotex 4.0 center, as federator of the Textile Industry 4.0 ecosystem, will act as relay between industrials and the educational institution, transmitting their needs and thus allowing a continuous adjustment of the training objectives.
Simultaneously, the Competency Center in Textile Industry 4.0 will complement the course with additional training offered to students as well as the opportunity it will grant them to make use of material resources available in its “neotex 4.0 Expo” showroom.
This action is part of the National Initiative «Towards an Industry 4.0 in Tunisia» launched by the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy with the support of the European Union and the Special Initiative «Decent Work for a Just Transition» – Invest for Jobs, mandated by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by GIZ Tunisia.