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On April 10, 2024 KU Leuven, acting as coordinator, was happy to announce to have been awarded a grant under the Erasmus+ Centres of Vocational Excellence call. The proposed project, Platform for Electrification Skills and Competences(P4ELECS), addresses a critical need in the innovation landscape of the energy sector by focusing on the provision of competences and practical skills for projects crucial to the energy transition.
P4ELECS aims to streamline the transition from research to implementation and promote international exchange of knowledge and experience through an integrated system. With electrification as its cornerstone, the project involves partnerships across higher education and Vocational Education and Training (VET) sectors, industry, innovation support organisations, and public authorities responsible for education, accreditation, and employment at regional and national level in five countries (BE, NL, IT, LV, DE).
Coordinated by KU Leuven, this initiative targets both VET excellence and innovation support, and will benefit various stakeholders including VETs, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), enterprises, industry-related training providers, engineers, and technicians. P4ELECS will provide a comprehensive training curriculum that meets the highest European quality standards and will facilitate practical international experience based on skills needs intelligence.
Over a period of 48 months, this collaborative effort, involving KU Leuven as coordinator, 23 full partners, and 7 associated partners, will receive a total EU grant of 3.99 million euros. KU Leuven's role in this project includes a grant of 1 million euros. Professor Annick Dexters of the Faculty of Engineering Technology is the contact person at KU Leuven for this groundbreaking project.
This project represents an important milestone in strengthening competences, bridging the gap between research and practical implementation, and fostering robust international collaborations in the field of electrification and the broader energy transition landscape.
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P4ELECS has published the new WP8 Co-creating Skills Ecosystems report, Ecosystem Mapping – Interview Process Results: The Netherlands, which explores how the Dutch electrification ecosystem is evolving and where the main skills and implementation gaps remain.
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Discover how P4ELECS is making essential electrification knowledge accessible to everyone.
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As electrification accelerates across Europe, developing the right skills is more critical than ever.
On March 3rd at EnergyVille, Annick Dexters of KU Leuven will share her perspective in her talk “Educating Engineers and Technicians of the Future”, highlighting how education and industry collaboration can strengthen Europe’s power electronics ecosystem and support the energy transition.
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From 1 to 5 December 2025, students from KU Leuven, RWTH Aachen, Riga Technical University, TH Köln and other partner institutions gathered at EnergyVille (Thor Park, Genk, Belgium) for the physical module of the P4ELECS course “Design and Reverse Engineering of Power Electronic Converters.” The intensive week marked an important milestone in delivering advanced, practice-oriented energy-transition skills to future engineers.
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Policy makers, educators and industry experts from across Europe are set to gather in Arnhem this autumn for the P4ELECS Workshop Days, a high-impact event focused on the future of upskilling in the fast-evolving electrification sector. The event, scheduled for 30 September – 1 October 2025, will be hosted at HAN InnovatieLab@Connectr and HAN University of Applied Sciences.
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