Industry-education partnerships

The PROHYTEC platform is built up in partnership with local industries involved in H2 production and academic laboratories. One of its main purposes is to be a place of fruitful exchanges so as to create an efficient framework for continuing and graduate educations in these technologies. 

Congresswoman Johnson Actually the effort is about making sure that there is opportunity for more enhancement of teachers skills and, also, trying to bridge education and industry, setting up partnerships and internships for teachers and students. We are doing a lot of this in Dallas, and that is where I got the idea, but I think it works. We have to remove the mystery surrounding industry for educators,... 

In 1987, the National Science Foundation initiated a program of "Private Sector Partnerships to Improve Science and Mathematics Education to draw on the intellectual resources of the private sector. Since two-thirds of all scientists and engineers in the United States are employed in private industry, where they carry out three-fourths of all U. S. research and development, the private sector constitutes a major intellectual resource on which the educational world should be drawing. With over 18 million now committed to more than 70 projects, the staff of the Education and Human Resources Directorate of the National Science Foundation has had ample opportunity to observe how successful partnerships between educational institutions and private sector firms and organizations can be. Likewise, we have also been able to identify factors which can keep such partnerships from accomplishing as much as anticipated. 

With guidance from industrial scientists from these companies, teachers implement innovative instruction and hands-on activities that will help students understand the impact of chemistry on their daily lives. In turn, the program increases the industrial scientists understanding of educators through their interaction with the teachers in the workshop. The industrial scientists and teachers share their views of one another, cooperate, and mesh their efforts to form viable partnerships to improve science education. In doing so, they form an... 

The engineering community, including industry, universities, professional organizations, and all stakeholders must have committed involvement and partnership in the Kindergarten-12 educational system. 

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