Solution Designer EQF 6

This Learning Programme is being designed by University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (HU). The curriculum proposed has been integrated in the current HBO Open-ICT at the Institute for ICT at Hogeschool Utrecht. This is a vocational course that trains university students to become an ICT specialist. Student learn smart and devise creative ICT solutions for business issues. The students don't get lessons nor exams but work fully on challenging projects for real clients from the start of the studies – it is therefore a practice based learning approach. The students are coached in their learning, both on skills and competencies. The learning outcomes of the Open-ICT training program are based on the HBO-I professional tasks (elaborated by the HBO-I Foundation). This foundation is a partnership between the universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands that provide ICT education and the business community. The curriculum leverages a blended learning model, combining the presence classroom and virtual classroom. HBO Open-ICT lasts 8 semesters. This learning material has been developed under the ERASMUS+ project ESSA (European Software Skills Alliance) which aims to skill, upskill, and reskill individuals into high-demand software roles across EU.