DomoSens: an innovative work-based learning model for high schools

The worldwide growth in research across all scientific fields and the following emphasis on technology transfer have provided knowledge, products, and solutions impacting society and indeed our every-day lives. In this context, an ever-increasing gap is emerging between the level of training achieved at the end of the high school program with respect to what it is required by today’s innovative companies and institutions. Concurrently, there has been an increasingly evident feature of the working model that has changed. Once a single individual was able to cover a wide range of activities featuring the innovation chain program. Today, a team of experts is needed to achieve the final target. This means that focused knowledge must therefore be integrated and shared, thanks to the development of transversal competencies supported by human skills. Furthermore, there is also the need to consider the team in a broad sense, allowing a way of working where all participants are aware of the importance of all roles and aspects of the program.