Much has been talked about Industry 4.0. All over the world companies have started to work on modular, networked machines, which can connect and communicate with each other, exchanging information and forming complex systems, which are more than the sum of their parts.
Four leading higher education institutions in the Russian Federation, including Perm National Research Polytechnic University, have realized the potential of this idea for study programs and formed a project consortium together with industry and universities from the European Union, to realize an ambitious project: Transferring the main ideas of industry 4.0 to education.