© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring EUA - European University Association University and Society: Engaging Stakeholders Marseille, 1-3 April 2004 Maria Rimini-Döring Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring The Robert Bosch Group Considerations on Competence Profiles Industry as Stakeholder University-Industry Cooperation AgendaOverview

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring * Sales Automotive Technology Industrial Technology Consumer Goods and Building Technology Foreign share of sales in percent7271 Number of employees / ,000232,000 in Germany102,000109,000 outside Germany122,000123,000 Investments in tangible fixed assets Expenditures for R & D Figures in billion EUR *Provisional Figures Status: January 2004 The Bosch Group - Facts and Figures Business Year 2003

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring by Regions % 27.4 % 21.2 % 37.4 % Total 35.0 bn EUR (without Germany) The Bosch Group - Facts and Figures Distribution of Sales 2002

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring The Bosch Group - Facts and Figures Distribution of Sales Total 35.0 bn EUR 22.0 % 66.6 % 11.4 % by Business sector

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring The Bosch Group - Facts and Figures The Bosch Constitution Robert Bosch GmbH Capital stock 1.2 bn EUR Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH 92 % holding No voting powers Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG 93 % of votes Bosch Family 8 % holding 7 % of votes

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring Over people in R&D, 70% engineers and scientists Recruitment of ca academics per year Cooperation with about 200 Universities and Research Institutes Over 2500 Internships (8 weeks to 6 months) per year Over 130 Diploma students (4 to 6 months) in the Corporate Research Over 160 PhD students (3 years) 140 Trainee-Programmes (2 years): multinational curriculum required The Bosch Group - Facts and Figures Employing Academics (in Germany)

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring High level of analysis and synthesis skills Feeling for complex and changing systems, (feedback, instability,...) Critical capabilities: learning how to ask (the right, not the easy) questions Open-minded and ready to take responsibility Knowing how to learn - prerequisite for lifelong learning - and curiosity High language skills (not only English) and multicultural experience Flexibility and creativity mean long-time employability Possibility of employment in or in contact with foreign cultures and markets What about specialisation: How much deepness + how many specialists? Today: many skills can only be covered by a team Competence Profile Individual Competence Intellectual curiosity and flexibility

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring Diversity and resource management Integration of different methodological approaches to the same subject bottom-up vs. top-down theory-based vs. experimental focus goal-oriented vs. process-oriented Integration of interdisciplinary approaches Understanding of complex system dynamics and sustainability issues Multi/crosscultural environment: higher social and communication skills Training of team work and project structures (incl. time & budget issues) Comments on the European experience: European diversity supports and increments these competence profiles European strength available in all of these sectors European traditional links to most countries in the world can make this competence profile attractive to a very wide public Competence Profile Team Competence

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring Industry as Stakeholder General Considerations (1) Needs - Need-nots Sound fundamental knowledge, methods and curiosity AND Some applications - exercise room to learn/train the method Short-time scale: different skills and people Talent scout is a very early task, a wide(r)-angle search Long-time scale: need for people that can be employed with flexibility Flexibility as the possibility of personal growth also in the future Creativity to master the challenges of today and tomorrow New and independent approaches from different disciplines University studies must not only be a function of (goods) production Common advantage of addressing issues of social, ecological and political balance as well as economic ones - consensus

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring Industry as Stakeholder General Considerations (2) Plea for the autonomy of university education: do not follow the short-time fashions of the industry We do not always know better... We need real sparring partners The education system has intrinsic long delays: danger of instability

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring Open discussion on education vs. training goals Balance between basic and applied research as well as between different sets of goals (independent mission of the University) Training the specialist: by whom and where? Exchange between the two worlds - a life long (in the USA maybe easier) Developing flexible structures for internships Specific training of language skills (analysis, documentation, transfer) Developing foreign language skills within and outside the University Training of intercultural skills (still not formal part of curriculum, right?) Mutual recognition of credits, stages, degrees (transparency for the user) Financial aid for the student (trip, lodging,...) and the University Coordination of initiatives University-Industry Cooperation (1) Open Issues

© Alle Rechte bei Robert Bosch GmbH, auch für den Fall von Schutzrechtsanmeldungen. Jede Verfügungsbefugnis, wie Kopier- und Weitergaberecht, bei uns , FV/SLI Rimini-Döring Sponsoring of integrated research projects Sponsoring of highly specialised training within the University Sponsoring of intensive and early teaching of foreign languages Sponsoring of educational effort & investment on intercultural competence Sponsoring of mentoring programmes Sponsoring of internal University activities without a direct project frame (TU Darmstadt - model) But money is not all: we can offer an open discussion platform with all stakeholders on goals, challenges, changes of our times University-Industry Cooperation (2) We can / should offer...