Development of industry oriented cross-domain study programs in cyber-physical systems for Belarusian and Ukrainian universities

Abstract One of the targets of European COST Action Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems (MPM4CPS) was crystallising contents of the Action into a suitable format for educational purposes. This encouraged to create the base for a European Master and PhD program in MPM4CPS involving European Leading Universities and setting up the respective discipline road-map facing the challenge to develop a mutually recognised cross-domain expertise-based study program in CPS. One of the challenges in the development of study programs is bridging the gap between industry needs and educational output, in terms of training the prospective researchers and engineers in the CPS field. The success of MPM4CPS encouraged EU partners to apply knowledge and methods, developed by the COST Action at an ERASMUS+ project, to validate in practice its viability aiming to develop the industry-focused curricula at partners' universities of Belarus and Ukraine. In this research we discuss how the COST team efforts towards analysis of tendencies, industry needs and acquiring best education practice have been made by the ERASMUS+ team in order to create industry-focused cross-domain study programs in CPS for the partners' universities of Belarus and Ukraine.