Dr. Farassat-Stiftung
Successful project between Dr. Farassat-Stiftung and Ersa GmbH
The Dr. Farassat-Stiftung (Foundation) located near Würzburg dedicates itself to the integration of the highly gifted into professional and business life. After a meeting, the Kurtz Ersa management recognised the potential connected with it and commissioned a project on the subject of “Digitalisation of knowledge”.
“The objective of the foundation’s work is to get highly gifted people, who fail in their studies without any apparent reason or who do not have any success at the start of their professional lives, out of the situation so that they can make use of the skills for themselves and for society’s benefit,” says Reinhard Foegelle, Managing Director of the Dr. Farassat-Stiftung. What does that look like specifically? To start with, the beneficiaries research the limits of their capability together with trainers during a three-month personality training. By means of individual support, a holistic learning approach and psychological help, the participants learn how to develop their extraordinary potential. In addition, learning and working conduct, strategies for crisis situations and motivation are taught, with the result that the participants build up a positive self-concept and increase their social competence. The personality training is followed by a project phase in real surroundings in the second part.
Project phase with the soldering specialist Ersa
And that’s how it is with the joint “Digitalisation of knowledge” project between the foundation and Ersa – in the two-month project phase, the four participants were to put what they have learned into practice in the company. Starting point: despite ultra-modern engineering and a high degree of automation, the specific soldering know-how for optimum production of electronics is often only in the specialists’ heads. For Ersa, the question was: how can this knowledge be secured and extended in order to be able to access and distribute it purposefully?
That was where the team of four from the foundation got involved: customers and employees from various Ersa departments were interviewed – with great empathy, design thinking resulted in various approaches to solutions in order to make the employees’ existing knowledge visible. The result: an app which makes it possible to record, to channel and to provide answers to questions of the soldering process easily and without complications. In this way, this specific knowledge can be accessed in an automated way and the communication with customers and service employees can be simplified. The concept convinced all those who were involved, with the result that a further project started (nozzle changer for selective soldering machines) and has also been completed successfully in the meantime …
