In the recent past, a vibrant debate emerged about talent management and the set of skills and competencies the future employees must possess to meet current and future market needs. Moreover, the lack of engineering students’ professional competencies and their inability to correlate and apply the theoretical knowledge they acquire during their studies in practical contexts, when they enter the labour market, lead to an investment in action-oriented learning and experiential learning. In this context, the learning factory concept is being put into practice by universities and companies to equip students and employees with the demanded needs. In this paper, an Industry-University collaboration between Renault company and the University of Valladolid is presented, centred in the development of a learning factory devoted to the learning and practicing of lean manufacturing through a set of training courses offered to engineering students and professionals. The lean factory characteristics as well as the learning process and learning results achieved are presented.

Many works highlight the importance and added value of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in companies, as well as the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for their revitalization, but even more important is to ensure that all efforts and resources are aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives (Balanced Scorecard, BSC). The aim of this work is to integrate BSC, CSR and KM based on the results of two previous researches: one on BSC–CSR and the other on KM, both of a projective nature (description-action-contrast). The research carried out has made it possible to identify 45 KM indicators, 102 CSR indicators and their corresponding correlations with the strategic objectives and perspectives of the BSC. In addition, an Excel tool was designed and developed for SMEs that is customizable, intuitive and useful for decision-making, which allowed us to contrast the obtained results.

El acceso al mercado laboral de los estudiantes del área de Ingeniería en Organización, les exige disponer tanto de una buena formación técnica, como de un conjunto de habilidades complementarias de carácter transversal (soft skills). Para ello, es necesario utilizar nuevas metodologías de enseñanza/aprendizaje, y según los expertos, una de las más recomendadas en nuestra área es el “Role-Playing”. En base a ella se ha implementado el “Role Playing CUBIOSKA” con su correspondiente herramienta Web. El objetivo es hacer que el estudiante sea un agente activo de su formación y obtenga un aprendizaje experiencial, acercándose al modelo constructivista, que le facilite la adquisición de las competencias necesarias. El sistema de evaluación establecido acredita unos excelentes resultados de aprendizaje en habilidades interpersonales, autonomía y responsabilidad y toma de decisiones.