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Bilal Ahmad, Freeha Azmat, Armando Walter Colombo, Gerrit Jan Veltink

• Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPS) forge the core of real-world digitalized and networked industrial infrastructures. Building a curriculum for ICPS-oriented professionals generates teaching and learning challenges in a multidisciplinary and cultural engineering setting. In this chapter, the authors describe a bachelor-level curriculum offered at the University of Warwick (UK) and a masters-level curriculum implemented at the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer (Germany). Aiming to bridge the gap between the realization of Industry 4.0 and educational organizations, the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick developed a degree apprenticeship in Digital Technology Solutions, providing specialization in three pathways (software engineering, data analysis and network engineering) in a four-year program. The key enabling technologies and key enabling features of the Master Industrial Informatics with Specialization in industrial cyber-physical systems are first a study body composed of two major graduate programs and, second, the use of a Digital Factory for learning digitalization through hands-on practical training.