The new framework introduced by the European Space for Higher Education entails the reformulation of teaching strategies, which must not only be based on the teaching process, but also on the learning process. Given the importance of teamwork in nowadays’ engineering labour market, we propose a teaching-learning strategy, which applies a competency-based education approach and aims to reinforce the generic teamwork competence. Its foundations are drawn from the research on agreement technologies and multi-agent systems, which are key research topics in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

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