The digital transformation as well as the changes leading towards a "new work" world create huge challenges regarding the education and life-long learning of process engineers. Higher education institutions and lecturers do not only have to deal with all the new opportunities and changes for themselves but need to take the specifics and expectations of the future digital natives student generation into account. Likewise, industry needs to substantially foster and increase their life-long learning offers for the workforce to safeguard employability as well as competitiveness.