ABOUT

The main idea of the project is based on some lacks individuated by the consortium through the management of other European projects in mechatronic, metallurgy and automotive sectors.

As a matter of fact, there is not a proper communitarian legal framework concerning certifications of soft and transversal skills required to work in these sectors. Furthermore, the consortium has detected difficulties according to the recognition of skills and competences acquired during work as non-formal education learning process.

This leads to a stall of the implementation process of mobility and free movement of workers and students of these sectors within European Union.

The consortium involves 15 organisations with different profiles (chambers of commerce, VET institutions and clusters of mechatronics and automotive sector), in order to guarantee the creation of a bridge between education, training and labor market of the five involved countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovakia and Bulgaria).

The project will ensure the assessment of the needs and skills of the mechatronics and metallurgical sectors, develop training modules, draw new curricula that will respond to the labor market requirements. Therefore the project will ensure the testing of the outputs, the mobility of trainers and students and the dissemination activities.

Expected results: overcoming the diversity in legislation and national framework, creating synergies between education, training and labor market, facilitate cross-border certification.

The project aims to support fast track integration into labor market, promoting in this way the development of mechatronics and metallurgical sectors. The consortium's main purposes and results will be:

• Report “identification of skills and need in mechatronics and metallurgic industries”: the report will identify the general needs of European labor market of metallurgical and mechatronics sectors. Assessment of the needs and skills gap - in terms of need in mobility - in the sectors in each participating country will be used as a basis for the implementation of other project activities. The occupational profiles available on ESCO and the skills intelligent gathered by “European Sector Skills Councils” will be taken into consideration.
• Development of training modules: creation of optional training modules will be specifically created in order to let participants obtain soft and transversal skills.
• Creation of a new transnational vocational curricula: its aim is to facilitate free movement of students and workers within European mechatronics and metallurgical industries. The Consortium will create a new transnational and common vocational curriculum for complementary educational skills requested by the labor market in the five involved countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Slovakia). The CV will be acquired through optional training modules specifically created in order to obtain soft and transversal skills. It will include technical subjects and all relevant soft, transversal and complementary skills, allowing the training of skilled workers and enhancing the recognition of the VET CV at EU level in order to create synergies between education, training and labour market. The design and deliver of the new VET CV will ensure work-based learning principle according to EU Commission objectives. The VET CV can be easily introduced also in other EU countries through the e-tool created to facilitate the recognition of the skills acquired.
• Development of an e-card: the e-card will provide the possibility to upload the skills acquired through formal and non-formal educational experiences in mechatronics and metallurgical sectors, allowing young people to obtain a certificate required by industries of the target countries to facilitate their integration in the labor market. The creation of the e-card will be based on Spanish best practice “Tarjeta Profesional de la Construcción (TPC)”, Professional Construction Card (TPC). This e-card will record the skills, competences and knowledge acquired at formal and informal educational level in order to facilitate the recognition of the skills acquired and national and transnational mobility in the fields of the project.
• Testing of materials and outputs: Project results will be easily set into the practice thanks to the participation of VET institutes responsible to test the materials and outputs.
• Mobility of trainers and students: Project results will be put into the practice thanks to the mobility of selected students. They will attend the training modules and a part of them will be then selected to carry out a mobility experience in one of the country involved in the project.
• Dissemination activities: Dissemination activities will facilitate the exploitation of the achieved results. Stakeholders (mechatronics, metallurgical and automotive clusters, public and private organisations involved in the industrial sector or in the educational sector, chambers of commerce, enterprises of mechatronics and metallurgical sectors) will be involved in the project activities through consortium's dissemination and networking activities.

Direct target group: VET systems in manufacturing sector, most of all in mechatronics and metallurgical sectors of the countries involved in the project (Italy, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria and Slovakia). They will actively participate in the project activities, having an active role in assess the skills, design and test of the new VET CV, e-card development, participation in dissemination actions and in the mobility management process. Selected students will attend the training modules, and a part of them will be then selected to carry out a mobility experience in one of the country involved in the project.

Indirect target group: The project aims also to reach stakeholders and people potentially interested in the project outcomes, such as mechatronics, metallurgical and automotive clusters, public and private organisations involved in the industrial sector or in the educational sector, chambers of commerce, enterprises of mechatronics and metallurgical sectors.

The stakeholders will be involved in the project activities through dissemination and networking activities of the consortium (information through the project and partners’ websites, social network accounts, newsletter of the partners and of the project).

All partners will guarantee the allocation of the necessary resources, collaborating with local and national schools and universities and public authorities responsible for education and training at regional and national level.

Project partners and all interested people in adopting the new VET cv and the e-card will sign a Cooperation Agreement in order to create a strong network that will enhance the adoption of the main outcomes of the project. The Cooperation Agreement will last minimum 3 years since the signature of it.

PARNERS:

Germany:
ITALIENISCHE HANDELSKAMMER FUR DEUTSCHLAND
High tech Startbahn

Italy:
Univeristà Telematica UNINETTUNO
stituto Tecnico Tecnologico Statale A. Volta
Cluster regionale della metalmeccanica Friuli Venezia Giulia
Zip - Consorzio Zona Industriale di Padova

Spain:
Cámara de Comercio e Industria Italiana para España
Asociación Cluster de Automoción de Aragón
Conseller D’Educacio, Investigacio, Cultua I Esport – Generalitat Valenciana (IES Tirant Lo Blanc)
Asociacion de Empresarios del Comercio e Industria del Metal - Madrid Cluster de Automoción

Slovakia:
SOPK - Presovskaregionalnakomora
Cluster for Automation Technologies and Robotics Klaster AT+R
Elcom Spolocnosts Rucenim Obmedzenym, Presov

Bulgaria:
Technical University of Sofia
Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry