Dual Learning for Improving Digital Skills of Young Woodworkers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Dual Learning for Improving Digital Skills of Young Woodworkers

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

WOODigital aims at developing a dual learning system to enhance digital skills of young Europeans interested in entrepreneurial ad employment opportunities in the woodworking and furniture sector. The model proposed is thought to be strongly work-based and provided with a component of international mobility, so as to provide young learners with the opportunity to apply knowledge in real work-life situations.
The action is targeted to help the EU youth becoming a key driver for challenging the emergence of Industry 4.0 and IoT, which have been soundly reshaping the woodworking and furniture industry in recent times.
As well, it contributes to feed with young skilled workers a sector made up almost completely of SMEs and aged workforce, thus avoiding the loss of European manufacturing and craftsmanship history.
The project thrives within both cooperation and knowledge frameworks of other EU projects (WOODUAL, FUNES, IM-FUTURE, DIGIT-FUR, and others), which have been claiming the use of dual learning system in wood and furniture sector to improve digital skills and employability of young people and cooperation between business and VET providers across Europe.
At the core of the project there is a strategic management of knowledge by:
– fostering teaching and learning of digital skills, WOODigtial strives to strengthen employability and key competences of young people, making woodworking a knowledge-based industry. The more woodworking processes and products are digital and digitalized, the more data and information are available to SMEs and other relevant players to make their offer more effective and valuable to the market, enhancing the decision-making process;
– running a feedback loop, the partnership is committed to nurture strategic links to further enhance synergies among woodworking-based projects at EU level;
– being involved in long-lasting cooperation and business relationships, partners have been producing new knowledge that is worth to be investigated through additional resources, facilitating a knowledge-transfer process between education and business for mutual improvements.

Project Website

http://www.woodigital.eu/en/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 294960 Eur

Project Coordinator

INTERPROFESSIONNELLE AUVERGNE RHONE ALPES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• CONSORZIO DEL MOBILE SCPA
• CENTRE DE DIFUSIO TECNOLOGICA DE LA FUSTA I DEL MOBLE DE CATALUNYA
• FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA DELLE INDUSTRIE DEL LEGNO DEL SUGHERO DEL MOBILEE DELL’ ARREDAMENTO ASSOCIAZIONE
• MAGYAR BUTOR ES FAIPARI SZOVETSEG
• GALWAY-MAYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY