Innovation Garage of Garages Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovation Garage of Garages

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: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal)

Project Summary

Context
Transport is responsible for 27% of EU greenhouse gas emissions. The mobility sector is a crucial driver for the transition to a carbon-neutral future, with particular reference to passenger and freight transport. Transport and mobility services employ 11 million people, but transport generates pollution, accounting for almost a quarter of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, electric/hybrid vehicles make it possible to reverse the trend towards reducing CO2 emissions and sustainable transport, and the synergy between VET and automotive companies is a strategic asset.
Specific Objectives
-design, test and release (OER) of didactic content based on WBL methodology related to skills for the assembly and repair of vehicle electrification technologies / on-board avionics and first intervention procedures
The resources for teaching will be expendable in I-VET and H-VET for the training of mechatronic operators, autronic technicians and car-repairers and transferable to other training settings, for work-based learning in laboratories or on the job (C-VET).
Needs Analysis
VET provider: adaptation of programs and teaching methodologies for the work based application of skills both for the assembly and maintenance of electric vehicles and for the design & maintenance of on-board avionics, as an evolution of the paradigm of sustainable mobility with resource saving, reduction of energy consumption and emissions;
Business Partners: to favour the alignment of the VET sector to the demand for skills and the access of workers to knowledge/skills related to electric/hybrid engines and their maintenance/intervention, as well as to on-board avionics.
Participants
1 Coordinator Cisita Parma, expert in situated learning and WBL processes
5 VET providers (EQF3-4-5 level) in Italy (Ferrari VET and ITS Maker), Sweden (GTG), The Netherlands (Stichting ROC Midden) and VAVM Lithuania, all specialized in the automotive sector.
3 companies from the automotive sector(Volvo Production house in SE), 1 SME focused on car repair (Lituania) & 1 SME with specific know how in consultancy e training on electric/hybrid engines (INNOVAM NL)
Target Group VET LEARNERS within INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS: 20 students*5 Output (IO2-IO3-I04-IO5-IO6) * 5 VET providers, selected among EQF 3, EQF4 (I-VET), EQF 5 (H-VET) or continuous training of workers for professional requalification/upgrading (C-VET); at least 15 VET teachers, 8 company technician and 4 company managers/trainers + 1 APPLICANT researcher within the 4 Innovation Garage/country
Methodology
Innovation Garage methodology applied to the work-based learning environment, for the development of educational programs, to be released in the form of OER, dedicated to the installation and maintenance of technologies for the electrification of vehicles and on-board avionics, as well as the procedures of road intervention and technical assistance. The Innovation Garage is a methodology for the development of innovation related to Design Thinking, and provides for the establishment of a “start-up” of product/process innovation / organizational models within the company context as a workplace, but open to the outside and co-designed – in technology, setting up the setting, hierarchical and operational relations, work processes – by VET teachers and trainers, VET students and workers in continuous training.
Activities
IO1: training programme for teachers, released as OER, for the transfer of the methodology of the Innovation garage located in the work place (WBL), to be tested within the C1 Short Term Joint Training Activity), aimed at the implementation of situated learning programmes, dedicated to electric/hybrid vehicles and their assembly/maintenance, as well as to on-board avionics and assistance and first intervention procedures. IO2: WBL-based OER training program located inside the innovation garage, related to assembly and installation of vehicle electrification technologies; IO3: WBL-based OER training program located inside the innovation garage, related to maintenance/repair of vehicle electrification technologies; IO4: WBL-based OER training program located in the innovation garage relating to the installation/verification of on-board avionics safety requirements; IO5: WBL-based OER training program located in the innovation garage relating to on-board avionics maintenance; IO6: WBL-based OER training program located in the innovation garage relating to customer service and first intervention procedures on the vehicle.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 351335 Eur

Project Coordinator

Cisita Parma scarl & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Stichting VAM
• VOLVO LASTVAGNAR AB
• VILNIAUS AUTOMECHANIKOS IR VERSLO MOKYKLA
• UAB “Moller Auto“
• I.I.S. A. Ferrari
• Göteborgs Tekniska College AB
• FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO TECNICO SUPERIORE MECCANICA, MECCATRONICA, MOTORISTICA, PACKAGING