Netcompetence for a digitized working world 4.0 v.2 Erasmus Project

Project Title

Netcompetence for a digitized working world 4.0 v.2

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: Pedagogy and didactics; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

The digitisation of the world of work, especially in the context of Industry 4.0 and a new digital learning culture, requires enhanced competences of learners. In addition to specific professional core competences, skilled workers must also possess broad interdisciplinary competences in order to successfully meet the changes in industrial production and society. This implies correspondingly professional teachers who prepare young people for the professional requirements in the best possible way within the framework of initial and further vocational education and training. Teachers are faced with the challenges of, on the one hand, opening up the dynamic development of technologies for themselves and, on the other hand, establishing suitable learning implementation concepts in the training courses.
For this reason, the Strategic Partnership from five European countries (Norway, Germany, Lithuania, Austria and Portugal) has set itself the common goal of developing and testing new approaches to professionalising teachers in European initial and continuing vocational education and training in the context of Industry 4.0.

For this purpose, each partner institution develops one of the following “good practice” learning concepts based on its individual experience:

– Collaborative robots in industry 4.0
– Promoting interdisciplinary thinking in Industry 4.0 with “Science Shops”
– Learning concepts for Internet of Things (IoT) security
– Augmented reality with live data
– Production planning and production control in authentic industry 4.0 environments
– Concepts for learning location cooperation 4.0

In a second step, corresponding specialist teachers from all partners learn these diverse teaching implementations in joint training events according to the concept of the pedagogical “Biplane”, in which the teachers themselves become the learners in order to develop an independent learning experience. Here, an intensive exchange is expected both on a professional and pedagogical level. It is hoped that this form of teacher professionalisation will have a more lasting effect than conventional formats and that the concepts will be incorporated into the corresponding partner institutions. It can also be transferred as a further training concept to other areas.
The Strategic Partnership provides recommendations for action/guidelines and corresponding learning material for the “good practice” learning concepts.
Via the project website, other interested parties can benefit from the concepts and transfer them to their own institutions.

The consortium is coordinated and evaluated by the Vocational Training Institute Work and Technology (biat) of the Europa-Universität Flensburg. In addition to the conditions of success for this form of teacher professionalisation, the learning concepts will be placed in the context of European vocational training programmes and the professional profiles of the labour market. Learning outcome-based descriptions of competences, if necessary also in the form of competence grids, can be used in the longer term by actors in vocational training planning but also in school-wide, instructional implementation.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 374824 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPA-UNIVERSITAT FLENSBURG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ATEC – Associação de Formação para a Industria
• Regionales Bildungszentrum Eckener-Schule AöR
• Fagskolen i Viken
• Gewerbliche Schulen des Lahn-Dill-Kreises
• HTBLuVA St. Poelten
• VILNIAUS TECHNOLOGIJU IR DIZAINO KOLEGIJA