Sector Skills Strategy in Additive Manufacturing Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sector Skills Strategy in Additive Manufacturing

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 : Sector Skills Alliances in vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

As Europe seeks to retain its leading position for industrial competitiveness, there is an urgent need to establish a platform for Additive Manufacturing (AM) skills at European, National and Regional levels. AM processes enable economic component production through efficient use of materials and increased design freedom as compared to conventional manufacturing. AM also raises the level of digital literacy among workers and it contributes to the digitisation of European Industry. The Sector Skills Strategy in Additive Manufacturing Project (SAM) tackles the current European need of developing an efective system to identify and anticipate the right skills for the Additive Manufacturing (AM) sector demands in response to the increasing labour market needs, thus, contributing for the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth of the AM sector.Sam project main features are: – A Skills Strategy in Additive Manufacturing providing solutions capable to foster and support the growth, the innovation and competitiveness of the AM sector;- A methodology for a sustainable and continuous assessment of current and future skills needs in AM trough the Observatory in Additive Manufacturing, providing just in time mapping and monitoring of the AM industry technological trends, skills shortages and mismatches, policies and figures; – Design, review and deploy of relevant qualifications in the AM sector, built with a learning outcomes approach and linked with EU Frameworks and Tools such as the EQF, e-CF, EntreComp, ECVET and ECTS;- Promotion of the attractiveness of the AM sector as a career choice for primary, general education, VET and university’s students Awareness Campaign in the field of AM; and- One online Qualifications catalogue to continuously update and enlarge the European AM Qualification System, integrating all the developed and to be developed sectoral qualifications.

Project Website

http://www.skills4am.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 3971076 Eur

Project Coordinator

EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR WELDING JOINING AND CUTTING & Country: BE

Project Partners

• PANEPISTIMIO PATRON
• BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON
• FUNDACION IDONIAL
• INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE
• COMITE EUROPEEN DE COOPERATION DES INDUSTRIES DE LA MACHINE-OUTIL CECIMO AISBL
• GRANTA DESIGN LTD
• LZH LASER AKADEMIE GMBH