South East Europe harmonised qualification of professional Drivers Erasmus Project

Project Title

South East Europe harmonised qualification of professional Drivers

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Recognition, transparency, certification; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

SEED project has gathered 9 partners in 7 European countries: Promotrans (France), IRU Projects (Belgium), POU, EKOmobilis, Oryx (Croatia), COB (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia, AMERIT (FYR of Macedonia), TEMPULLI (Kosovo). All 9 partners specialize in road freight transport training. The European directive 2003/59/EC regulates common basic and continuous training – 35 hours every 5 years – for professional drivers to make sure their skills are keeping up with a rapidly-evolving transport environment. The directive has been extended to EU candidate countries. The preparation phase has shed some light on SEED partner countries of South East Europe (SEE): they are at different stages of the implementation of EU directive. Furthermore, shared training and professional practices are lacking in the SEE region. SEED aims to raise the level of professionalism in road transport for both instructors and drivers (the 2 targets of the project) by increasing the level of training and technical skills for these actors operating in a key sector for the European economy. By making the best use of their “differences,” skills, knowledge and expertise of the field, the SEED partners have produced a thorough multilingual training program in conformity with the European regulations and adapted to their own transport environment. It contains a core program enriched with partners’ own training provisions, videos, driver’s and instructor’s guidebooks, as well as evaluation tools. These training resources have been tested during the SEED training activities targeted to instructors, then to drivers. These activities have also been the opportunity to promote innovative and interactive pedagogical methods whilst exploring new training and learning strategies in the field of road transport. A National workshop for awareness-building, a EU conference as well as an ATI Regional meeting have been set up in order to showcase the SEED project outcomes, their quality and relevance to the wider community of private and public stakeholders of the road freight transport industry in South East Europe. The positive feedback received from the project partners’, instructors’, drivers’ satisfaction surveys as well as people participating in the dissemination activities augurs well for the project in term of sustainability. By raising the number of qualified CPC Driver instructors and well-trained professional drivers concerned with eco-driving and road safety, SEED has a real added-value for South East Europe, thus contributing to the further opening of the European road haulage market.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 404076,53 Eur

Project Coordinator

PROMOTRANS & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Pucko otvoreno uciliste Auto moto centar Nova Gradiska
• ORYX GRUPA d.o.o. za edukaciju i usluge
• SIZ Makedonija Soobrakaj AMERIT-Skopje
• PRIVREDNA KOMORA SRBIJE
• EKOMOBILIS d.o.o.
• IRU PROJECTS ASBL
• Srednja strukovna skola s pravom javnosti Centar za obrazovanje