Designing and Testing new management skills for the development of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycling and Re-use System in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Designing and Testing new management skills for the development of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycling and Re-use System in Europe

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits); Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

The EwasteR – “Designing and Testing new management skills for the development of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycling and Re-use System in Europe” is a three years Sector Skills Alliance project funded by ERASMUS + programme (2014-2020). The EwasteR project sector in the SSA framework is “Environmental technologies”.

EwasteR was primarily concerned with the vocational education and training (VET) dimension of the WEEE reuse and recycling management systems.

The EwasteR project developed an innovative European competency Framework – new high-quality interdisciplinary VET Curriculum and professional profile for “E- waste Reuse and Recycling Specialist”, working through the production and the waste phase of a product, increasing the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship as well as the quality and potential of employability and mobility and bringing to award new Qualifications to be transferred into NQF-RQF, becoming accessible to a broader audience. The three years EwasteR journey, undertaken through a series of nine closely related work packages, developed and established the partnership as a collaborative high performance team.

The EwasteR alliance consists of four different countries (Italy, UK, Poland, and Cyprus) and thirteen organisations from different sectors as requested by the Sector Skills Alliance action. i) Public or private entities that provide VET, higher education; ii) Public or private entities that have sector specific expertise and represent or are active in a given sector (at regional, national and/or European level); iii) Public or private entities that have a regulatory function for education and training systems (at regional, national and/or European level).

The EwasteR project addressed the increasingly relevance of the Electrical and electronic waste (E-waste) sector in Europe which is currently the largest growing waste stream.

The main beneficiaries of the project are young aspiring workers/technicians and entrepreneurs (learners) wishing to work in the weee recycling and reuse management sector.

The EwasteR Consortium has been collaborating for three years achieving a comprehensive series of inter-related results to address these issues, specifically:

•Mapping of the current qualifications routes across Europe relevant to this field of UEEE/WEEE reuse and recycling and producing a final Research Report
•Collaboratively designing and developing a joint professional training curriculum for “E- waste Reuse and Recycling Specialist” with a strong package of “VET” Units – combining: i) management skills area and ii) vocational skills area – tightly connected to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF Level 4) and experimenting the EU Credit system for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET)
•Designing and delivering National PILOT training activities through an integrated blended approach including: career guidance, classroom, open management schools, labs shadowing and LOs assessment, and involving young and well-motivated aspiring technicians/specialists, learners, experts and VET providers.
•Designing a joint Handbook including the final transparent recognition and validation process for the assessment of learning outcomes
•New EwasteR Qualifications awarded at National level (Italy) and transferred into NQF-RQF and new processes for awarding and transferring (Qualification designed or part of it) started and implemented in the other Countries in compliance with each National legal-framework, increasing the employability-occupation chances in the sector across Europe.
•Providing new mobility opportunities in EU for aspiring entrepreneurs in the wee recycling and reuse sector through the EYE programme
•Defining a multi-actor approach to undertake a comprehensive raising awareness programme about the SSA framework, VET dimension of the WEEE recycling and reuse across EU, through robust dissemination activities

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 560525 Eur

Project Coordinator

E.RI.FO.-ENTE DI RICERCA E FORMAZIONE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE
• LONDON COMMUNITY RESOURCE NETWORK
• INSTYTUT OCHRONY SRODOWISKA – PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY
• FUNDACJA INSTYTUT BADAN NAD DEMOKRACJA I PRZEDSIEBIORSTWEM PRYWATNYM
• INSTYTUT BADAN EDUKACYJNYCH
• EDEX – EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE CORPORATION LIMITED
• CYPRUS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY