Training programme and serious game for the qualification of prevention and fire fighting operators Erasmus Project

Project Title

Training programme and serious game for the qualification of prevention and fire fighting operators

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

According to the results of the study (EU-SILC 2008, Eurostat. Perceived health in workers aged 15-64 in the EU27), 19% of all deaths produced in the EU-27 are workers in working age.
Forestry, scientific and statistical data support that there are high rates of mortality and morbidity in the development of the activity, specifically regarding diseases overexertion and safety risks arising from the prevention own Firefighting.
Fire extinguishing is developed in difficult conditions, as the nature of the emergency requires urgent action, jobs are painful and exhausting and almost always develop in an atmosphere of precipitation and nervousness. Prevention work and firefighting require a high demand physical and psychological, which sometimes can lead to an imbalance with the capabilities of workers. It is therefore necessary qualify to properly in each of the skills of his job in order to obtain a quick response, as required for work in this sector.
Psychophysical requirements that are required for the performance of tasks, may be incompatible with the skills of workers after a certain age, due to changes characteristic of aging, which are exacerbated or increased by these requirements and cannot be made the work with full guarantees for the safety and health of workers from a certain age. So that there is a mismatch of the physical and psychological demands on performance, it is needed there specific training in accordance with those requirements that are directed at improving the development of the skills of the operator in his job at an early age, from the point of view of health and safety
The objectives were: Development of a specific training program based in a Serious Game for prevention and firefighting operator that takes into account the activities carried out and that includes the physical and mental requirements necessary, and skills and capabilities to consider in the development of Europe-wide Training Program, in a context of aging population. Develop a report that brings to notice the impact of aging on physical, sensory and motor capacities of prevention and firefighting operator, and its incidence to perform safely the tasks related to prevention and firefighting, because high stress, toxic and dangerous jobs.

Forestgame was created on the base of the Moodle and is available for use on mobile devices and PCs. The nature of this work requires a tool that can be used anywhere. Training program: http://moodle.beti.lt
In this project the TP was compiled with the help of training modules that combine the medical, physical, technical and mental conditions that allow workers to gain their skills.

The project had 2IO:
1.Report: Job Profile Diagram and Training Program For Workers Operators Of Prevention And Extinguishing Forest Fires.
After, we had a physiogram specific for The operator prevention and fire fighting including skills and capabilities to consider in developing the Training Program is held at European level. Finally had been developed the European Training Program for the acquisition of the necessary skills, which enable adequate professionalization of prevention and fire fighting operator.
2.Training By Serious Game: Trivial “Forestgame”.
While the training program in digital support includes all the necessary training for the development of the tasks of this job, thereby enabling initial training and periodic, the Serious game allowed majoring these workers in specific aspects of greater relevance using an app. By its interactive nature It allows to transport workers your work setting. This app is therefore it is more specific on those aspects of practical training and / or risk.

PARTNERSHIP: SGS (Spain), GWU (Malta), BETI (Lithuania), ASEMFO (Spain), ENB (Portugal).

This project achieved a unified training program in the whole Europe, to perform with full guarantees of safety and health workplace the activities of extinguishing and fire prevention of forest sector.
The program consists of 9 modules and tests with different levels. The program was tested by forestry experts. Based on their evaluations and recommendations, were made different improvements and at the moment, the training is a useful tool that has already begun to be used in the consortium countries.
This is multidisciplinary training that integrates medical aspects of physical, technical and mental condition because of the high psychophysical demands of the job. It is achieving the professionalizing the sector across Europe through a training tool available to download by anyone. The training program is easy to distribute and share because it’s embedded in an App/website, so results of tests can be analyzed easily by the consortium through Big Data analytics to improve the training over time.

http://forestgame.eu
The Project results have been published in Open Access platforms:
https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/63439/overview
https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/resource-centre/content/forestgame-project

Project Website

http://forestgame.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 87668,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

SGS TECNOS & Country: ES

Project Partners

• ASOCIACIÓN NACIONAL DE EMPRESAS FORESTALES
• Viesoji istaiga Baltijos edukaciniu technologiju institutas
• Escola Nacional de Bombeiros
• General Workers Union
• FNAPF – Federação Nacional das Associações de Proprietários Florestais