Preparing professional drivers for their role within the fourth industrial revolution and its innovations within road transportation. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Preparing professional drivers for their role within the fourth industrial revolution and its innovations within road transportation.

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Transport and mobility

Project Summary

There are major changes within and related to the professional driving profession ahead of us that need to be prepared and supported by vocational education and training in order to reach its full potential but also to avoid a further increase of already today’s major deficits of skilled workers in this field that belongs continuously to the Top Ten jobs employers are having difficulty filling. For this purpose it is of major importance to think ahead of time and to develop a vision of this profession in future under consideration of megatrends, trends and innovations influencing this occupational profile in order to get ready for changes that are ahead. The FutureDRV project investigated this future of professional driving by taking a look into tasks and role of professional drivers and their qualification requirements in 2030 and beyond.
The FutureDRV results understand the way towards a well qualified future workforce within professional driving as a joined effort that requires the engagement of all groups of stakeholders concerned. It approaches not only a single set of competences or measures to be addressed/ undertaken by an individual stakeholder with its approach but takes this occupation as a whole into the focus. It, therefore, approached the future of professional driving from different angles in order to address those aspects sufficiently and comprehensively.
The project developed
__a FutureDRV PROFILE describing the professional driver and its future role and the related knowledge, skills and competences within the 4th industrial revolution. The FutureDRV profile aspires to become a major reference on future skill needs within professional driving within the upcoming 15 to 20 years._
_exemplary FutureDRV LEARNING SOLUTIONS that support the current workforce to keep up with the changing and increasing qualification requirements. Those learning solutions address learning outcomes (communication skills) new to the current workforce taking up trends within learning and adapting those to the characteristics of drivers. In this way flagship learning solutions have been developed pointing the way towards the future of competence-building within this vocational field as part of lifelong learning._
_FutureDRV RECOMMENDATIONS addressing all stakeholders concerend such as employers and VET providers with suggestions how to prepare professional drivers for their future requirements. They identify actions to be taken in the context of individual EU Members States in order to take the characteristics of those systems into account. Finally they address the European level and here specifically Directive 2003/59/EC and its role within preparing professional drivers for the future._
_finally, a FutureDRV TIMELINE allows a look into the past of professional driver qualification as well as an outlook into future developments based on the projects research results. It takes up trends and innovations and their interrelations with each other and with qualification requirements on drivers.
All together the FutureDRV project results equip the transport sector with valuable tools and recommendations for the development of a professional driver workforce capable of meeting the future needs of the sector across Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 406619,16 Eur

Project Coordinator

DEKRA AKADEMIE GMBH & Country: DE

Project Partners

• DEKRA SE
• ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DE LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE DANSLES TRANSPORTS
• DEKRA Akademie Felnöttképzö, Munkavédelmi és Szolgáltató Kft.
• StageIT AB
• Transformotion Limited
• 3S RESEARCH LABORATORY – FORSCHUNGSVEREIN