Enhance Adult Learners Digital Skills for Furniture Industry Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhance Adult Learners Digital Skills for Furniture Industry

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality Assurance

Project Summary

Context
The Digital Agenda for Europe initiative defines the enhancement of digital literacy and skills as the main pillar and promotes the implementation of long-term e-skills and digital literacy policies. According to the 2017 Digital Economy and Society Index, 44% of people in the EU have very low digital skills, 27% have only basic digital skills. 19% of the people in Europe do not use the Internet. Europe is undergoing a digital transformation and citizens must be equipped with appropriate skills to perform jobs and increase economic growth. In Furniture sector, 23% of the world production takes place in the EU28. The main manufacturing countries are Germany, Italy, Poland, and France. Furniture manufacturing in Central Eastern Europe is growing fast, especially in Poland, Romania, Lithuania, and Slovakia.
Industry 4.0 and networked production is becoming a must for furniture manufacturers: customers are becoming more and more individual, the complexity of production ever greater, the online marketing pushes on the pace. Industry 4.0 concepts are related to the automated production of individual products with the proper data usage.
Problem addressed
The project addresses the need for further training of adult trainers in order to enable them to teach digital skills with more efficient results and using ICT-based instruments, as a precondition for improving the digital skills of low-skilled adults and for supporting them to become more employable and socially integrated.
Target group
The target group includes adult educators providing training in Digital skills and Industry 4.0 for low-skilled adult learners in Furniture sector. The need for enhancing the digital skills in this sector is urgent because that will help companies to face the challenges of economic crises and to take advantage of the opportunities of globalization and home automation, for creating new products which can respond to the changes of the market.
Project aim and objectives
The project aims to support adult trainers in acquiring the necessary competences for teaching digital skills to low-skilled adults in Furniture industry, in order to guarantee the future furniture sector sustainable development and to foster their employability, socio-educational and professional development. The objectives include developing a training program for trainers, educational materials, and innovative instruments for supporting the training on digital skills for low-skilled adult employees in Furniture sector.
Project activities are organized in three outputs with the aim to develop:
– Training programme for trainers to enhance their capabilities for providing training in Digital skills and Industry 4.0 for low-skilled adult learners in Furniture industry.
– Educational kit for training low-skilled adult learners in Furniture industry on Digital skills and Industry 4.0.
– DigiFInd Platform for providing a learning environment for trainers and low-skilled adult learners in Furniture industry, hosting the Training programme for trainers and the Educational kit for low-skilled adults.
Partnership
The project gathered 8 partners from 5 European countries, forming a transnational cooperation partnership with a balanced regional geographical representation of the Erasmus+ Area.
Impact and long term benefits
• Increasing the adult trainer capacity for providing training on digital skills and Industry 4.0 to low-skilled adult learners in Furniture industry, by using the DigiFInd Platform, hosting the Training programme for trainers, and the Educational kit.
• Adult trainers benefit from concrete training curriculum, instruments, and tools they can use to deliver training on Digital skills and Industry 4.0 to low-skilled adults in Furniture industry.
• Offering relevant training courses on Digital skills and Industry 4.0 to low-skilled adults in Furniture industry in compliance with the end-user identified needs.
• Providing the DigiFInd Platform, which is publicly available, free of cost, and can be used by adult trainers for delivering training on digital skills and Industry 4.0 in all European and other interested countries.
• Employers in Furniture industry receive a flexible learning environment for developing and preparing low-skilled employees for coping with the challenges of the digital economy and Industry 4.0.
• Low-skilled employees in Furniture sector will have access to a suitable learning environment and materials to increase their digital skills to become more employable and socially integrated.
• Adult education organizations will benefit from concrete models, guidelines, and instruments for enhancing the quality of their training programs on digital skills addressed to low-skilled adults.
• Increasing the awareness of policymakers and adult education providers concerning the existing practices and challenges in the field of teaching digital skills to low-skilled adults.

Project Website

http://digifind.unwe.bg/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 232388 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL AND WORLD ECONOMY & Country: BG

Project Partners

• CESPIM – CENTRO STUDI PER L’INNOVAZIONE D’IMPRESA SRL
• Finance & Banking, Associazione per lo Sviluppo Organizzativo e delle Risorse Umane
• PRZEDSIEBIORSTWO WIELOBRANZOWE INTERKRES SPOLKA JAWNA SYLWESTER SMYK I ZBIGNIEW MAZUREK
• PAIZ Konsulting Sp. z o.o.
• BALGARSKA STOPANSKA KAMARA – SAYUZ NA BALGARSKIA BIZNES
• FACHHOCHSCHULE DES MITTELSTANDES (FHM) GMBH – UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE –
• S.C. Formare Manageriala in Turism – FMT S.R.L.