Future Work – how to equip trainers with competences to provide learners with skills for agile and digital work Erasmus Project

Project Title

Future Work – how to equip trainers with competences to provide learners with skills for agile and digital work

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

Digital innovation continues to change every business. Therefore businesses are facing the challenge to stay ahead of the market, particularly in Europe with growing market tensions from America and Asia. This is only possible when they understand threats and opportunities which come with a fast changing business environment. To create smarter, more efficient businesses is therefore the goal for all enterprises and employees play a crucial part in the success of every business.

Today, it’s often argued that flexibility helps organisations get more from their employees and teams. Many businesses now offer flexible working to help employees in this respect in their work/life balance; while some even go much further, implementing ‘‘AGILE WORKING’’ practices to enable all staff to work wherever and whenever they want, with the help of the latest technologies.

Businesses and employees need to get prepared for these digital future work environments, but according to the European Commission (Digital Education Plan, Action 2 SELFIE Tool, 2018) only 20-25% of students are taught by teachers who are confident with technology use. Only with a strategic foresight in education it will be possible to create an impact on EU’s education and training systems so that they are better aligned to the needs of and opportunities offered by the labour market, closer link businesses and the community aiming at future skills’ gaps and mismatches be avoided. Through appropriate measures, educational stakeholders can proactively plan for and lead the necessary change.

The project therefore aims to ANALYSE MISSING DIGITAL SKILLS of trainers and beneficiaries with the help of SELFIE which is based on the Framework for Digitally competent educational organisations (Digcomporg) developed by the European Commission.

Deriving from this, the project consortium will develop a FUTURE WORK MANUAL AND TOOLBOX FOR TRAINERS which will include exercises based on the needs’ results, since only skilled trainers are able to equip (future) employees with competences they need for a digital based working environment. It will also hold implementation recommendations to better address future work skills.

As a next step, to ensure an appropriate access to the future work skills for beneficiaries (defined as young adult learners from VET providers and higher educational institutions aged 16-25), the project consortium will develop a FUTURE WORK SKILLSAPP – a mobile app for this learner groups, holding also a CASE BOX FOR BENEFICIARIES with innovative exercises and learning activities.

All of these will be validated in pilot activities with trainers (in a C training activity) and in work-based learning when implementing lessons learnt in their work with their learners..
To sum up, the strategic partnership intends to produce outcomes, which benefit a more modern, dynamic, committed and professional environment inside organisations so that trainers get prepared to integrate new methods into daily teaching and working activities, which ultimately will benefit our beneficiaries to be equipped with future work skills as well as businesses to ensure they receive employees prepared for new work environments.

The following intellectual outputs will be produced:
– FUTURE WORK manual and toolbox for trainers (including exercises based on needs results and implementation recommendations to better address future work skills).
– FUTURE WORK SKILLS App – a mobile app for beneficiaries (based on needs results) with case box for beneficiaries (learning activities for them).

A number of dissemination events will support the consortium in their development and implementation work. Associated Partners will contribute with representatives of target audience to high quality results.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 183704 Eur

Project Coordinator

Dimitrie Cantemir University of Targu Mures & Country: RO

Project Partners

• DEKAPLUS BUSINESS SERVICES LTD
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• BEST INSTITUT FUR BERUFSBEZOGENE WEITERBILDUNG UND PERSONALTRAINING GMBH
• SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE INOVACAO CONSULTADORIA EMPRESARIAL E FOMENTO DA INOVACAO SA
• UMBRIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE