MachinE Tool ALliance for Skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

MachinE Tool ALliance for Skills

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 2015

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The MachinE Tool ALliance for Skills (METALS) intended first to map out and identify skills needs in the European machine tool sector, studying which technology areas would become more prominent and where more competences would be needed. Second, it aimed at preparing online learning materials in line with the emerging technologies identified.To this extent, in the initial phase of the project, the consortium conducted surveys, interviews with experts and desk research and concluded that additive manufacturing is a technology area that would prominently impact on the skill set of the European machine tool workforce between 2015 and 2025. On the basis of these findings, the consortium then prepared a European machine tool skills panorama concretely presenting skills needs in key areas of the advanced manufacturing process (such as design, operation and maintenance) within this time span This panorama paved the ground for the development of a curriculum on additive manufacturing at EQF level 5, whose final version included 27 learning units (26 in the English version) divided along three main knowledge areas: work process-oriented area, additive manufacturing-specific area and entrepreneurship-oriented area. Based on this curriculum, METALS partners prepared e-learning materials meant to address the current and future skills gaps in the European machine tool industry, particularly in relation to additive manufacturing technologies. These learning materials were prepared with significant focus on clearly defined learning outcomes and made freely available in English, Italian, German and Spanish in the project e-learning platform (https://metals.mobil-lernen.com/en/elearning). The array of project results has been endorsed by a variety of leading actors in this community, including additive manufacturing machine producers and universities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 858080 Eur

Project Coordinator

COMITE EUROPEEN DE COOPERATION DES INDUSTRIES DE LA MACHINE-OUTIL CECIMO AISBL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• BEZIRKSREGIERUNG DETMOLD
• ECOLE – ENTI CONFINDUSTRIALI LOMBARDI PER L’EDUCATION – SOCIETA’ CONSORTILE A R.L.
• ASOCIACION ESPAÑOLA DE FABRICANTES DE MAQUINAS-HERRAMIENTA, SUS ACCESORIOS, COMPONENTES, HERRAMIENTAS DE CORTE Y DEFORMACION, OTROS SISTEMAS Y TECNOLOGIAS DE FABRICACION
• DEPARTAMENTO DE EDUCACION, POLITICA LINGUISTICA Y CULTURA DEL GOBIERNO VASCO
• AGENZIA METROPOLITANA PER LA FORMAZIONE, L’ORIENTAMENTO E IL LAVORO
• UCIMU-SISTEMI PER PRODURRE
• NACHWUCHSSTIFTUNG MASCHINENBAU GGMBH