Network for future innovation of major competences in vocational education and training in construction Erasmus Project

Project Title

Network for future innovation of major competences in vocational education and training in construction

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: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project was located in the context of VET in the construction branch mainly and to some extent in VET in general. The context was furthermore defined by the areas and scopes of works of the partners, i.e. VET in the narrow sense and implicit increase of the proper use of digital devices in VET and the use of them in the VET-centres themselves. Also the scientific approaches as well as the didactical methods introducing and further developing of work-based training (e.g. dual systems in VET). The context of transition phases in VET (in general and in particular in construction) defined the work program and the professional exchange of experience in that project.
The objectives were the professional exchange of experience concerning:
– Building Information Modelling (BIM) – reference: e.g. European Law on public procurement (2014/24/EU) but also specific national regulations
– Work-based learning – reference: e.g. the success of the German Dual System and how it could be improved (WinAPP project for digitalisation of the method, 2016-1-DE02-KA202-003258) or how to adapt it in other countries (chance or risk); work-process orientation – pragmatic approach; Master BSR project results; ConstructyVET project results, etc.
– Digitalisation in VET – reference: new key competence in context with the “Digital Competence Framework – DigComp 2.0”; what did that practically mean for VET and its stakeholders?; the recent trend of “seamless learning” – an approach for construction VET?; digital preparations of pupils; digital competences of teaching staff (VET-teachers, VET-trainers)
– Transition into, in and out of VET – e.g. results of the conference “Transitions to VET and the labour market – A joint effort by BIBB and Céreq to strengthen research at the European level” on 7th of Feb. 2017 in Brussels as impulses for the recent exchange in NETconVET; transition school > VET; transition initial > further VET; transition VET > tertiary level and vice versa; responsibilities of all stakeholders.
Incorporating a state-of-the-art at the beginning, the consortium aimed at understanding the conditions under which VET recently took place in the countries and then finding pratical and pragmatic approaches, how recent and future necessities could be 1. defined and 2. coped with. Therefore the needs like how to implement BIM in an European approach in VET, how to adjust work-based learning in countries to a more market oriented form, how to cope with digitalisation in VET on all stages (not only on the learners side) and eventually how thresholds in VET could be avoided or at least how previous records of individuals could be integrated were subject – among others – to that project.
The target groups were:
– for BIM: companies (mostly SMEs) and the entrepreneur, apprentices, company trainers, VET-trainers, VET-teachers, site management and middle-management staff in construction
– for work-based learning: apprentices, VET-trainers, VET-centres, public authorities
– for digitalisation: VET-centres, VET-schools, companies, VET-trainers, VET-teachers, apprentices
– for transition in VET: schools in general, VET-centres, companies, professionals, public authorities
The project was designed in an international process, because the mutual learning related to those major topics in (construction-) VET was appropriate to cope with the requirements of one of the most transborder-determined branches. The intense exchange and later on better understanding of country-specific determinations in VET lead to an easier consulting of customers in VET, i.e. mainly individuals. All those topics and issues were dedicated to improve the labor market access of individuals, the market figures and some key performance indicators in the construction branch in terms of quantity (better educated and trained individuals, higher output for companies, thus more taxes), quality (enrichment of VET, coping with modern contexts like digitalisation and technical regulations, modernisation of VET-centres) and eventually mobility due to more harmonized approach in some areas of VET.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98715 Eur

Project Coordinator

BILDUNGSZENTREN DES BAUGEWERBES EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• SATAKUNNAN KOULUTUSKUNTAYHTYMA
• EUROPEAN BUILDERS CONFEDERATION
• VIESOJI ISTAIGA VILNIAUS STATYBININKU RENGIMO CENTRAS
• CENTRE IFAPME LIEGE HUY VERVIERS ASBL
• INSTYTUT BADAN EDUKACYJNYCH
• OPEN UNIVERSITEIT NEDERLAND
• FUNDACION LABORAL DE LA CONSTRUCCION