Paint Tutors up Erasmus Project

Project Title

Paint Tutors up

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: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

UNIEP, representing the Painting Contractors of the Building sector, has identified 3 key challenges: a) the lack of young people entering the profession, b) the lack of quality in education/training, and c) the lack of knowledge of market innovation by the painters and training institutions.
The shortage of young professionals represents a key problem for the future of the sector. Plus, there is a lack in the quality of the training of painters.
PaintUp aims to reinforce the tutor’s role in work-based learning, namely in the apprenticeship systems with the involvement of the sector stakeholders and a strong engagement from the companies.
The objective of this project is to bring out, through a mapping of the tutor’s role in different VET contexts, the common elements that could make a contribution to a painting, decorating and finishing sector approach, motivating VET providers, schools, companies and teachers, trainers and tutors to improve their skills, namely transversal skills, through a unit learning outcome qualification specifically addressed to the tutors. The tutor plays a crucial role in improving the employability of the trainees and apprentices. The quality of the tutor’s training can increase the attractiveness of the sector for the young people boosting skills and employability.
The 7-member partnership is balanced between partners with a strong experience in European projects and new-coming partners. Gathering different traditions on the tutor’s role, PaintUp aims to bring together different perspectives and to establish a framework for tutors to support the painter companies in UNIEP’s and other countries (the transnationality of the project).
To promote PaintUp’s objectives, UNIEP set up a partnership with the following members:
CCCA-BTP is a French professional organization in charge of coordinating the apprenticeship in the construction industry.
Doncaster College (UK) is a VET provider with strong competences in the painting sector and apprenticeship programmes. It comprises around 150 staff members and 10000 students, working with full time apprentices. The College delivers a variety of courses in all areas, namely construction and painting.
EPP (BE) is a brand-new association that seeks to share the experiences/projects of UNIEP, UNIEP-related educational institutes and manufacturers through a platform dedicated to the Painting sector (VET, students and apprentices, tutors and trainers, companies and producer.
IFAPME (BE) is a training centre with around 15.000 students and more than 1000 certified people per year.
SIOV is a professional and educational institution of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic. It is the only professional and pedagogical guarantor for the issues of vocational education and training for the whole network of secondary VET schools, with extensive expertise in the field and cooperation with employers and professional organizations.
IMANO (PT) is a private sector organisation which brings together a network of international and national experts in vocational education and training (VET). Its flexible structure permitted to develop extensive experience in providing expert support to public and private sector companies.
PaintUp’s activities comprise a) a mapping of the tutor’s function in painting SMEs, b) a tutor’s practical activities guide, c) a learning tool for company’s tutors in Learning Outcomes, and d) the designing of an on-line course tailored to tutors.
The project will use a methodology based on comparative situations and exchange of practices that are based on the context of learning experiences. This approach would put together professionals from different countries and backgrounds and make them work directly and actively with the tutors. It will help find out the companies’ needs, the learners’ expectations and the educational delivery.
The envisaged impact is to improve the training and professional capacities of the building painting sector’s tutors; to strengthen the transversal skills required by the SMEs in the painting/building sector; to involve VET providers, painting SMEs and national associations from the painting sector in the activities; to recognize of the units of learning outcomes of the new qualification: Painting Tutor (ECVET technical framework); an open access to the on-line course; to foster sector cooperation initiatives at national and transnational level; to enhance the WBL period as a way of supporting employability of the youth in the sector; to improve training provision adapted to labor market needs; to recognize a new sector-oriented qualification; to fill the gap between the SMEs needs and the young generation’s expectations so as to increase the sector attractiveness.
The sustainability of the project will be assured by an adequate training of tutors in the painting sector through a free on-line course available on the brand-new project website and on the website of each partner.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158832,02 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNION INTERNATIONALE DES ENTREPRENEURS DE PEINTURE ASBL & Country: LU

Project Partners

• CENTRE IFAPME LIEGE HUY VERVIERS ASBL
• COMITE DE CONCERTATION ET DE COORDINATION DE L APPRENTISSAGE DU BATIMENT ET DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS
• STATNY INSTITUT ODBORNEHO VZDELAVANIA
• EUROPEAN PAINTING PARTNERS
• IMANOVATION LDA
• DN COLLEGES GROUP