Simulation of Logistics and Transport processes Erasmus Project

Project Title

Simulation of Logistics and Transport processes

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Transport and mobility; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project fits the national and EU strategies for Vocational Education and Training (VET), enhancing the dual system through a closer collaboration between the business system and the Educational one, and widening the use of a work based learning approach. It must be considered that the 7 project partners are an institute of research (ITL – IT), a secondary school (CPIP – SP), a training centre (CIFPA – SP), a university (Antwerp – BE), a company (Freight Village of Parma – IT), a sectoral association (AFT – FR), and a society for technologies and communication (Poliedra – IT). Moreover, are up to 10 the organizations (companies, schools, public authorities) that have already proven their support to the project.
Despite its ancient military origin, only today logistics (the sector addressed by this project) has been recognized as fundamental element for business competitiveness, but also as a pillar for the economic, environmental and social sustainability, and its introduction in the education and training system it is someway recent, therefore to be enhanced.
For this reasons, the project aims to realize six simulation tools, addressing the main sectoral fields, that replicate the operational procedures of these areas, in order to allow to students and trainees the carrying out of the practical, typical and daily tasks that they will have to implement on the job. The main objective is clearly to facilitate dei job inclusion of these medium-high skilled professional profiles (4th and 5th EQF level in particular), reducing the gap between training and education, with their more traditional and theorical methodologies, and the practical business operativity.
The tools will be realized in close collaboration with those working and operational contexts that they will replicate. Products will be the complementary element of the current VET courses and will benefits for the attraction that such ICT tools have in respect of the younger generations, as they will be realized as videogames with different scenarios, scores and stages, matching the uses and the today technologies, especially for youth.
As mentioned, tools will be referred to six fields of activity, and to six professional profiles linked to these fields, that are highly relevant for the sector: Supply Chain Management, intermodal transport, maritime transport and seaport activities, customs procedures, road transport, warehousing. For each of these fields the processes will be described, together with the operations, the time scheduling, the other actors involved, the tools and the documents available and to be used, in order to desing the simulation tools or the interactive software that replicated the main task carried out by the professionals of the sector. In particular, it will be realized: an interactive tool for the calculation of the all costs related to the logistics and transport supply chain, a warehouse management software (WMS) for training objectives, a simulator for the operational management of an intermodal terminal, an interactive tool for the calculation of costs of sea-port activities and the planning of infrastructures and equipment, a simulated role game for the management of custom practices and a simulator for the monitoring of road transport missions.
These applications represent the whole supply chain related to a container that from an extra-EU country is shipped to an EU customer, therefore their use allow to provide a comprehensive view of the sector and its main sub-sectors.
The tools will be tested during the project through the wide involvment of teachers and learners, and only after the detection of the users’ satisfaction, as well as of the quality of learning, they will be finalized. A specific technical and training documentation will be prepared in order to support the use: a user manual for the functionig, manuals on technical contensts and knowledge related to the simulated procedures, Competence (according to ECVET method) and Educational Standards for the inclusion in training courses and the transparency of learning outcomes.
Expected impacts refer to increased operational skills of learners, in order to ease the job inclusion, making the training for the sector more attractive, thanks also to an innovative and quality-oriented methodology that merges the training competences with the business operations, and that can be complementary to actual and future courses. The launch of a collaboration between schools and companies will allow the creation of new initiatives, but also an evenutual enlargemnet of the project results (parametrs, stages).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 285102,92 Eur

Project Coordinator

FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO SUI TRASPORTI E LA LOGISTICA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• CENTRO DE INNOVACION PARA LA FORMACION PROFESIONAL DE ARAGON
• Centro Padano Interscambio Merci S.p.A.
• ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DE LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE DANSLES TRANSPORTS
• UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
• POLIEDRA SOC. COOP.
• GRUB SOLUTIONS S.L.