The project aims to support national and regional rules on the skills recognizing according to the ECTVET system. The partnerships aims to develop innovation on method of recognizing skills and management in the port and logistics field. The implementation proposal is focused on the skills and competences of the professionals in the sector. At this aim, 3 level of professionals (managerial, intermediate, operative) will be detected, studied and analyzed by the partners (Universities and Research centers). The profiles are: Terminal port Manager: is a managerial profiles. He/she organizes the port terminal, has extensive expertise in logistics and business management, optimizes the operation of the terminal through the functions of planning and using personnel management (reporting directly to the terminal or dependent on utility companies) Check the commercial process, liaising with clients, sighting possible new business relationships and paying particular attention to the supervision of the maintenance of standards of service provided; Planning supervisor: it’s an intermediate level. The activity of the ship planner is the planning of the activities of loading - unloading of the ship, considering the types and characteristics of the goods, ensuring the safety of the ship in terms of stability and chassis, optimizing the available space and minimizing the time load. He analyzes the type of goods to be loaded, which is known quantities, weights and types; Driver articulated vehicles (general cargo: fork lift, reach stacker, bobcat, wigger): it's a professional responsible for loading/unloading, transportation, storage and storage of containers and various goods, in port terminals and warehouses connected to them. Work in modern marine terminal strongly industrialized, in which the handling of goods and the containers takes place in a programmed manner and using means of high complexity. This figure uses radio communication systems and computing devices for use machinery type reach stacker for handling on the ramp leading heavy vehicles for which it is required to have special license. They have been selected because: - they are common to every port and essential for the overall port activities - they are tranferrable - they have many possibilities to be adopted in other sectors because they have lots of units needed also in other profiles, and can be implemented by short and simply training paths - they are always upgrading in line with the technical progresses. Applying them ECVET principles and technical specifications (EU Rec. 2009/C 155/02), the project is aimed to define and apply operational and transferable methods and guidelines to design qualification in units of learning outcomes with allocation of ECVET points; test units of learning outcomes based qualification with associated procedures for assessment, transfer, validation and accumulation of learning outcomes achieved in formal, informal and non formal contexts; design and test quality standards to apply ECVET to the qualification; design VET programs with flexible devices for validation, transfer and recognition of learning outcomes; develop concepts based on learning outcomes approach to combine ECVET and ECTS and enhance their compatibility. The proposed piloting will be discussed and implemented by the contributions of stakeholders of the country partner, coming from the labour market, policy makers and VET systems, institutions, involving workers. In this process will be signed the related agreements. The piloting will be carried on 3 professionals profiles and will be tested on workers of country partner involved in the piloting: (IT, ES, NL) which at the end of the project will have the skills recognized according to ECVET.
Project aims were to support national and regional rules on skills recognition according to ECVET system as following: it easier for people to get validation and recognition of work-related skills and knowledge acquired in different countries;increase the employability of VET graduates and the confidence of employers in specific skills and knowledge in VET qualifications.The aims were to develop a method of recognizing core skills in the port and logistics fields. VETPORT focused on the professional figures:Terminal Manager- Planner/ Supervisor-Drivers.These roles have been selected because they are essential for port activities. The roles are transferrable from port to port and can be adopted in other sectors.The Consortium was composed by six members:Livorno Port Authority- Vocational Training Centre manages training, certification and accreditation system for port community;Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo technical assistance EU projects;STC-GROUP Rotterdam provides training for the shipping, transport & logistics, port-bound;Valenciaport Foundation is a research training center for logistics-ports community;NMCI-CIT is specialised on training of maritime professionals;CFLI provides training, re-qualification of workers in LOGISTICS.The main activities of VETPORT were:Studies and Resources on the three port common professional profiles.It was compared qualification framework and occupational standards, designed common grounds and defined the main work processes for each profile. ECVET definition of skills, knowledge and competences has been used to describe the core abilities to carry out the work processes. This has resulted in groupings of abilities connected to actual work processes, reflecting the complexity level of occupational standards.The result was the definition of pilot transnational occupational profiles to which all partners have contributed. Pilot profiles, linked to ECVET standard, have been detailed to become training standards, identifying LO and including breakdown in Units corresponding to ECVET indicative points. A master training programme was designed for the profiles.Programmes were tested during the training mobility week. A Technical English training program was included for port handling vehicle.It was signed the MOU which contains the main features according to the ECVET standards and indications on how the learning outcomes related to the one-week mobility would be assessed and validated.A communication plan was provided, for the dissemination and valorisation of project deliverables. Website was done in IT/EN and linked to partners' websites as well as a social networks page. A video documentary was provide to explain the activities developed.It was designed a guidelines, to propose, at local, national and EU level, a mutually recognizable framework on training of port workers in view of extending this system to all port professions.Contribute to make training mobility an important and recognized tool for professional growth both in job placement training and as an experience exchange for those who are already employed. The method followed has been based on the” competency-based training and minimal training requirement”.79 workers from partner ports were involved visiting terminals in ports of Cork, Livorno, Rotterdam and Valencia. 9 training mobility weeks were carried out between November 2016-April 2017. 18 Drivers, 29 planners and 32 port terminal managers took part in training weeks, visiting container,multipurpose,ro-ro partner ports. 30 terminals were involved in sending & receiving workers,contributed to designing the training week program.5 transnational meetings were carried out:A kick off meeting in Livorno 2015; In 2015 two SC were done in Valencia;In 2016 two meetings were organized in Rotterdam and in Venice;In 2017 the SC met up in Valencia and Cork. The results achieved by the partnership were: Definition of based core competences to be improved during the one-week mobility and the minimal training program required to be assessed in term of ECVET for the profiles and recognised by the partnership embedded into ECVET standard;Design a Technical English training program for port handling vehicle for the acquisition of based competences; Collect VET best practices of the professional training program. Training week had a major impact both on workers and employers.Participants stressed the value of the program in terms of topics discussed and improved skills and knowledge;increased participation in mobility as opportunities for a professional growth.Sustainability to the project aims is the consolidation of the network and its enlargement with the organisms that took part in VetPort Continue working on share methodologies for designing “ competency based training and minimal training required” to validate and certify for professional skills in the port sector in view of getting equivalent professional qualifications recognized at local, regional and EU level.