The big European question that unites all project partners is the question of securing the growing demand for skilled labor in the construction industry. How can we tackle this problem together and what can we do together? The priority here is the development of a long-term functioning network with partners from all relevant areas, such as vocational training institutions, chambers of crafts and construction companies. The key question is not only the promotion of Lifelong Learning by improving the quality of educational services and the effectiveness of mobility experiences, but also increasing the attractiveness of training occupations in the construction industry. How can we make these jobs attractive to young people in the age of digitization? The aim of this partnership is to find joint solutions that add value to all project partners and lead to joint positive results in further projects. The result is to analyze relevant and current qualification topics in order to process them in a follow-up project. In a partnership with several European countries, it is necessary to network in a first small step and to agree on common goals, in order to realize them later in a further project. The project activities are documented by the lead partner, who presents and publishes the project on his homepage. Each project partner will be linked to this project page. The target groups are first of all the teaching and training staff of vocational schools in Europe. Since the securing of experts in the Construction Industry is not only a problem for the schools, but also for the companies, who are seeking for skilled workers, the other target group are the construction companies in bulding construction, civil engineering and extensional construction. Every partner will involve 3 participants. One is the national coordinator, the second one is the respective teacher/trainer, who is responsible for implementing network ideas for follow-up projects. The third person is the key person/contact person, who is taking care of contact between the project partners and the contacts to the national companies and experts, who will be involved during the network meeting at the respective country.The participants, asides the project partners, will be experts, who will be invited to the national meetings in every partner country. The experts will be construction and VET experts ,i.e. chamber of commerce, chamber of crafts, associations, construction companies). For every meeting, there will be at least 5 experts and representatives invited. When possible, the partners will also visit the experts in their companies or sites during the transnational project meetings in the different countries. The qualification topics, that were submitted during the project, will become integrated into the practice of the partner organizations. These results will be visible on the webpages of the partner organizations and will be published in the local newspaper during the end of the project. The results will also be available on the webpage "www.erasmusplus.com/en/ dissemination". During the project duration, the partners will develop new project ideas for follow-up projects with specific output, in order to develop further EU-usable qualification modules on the basis of the recorded demands and to advance digitalization in the construction industry. With the help of the dissemination results, the partners will have a starting point for creating new projects. Some construction companies may inlude private funding for the implementation of some ideas, that were created thanks to the networking project.
The big European question that unites all project partners is not only the question of securing the growing demand for skilled labor in the construction industry, but also increasing the attractiveness of training occupations in the construction industry in the age of digitization. The aim of this partnership was to find joint solutions that add value to all project partners and lead to joint positive results in further projects. In this project the partners have created an international network in order to analyze relevant and current problems that affect the lack of skilled workers in the construction industry and find possible solutions in order to process them in a follow-up project. The partnership consists of 8 participating organizations from 6 countries (Germany, Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia). The partners were mostly vocational schools from each country. The partnership also includes the Construction Chamber of Greater Poland and the german/romanian advisory institution for Romania, MancomCentru. The target groups were the teaching and training staff of vocational schools in Europe, the construction companies, who are seeking for skilled workers and the students of the vocational schools, since they are the future experts for the construction industry. The main tasks for the partnership were: -the establishing of a long-term european network within the EU -analyzing relevant and current problems that affect the lack of skilled workers in the construction industry in each country -analyzing the relevance of digitalization in the vocational education -organizing a Transnational Project Meeting in each country in order to present the situation, the results and possible solutions to the main questions of the project. -creating an idea for a follow-up project, that will continue on the work in this partnership and create outputs, that can be used in Europe -disseminating the results in every country Every partner has involved 3 participants as -the national coordinator -the respective teacher/trainer, who is responsible for implementing network ideas for follow-up projects. -the key person/contact person, who is taking care of contact between the project partners and the contacts to the national companies and experts, who will be involved during the network meeting at the respective country. The participants, asides the project partners, were experts from the construction sector and the VET sector, who have been integrated into the network and also invited to the Transnational Project Meetings in every partner country. The partners have also integrated the students of the participant's schools in order to find out, what would make vocational training in construction more attractive to young people. The results from the surveys and the Transnational Project meetings, that were submitted during the project, have become integrated into the practice of the partner organizations and submitted on the webpages of the partner organizations. The results have also been made available on the Erasmus+ Project Results platform. During the project duration, the partners have developed a new project idea for a follow-up projects with specific output, in order to develop further EU-usable qualification modules on the basis of the recorded demands and to advance digitalization in the construction industry. With the help of the dissemination results, the partners will have a starting point for creating new projects. Some construction companies may inlude private funding for the implementation of some ideas, that were created thanks to the networking project. The partners have established a long-term european network within the EU, that concentrates on cooperating with organizations from the vocational education in the construction sector such as schools, companies, chambers and associations. Thanks to the network, following future projects have been born: -new Erasmus+ KA2 project --> follow-up project -new Erasmus+ KA1 project Jelgava/BFW -new Erasmus+ KA1 project Zilina/BFW -new Erasmus+ KA1 project VelikoTurnovo/BFW -new Erasmus+ KA1 project Poznan/Zilina -Integration of Maruna Terchova into existing KA1 project with Zilina/BFW -cooperation with FAKRO and vocational schools -Integration of RERE Grupa into international vocational education projects (Jelgava/BFW/Poznan) -Integration of Main Association of German Construction Industry and constructions chambers from other countries