Progressive digitalization in all areas of life and work is also taking place in the construction industry. What is often described under the keyword "Industry 4.0" is called BIM (Building Information Modelling) in the construction sector. It covers the entire life cycle of a building from the idea to dismantling. In order to assert oneself on international labour markets, a high level of professional competence and other key skills such as language skills, teamwork and experience abroad are required. The idea of young people working together to modernise a house for other young people in the European Voluntary Service (EVS) is another strong driving force. These three motives led to the current project. A central goal of the project is to get to know modern, digital working methods and to apply them in practice. The BIM method is a digital model-based approach used in the construction industry to plan, present, calculate, implement, manage and possibly dismantle a project. To achieve the above-mentioned goal, this method is suitable for learning and applying it to a specific task in a learning outcome-oriented approach. Various teaching and learning methods are used. Another goal is to provide experience in international cooperation. This promotes knowledge transfer and enhances the professional competence of those involved. The project work takes place both virtually with the possibilities of IKT and in practice in international teams. This promotes social and personal skills. In order to move and prove yourself safely in an international working environment, language skills are of outstanding importance. This project offers optimal conditions to learn profession-specific technical terms quickly and lastingly and to summarize them in a digital dictionary. This dictionary will be multimedia (photo, video, audio, text), multilingual (English and the languages of the participating schools) and interactive (terms will be suggested by the learners and included in the vocabulary). Learning and applying digital photography, image processing and design is another goal of the project. The goals set are achieved by modernizing a house. The visible and very concrete results of the collective efforts represent a high level of motivation for all participants. Four schools from Austria, Romania, Slovenia and Germany are involved in the project. What all schools have in common is that they are active in the construction sector. They contribute to the success of the project through various project focuses that complement each other. The Austrian school HTL from Pinkafeld already has experience with the BIM method and will pass it on to the other participants. In addition, it will deal with the finishing craft and the water/sewage installation. The Romanian school CAROL_I from Sibiu is responsible for the gas and heating technology as well as the wood section (windows/doors/floors). The Slovenian school centre SCC from Celje will carry out screed and concrete work as well as electrical installations. The Heinrich Wieland School in Pforzheim will take over project management, house security and information technology as well as activities in the fields of languages, history and documentation. The planned 24-month schedule includes seven mobilities between which transnational activities in virtual space take place in international teams. Four of the planned mobilities serve the exchange of knowledge, planning, preparation and theoretical finding of solutions, while three mobilities focus on practical implementation. The project will be implemented on the basis of the attached organisational matrix and timetable (see appendix). Participants can learn from each other in international teams. The skills of one's own profession are to be enhanced and insights into complementary professions in the building trade are to be made possible. The results of the planned project activities are as follows: increased skills in the use of the BIM method and improved language skills enable better access to the labour market, to-do manual on the use of the BIM method serves as an example of good practice for further projects and enables sustainability and knowledge transfer to be ensured, BIM model of the actual and target condition of the building is a planning basis for the individual trade activities in the future, the digital technical dictionary can be individually developed further, photo documentation describes the course of the project, historical documentation rounds out the project, inhabitable house for volunteers of the EVS.
This project originates from the idea of modernising an old, run-down house by young vocational students in such a way that young people from all over Europe have a meeting place in this newly renovated house through the EVS (European Voluntary Service), now called the "European Solidarity Corps", in which they can contribute to a local community and intensively get to know a piece of Europe through this task. The project work is intended to deepen the skills and abilities of the trainees' own profession, but also to enable them to become familiar with the skills and abilities of other trades. In addition to professional competence, other important competences (social, team and personal competence) are promoted, which enable the young people to develop into valuable members of our European society, to improve themselves and to be active for others. Overall, general competencies in trade are promoted in this way. In this concept of the project, different objectives were pursued, all of which contribute to the formation of a European society of solidarity. The main objective was to modernise an old house, save it from decay and ultimately make it usable for European youth. The second goal was to learn from each other on the path of advancing digitalisation, to gain insight into BIM technology (Building Information Modelling) and to use it at the level of a vocational school. Another goal was to present documentation of the project in its various aspects in the form of a photo book. This not only promoted the use of modern methods of media technology, but also created an easy-to-use and lasting documentation. A sense for the partner's language and the de facto EU language, English, was made possible through the creation of a multimedia technical dictionary. The final objective was to investigate, through a survey of contemporary witnesses, why many buildings in the cultural region of Transylvania/Siebenbürgen have fallen into disrepair. To achieve these goals, seven AULs were designated. Within this framework, the school partners met, planned the project, divided up the work and implemented it practically. Three AUL's were planned for implementation, two of which were carried out according to plan while the last one could only be carried out by one partner due to the corona pandemic. CAD-supported plans were drawn up, the entire living space was redesigned, the house was brought up to modern living standards and partially handed over for use. Project results include: the house, which was modernised to approx. 80% due to corona, which is 100% completed in the caretaker's flat area and already inhabited, a photo book that highlights the project through media, a digital dictionary created by pupils, a documentation on the introduction to BIM, as well as a contemporary witness report. The long-term benefits are seen by the partners mainly in the use of the "volunteer house" by European youths who develop contact among themselves, to expand their skills and abilities and to work for the benefit of a local community. The European volunteers will take these experiences back to their countries of origin and thus contribute to the growing sense of common membership of the European Union.