WATT ELSE relies on an action carried out since 2011 in the Nord Franche-Comté region which special focus on the jobs in the energy field of activity. This aims at sensitizing a large public to the scientific, technical and industrial culture. Pupils and students are pleased to discover energy jobs throughout the know-how of local entreprises and regional dynamism. Teachers, trainers and advisors participate in these animations and visit laboratories or firms. WATT ELSE is a consortium of energy stakeholders (firms, training organizations, universities, public authorities). But, beyond this communication aspect, it stresses rather more on the will to accompagny the structuring of this economic stream, par exchanging practices, whose challenges lays in the national and European priorities “Developing partnerships aimed at promoting work-based learning in all its forms”, “Supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences” or “Enhancing access to training and qualifications for all”. This expertise tends to be transferred, on other territories in order to better know the various jobs in the energy field as regards with the national and European orientations before 2030. In terms of objectives are results, WATT ELSE aims at various target groups : - firms so as to be accompanied and equipped for anticipating job mutations, be actor of local development or in a Social Responsibility process, attract talents in search for professional ang geographical mobility and build links with firms, universities, local authorities throughout Europe taking into account current jobs and trends for future ones. - public authorities to better know the economic employment area and its stakeholders (ecosystem) in terms of employment and training paths and implement sustainable policies to encourage strategies for the economic and local social development - training organizations and universities to evolve training paths to make them to be adapted to the needs of the firms, encourage lifelong learning process to help employees acquire new competences, recognize inside professional paths within firms as best practices and valorize the jobs and get to know them to attract young people - collaborators from the partners to appropriate the methodology of European project management acquiring transversal competences (intercultural, linguistic,..) and technical competences so as to become ambassadors of the evolution of these jobs to better guide the professional paths of potential beneficiaries. - end users involved in guidance or professionnal insertion paths to foster their employability and guide them towards these future jobs and by this way encouraging mobility towards these new European competences. To fulfil these objectives WATT ELSE will coordinate : - 8 transnational meetings to foster exchange of practices in parallel with 8 local animations on the future of energy at local or regional level. - a 3 days training activity (presenting jobs, visiting firms workshop,…) for advisors, trainers, teachers,… who will become ambassadors among beneficiaries to guide them up to these future jobs and encourage geographical and professional mobility - 2 methodological and progressive activities involving each of the actors, one in the frame of competences cartography in relation with training programs and its adaptation, the second one to structure the local networks similar to the initial one in France. All these activities will be mastered by a piloting committee and MIFE as a coordinator. Each of the 12 partners from Romania, Slovakia, Italy, Spain, Greece, Sweden and Reunion island, will lead an activity according to their of expertise linked to the workpackages. They are complementary and contributes to enlighten economic, social, pedagogic and technical challenges. The dissemination, communication, management activities will be organised transversally throughout the implementation of the project as they will be validated from the beginning and formalised in some signed strategic commitments by each of the partners. Plus, an internal and external evaluation will emphasize the added value of this job undertaken. Finally, the impact of WATT ELSE will be measured thanks to qualitative and quantitative indicators in order to ensure the sustainability of this project and to plan the continuation of this collaboration ith a Erasmus= Project within the frame of a Strategic partnership “innovation”. Currently, WATT ELSE is an exchange of practices to know one another and build the basis for an European network in the energy field of activity.
The objectives were to sensitize all stakeholders on the stakes in the energy field. Partners from the WATT ELSE project were representatives of actors which play a major role in this awareness process whatever they are : Firms o To anticipate jobs mutation o To attract talents o To be actors of local development o To create links between European firms and universities Training Organizations and Universities o To adapt their curricula to the needs of firms o To discover the energy jobs and competences and attract youngest people o To be vectors of the diffusion of good professional practices in the firms For Public Authorities o To know their job area and the composition of his firms and learning pathway ecosystem o To set up public policies to support the dynamics of local human resources For collaborators of European partners o To disseminate best practices so as to sensitize to the energy job field of activity o To better know the job evolutions to better support job seekers As it was previsouly created in 2011, the objective was to build a consortium of actors at european level and we are pleased to know that some partners qualified this partnership as no longer a consortium but a community of energy actors.
WATT ELSE it is both - A consortium of actors, working together to implement a common strategy to sustain a dynamic regional field of activity. - An event which promotes the scientific, technical and industrial culture to a large public ; and makes it discover the jobs of the energy through the know-how of a local industry. This Erasmus+ WATT ELSE aimed at supporting the transition of local industrial energy, and beyond. It was an project of « exchange of good practices » within 9 partners from Italy, Romania, France, Sweden, Reunion Island, Greece, Spain and Slovakia in a particular context of big expectations of the society, concerning the production and the uses of energy in a context of the fit to 50 european strategy of deep mutations in the industrial production of energy, The stakes are to Assist an industrial energy branch mutating, in terms of human resources Update needs of recruitment and training path including for instance hydrogen expertise Spin off a method of territorial action and learning about European partners methods. The needs were to have this common conscience of the necessity to adapt the competences to the stakes in the field of energy next to technical, innovation or financial aspects.