RenovUp project results from an observation made by professionals in the construction industry: the current training facilities for site managers and team leaders do not take sufficient account of the specificities related to the renovation of buildings and its various constraints. There is a real need, confirmed by companies and professional federations in the partner countries, to reorient them in terms of objectives, content and methods of learning, in order to enable the targeted learners to strengthen their capacity to better understand the renovation as a whole, to foresee and plan the related specific interventions, to better communicate and convince in complex situations on these sites. In order to achieve this objective of professionalization the targeted audiences in the countries of the partnership first, then beyond, 5 partners from 5 countries have come together to design a model of repository to meet the evolutions of these two functions, declinable in national schemes, consistent with the priorities, contexts and resources specific to each partner country. This project brings together experienced and complementary partners in the design and implementation of professionalization schemes for managers, technicians and construction workers: 3 national and regional networks of vocational training (initial and continuing) in the building trades in France (CCCA-BTP), Italy (Formedil) and Spain (FLC Asturias), a recognised technological and pedagogical research organisation in Poland (Lukasiewicz ITE Network) and in Greece, a professional federation of the sector, also advisory body (Pedmede). A systemic approach, based on cooperation with associated actors (national, regional and local) involved in the fields of guidance, vocational training and recognition of learning outcomes (formal and informal), will be implemented. This cooperation will enable the following projects to be carried out for site managers and team leaders of building renovation projects: • A transnational model for positioning, coaching and professionalization, mainly based on training in working situations in the company, supplemented by training modules in training centres, as well as by e-learning. • Transnational schemes for: o The evaluation and recognition of learning outcomes with Open Badges o The training of teachers, trainers and masters/tutors preparing for the accompaniment and training of the targeted audiences. • Implementation of a transnational strategy for the positioning, support and professionalization of targeted audiences. This three-year project includes conceptualization, implementation, in situ experimentation and evaluation of results. Ongoing and final productions will be supervised by National Expert Groups (NAG) and subject to an ongoing evaluation. 6 biannual transnational seminars will have to validate them, to ratify any adaptations if necessary and to promote the dynamic of the communication and dissemination of the results. RenovUp will allow the evolution of the design of professional development of targeted audiences, more individualized and more based on the formative exploitation of the real work situations of the learners. The partners also want the skills acquired to be clearly identifiable, and their recognition and validation to be effective. With 3 well-identified impacts, declinable at national levels, this project will meet the expectations of SMSE in terms of the skills development of the targeted audiences: • Real and measurable strengthening of education and professional partnerships established locally, regionally, nationally and at transnational level to meet the expectations of the enterprises concerned in a sustainable and satisfactory manner (especially SME) in terms of their site manager and team leader skills in building renovation • Better integration of work situations training into individual professionalisation projects, creating lasting links between in-company training, vocational schools/training centres and e-learning, • Systematic integration of environmental and climate objectives, as well as constantly evolving OSH standards, into the management of work sites and teams on the work sites concerned.
The partners wanted to move the training of building renovation site supervisors and team leaders towards more support and individualisation, based on the formative use of work situations experienced by these groups. In implementing this project, the partners wanted above all to: • Really and measurably strengthen educational and professional partnerships at local, regional, national and transnational level, in order to respond in a concrete and sustainable way to the expectations of the companies concerned in terms of the skills (mainly managerial skills) of their site managers and renovation team leaders; • Better integrate work situations specific to renovation into vocational support and into individual professionalisation schemes, forging lasting links between training in companies and in training centres; • Systematically take into account environmental and climate objectives, occupational health and safety standards (European and national), as well as organisational and technological requirements in the management of renovation sites and teams.
RenovUp was born out of an observation by professionals in the construction sector that the training schemes available in the partnership countries for site managers and team leaders did not take sufficient account of the specific features of building renovation. In addition, they were not sufficiently focused on the observation and analysis of work situations specific to renovation. There was a real need to reorientate the training programmes in terms of objectives, content and learning methods, so as to enable the target learners to improve their ability to better understand renovation as a whole, to anticipate and plan the specific interventions involved, to better communicate and convince in complex situations on these sites, while taking into account new safety and environmental protection standards, as well as technological and organisational advances. The RenovUp project, through its preliminary studies and analyses, as well as its pragmatic productions, carried out in close collaboration with training centres and companies, has met these needs.