CONTEXT The international trade and logistics sectors create more than 20 million jobs in European Union countries (source EUROSTAT). Like other sectors, their growth, closely linked to globalisation and the interdependence of economies, as well as to ever-increasing competition, is also being accompanied by an acceleration of technological change, environmental challenges and security and safety requirements. This fast-moving trend is impacting the nature and scope of operators' and, therefore student’s skills. Most of these students benefit from provisions allowing them to carry out learning mobility in another country. The validation of learning outcomes achieved during mobility periods still rises problems, despite the progress made at European level and the implementation of many instruments (Erasmus charter, ECTS, ECVET, CEC, Europass etc.). It is therefore necessary to provide concerted and operational responses to this problem. The NETINVET network, which brings together more than one hundred training establishments from 13 countries in the two sectors, is constantly reflecting on these issues and is the bearer of the ESITL project. TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS INVOLVED ESITL covers EQF level 5 qualifications for the Transport Manager (Transport and Logistics sector) and Import-Export Commercial Assistant (International Trade sector) trade SRATEGIC AIMS ESITL aims to design: - shared references in the form of job profiles and skills registers likely to evolve regarding the requirements induced by technological, competitive and organizational changes in the trades; - taking into account environmental issues in the analysis of trades and their transcription in shared references; - operational solutions to organize quality mobility actions and facilitate the recognition of the achievements of students who benefit from mobility with the use of European tools (ECTS for higher education, ECVET for professional training) . BENEFICIARIES - Sectors, who are users of skills and confronted with economic and environmental challenges; - Students and apprentices, direct individual beneficiaries of mobility - Training operators, responsible for designing training courses including mobility; - Competent authorities in the areas of learning paths and qualifications. PROJECT LEADER NETINVET, created in 2011, is a European network of higher education and vocational training establishments and sectoral professional associations in charge of training policy in the two sectors concerned. The network has a scientific committee on which competent authorities and school heads are represented. PARTNERSHIP ESITL associates alongside NETINVET, three strategic stakeholders in training development and implementation (the ESITL triad) from four countries (Germany, Spain, France, Portugal): education and training providers, sectors and competent authorities (as associated partners). - Four education and trainingproviders. - Two higher education schools holding the ERASMUS + charter (Lycée Quinet-FR, IVic-SP) - Two vocational training providers (CECOA-PT, KS1-DE). - Sectors - International trade: CGI-FR, CCP-PT - Transport-logistics: AFT-FR, ASETRANS-SP - Competent authorities (associated partners in the ESITL scientific committee - Ministry of National Education (FR), - Institut Català de les Qualificacions Professionals, Generalitat de Catalunya ICQP (SP), - Agência Nacional para a Qualificação e o Ensino Profissional, ANQEP (PT), - Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, BIBB (DE) METHODOLOGY The ESITL methodology consists of i) updating the two trades profiles, ii) designing a skills register characteristic of each of the trades (shared references), iii) developing recommendations for the use of shared references. The instruments designed within the framework of ESITL will be the subject of a dissemination action and will be accessible to all operators, free of rights, on the Website WWW.NETINVET.EU. DELIVERABLES - Two job profiles designed for the 2020-2030 period, with particular emphasis on environmental aspects; - Two lists of skills, characteristics of each of the trades and of each of the qualifications, structured in blocks of skills; - Five tools for training operators, sectors and competent authorities (scenarios and recommendations for the design of training modules, learning assessment process, examples of mobility paths). - One set of supporting documents for the dissemination events TIMETABLE - Duration: 26 months - From 01/09/2020 to 31/10/2022 - Six transnational meetings, four dissemination events.
The objective of the project is to obtain, for the professions of transport manager and import-export sales assistant at level 5 of the European Qualifications Framework, a series of reference documents allowing first of all the member schools of the NETINVET network, and their professional partners to work on updated and sustainable data within 10 years, namely: - professional standards composed of job descriptions and corresponding skills directories, usable by training centers as well as by human resources managers of employers in international trade and transport/logistics; - pedagogical resources for teachers, trainers and tutors in charge of mobility, so as to facilitate dialogue and the establishment of training agreements on a transparent basis. The documents produced are intended as the result of the implementation of methodologies that are perfectly transferable to other sectors and professional qualification levels.
The European NETINVET network develops cooperation between training institutions and their professional partners in order to promote quality mobility and thus develop a common culture of preparation for the professions of transport manager and import-export sales assistant leading to a common professional culture facilitating exchanges and future mobility of employed people. This shared culture is based on the common definition of the professions concerned and the skills needed to perform them, on shared references in terms of training modules and assessment practice and on pedagogical recommendations and examples for the preparation and conduct of mobility. The NETINVET network already had job definitions and competency frameworks. But these documents were designed in the years 2008-2011. It was necessary to update and restructure these documents in order to take account of changes in contexts and professional practices and to supplement them with pedagogical documents in order to facilitate the task of trainers, particularly in preparing and conducting the mobility of learners.