The project want to achieve the following: 1. To develop and implement a new training methodology that will help adult personnel and migrants to get jobs in the manufacturing industries. 2. To implement work-based learning techniques in the training methodology so that the students will follow real industry examples in their training and through this build not only skills but also are able to build competence. 3. In order to overcome barriers in the education, due to long absence from formal education, the project will implement a Welding Simulator tool, IQSIM (developed through a LdV project in 2008-2010), in order to overcome shortcomings in their theoretical knowledge. This simulator will help the students, together with the appropriate tasks, to easily sove technical problems without needing to know the mathematics and the metallurgy in the materials, and in this way get easier access to problem solving issues. 4. Create an education methods that also will enable migrants to get an easier and quicker access to the European job market. 5. To start to specify a new welding simulator that also will take into consideration the environmental issues, the greening issues and allow the students to simulate these problems as well.
The motivation for applying for this project is based on the needs in the fabrication industry for a workforce with knowledge and competence within the welding sector. An increasing lack of qualified personell all over Europe has created a recruitment problem for this industry which will increate as the industry is moving towards Industry 4.0 technologies. The need for re-skilling and up-skilling of personnel is at the same time increasing, which means that personnel with long absence from the education sector will need to get additional training. The increasing number of migrants into Europe, or within Europe , needs to get proper training alternatives to the academic pathway. The IQSIM2 project will simplify the needs for these groups by addressing a new way of both presenting teaching alternatives for difficult theories by implementing "What -if" type simulator for solving problems related to mathematics and material science as well as welding simulators for education and training of welding skills in practical welding. The new training methodology that will be developed through the project will open a new educational route for migrants as well as adult personnel needing re-skilling and up-skilling of their current knowledge.