The main purpose of the project is to identify skill gaps in the construction sector in order to create curricula. Project consortia started in very first project month with an overview of existing data in knowledge source activities. The desk studies results confirmed that skill gaps existed in various fields, from very technical and managerial to work culture for qualifications on 4th EQF level. Ranging from Green skills, Literacy & Numeracy, Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), ICT, Social skills and Valuable vanishing skills; id. 6 skills gap fields. All PP confirmed by internal questionnaire that those on EU level identified sectoral skill gaps fields correspond also to national sectoral missing skills fields. Status report on findings of skill gaps covered also analysis of construction sectors, comparison of their VET systems and presented the overview of national sectoral qualifications on 4th EQF level in all participating countries. Project SKILLCO consortia further looked at the identified and selected skills gaps and analyse them via project detailed company interviews. Final and obviously most comprehensive preparation type activities linked to desk and field researchfindings were our terrain activities, through which we produced quite some supporting learning material, such as different photos and video clips related to 4 identified missing sectoral skills and 3 vanishing valuable skills. This anew produced material is meant to be integrated in the new free mobile app (for Android and IPhone), since SKILLCO aims at developing digitals skills and is committed to promotion of new pedagogic learning pathway: “DELIVERING DIGITALLY” (anytime, everywhere, for everybody, free) and following concept learning via “PEDAGOGIC GAMIFICATION”. Mobile devices are rapidly becoming the new medium of education life, especially for young people. By developing apps and offering within project created outcomes and contents we are addressing also digitals skills among project target groups. Work following was creation of 4 curriculum learning units (for pupils/students) and training courses (for adults) for identified missing sectoral (technical) skills. In addition, preparation of learning materials started immediately after the 4 learning units content were set. Apart from production work finished in WP2, id. creation of supporting learning materials, All materials created have to follow EQAVET and be in line with ECVET principle and confirmedby ECVET experts to assure quality and adoptability across Europe. Created materials will be tested during the pilot phase – WP4, beginning with autumn 2018 (school year start!).
Construction companies in EU are facing difficulties due to skilled labour shortage and the main reasons for this are out-of-date and/or inflexible VET systems.The project Skills Sector Alliances for Transfer of Knowledge and Skills of VET Workforce in Construction – SKILLCO was a 39-project-months international project for addressing skills gaps in the construction industry in EU in an innovative way. Its consortium of 8 project partners involved social partner organisations and VET providers from Germany, Hungary and Slovenia, as well as FIEC (the EU umbrella organisation for employers in the construction industry). The project website: www.skillco.euSectoral skills issues addressed:1.MAIN FOCUS: Vocational skills: greens skills, OSH, literacy, numeracy related to 4th EQF construction profiles, using a practical example (the SKILLCO House) learning units and learning material have been developed for the four identified and selected key skill gaps, namely:a.Literacy (Plan reading and time scheduling of the SKILLCO House)b.Numerical literacy (Construction cost calculations for the SKILLCO House)c.Occupational health and safety - OSH (Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders for construction workers)d.Green skills (Reuse and recycling of construction and demolition waste from buildings and their proper handling on the example of the SKILLCO House).2.PARTIAL FOCUS: Digitals skills (related to our newly developed, publicly available mobile app - SKILLgAPP) use and specific IT programmes/tools in literacy and numeracy modules)3.PARTIAL FOCUS: Vanishing (traditional) craft skills (typical for participating regions), We have also identified a few vanishing construction skills while working on the ground in the three countries. We have agreed to select two such skills that are common in all the participating countries and which we believe are valuable and deserve to be documented and remembered, especially in the light of the emerging professional needs for green skills. These are:a.Building a thatched roof (traditional skill common in Hungary and neighbouring countries)b.Making a wooden connection without metal screws or nails (to be able to build a farm structure, hayrack, in Slovenia and to build Traditional old German houses with timber framing).THE KEY PROJECT OUTPUT:Our mobile application SKILLgAPP is designed as an open source, a free mobile application, available for Android and Apple phones. It is a publicly available online educational resource and a digital learning platform for teachers and learners, with the OER feature. We followed that concept recommended by OECD and many other EU organisations. Instructions for using SKILLgAPP are available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPxUJAMR4HYMain results: 1.MAIN FOCUS ON SKILLS: The learning materials developed, divided into 2 modules: Module A (longer duration) for the common curriculum learning units for pupils/trainees and Module B (shorter duration) for the training course for construction workers/employees. In this way both VET students and already employed workers will benefit from the results. This will also foster trainee/worker mobility since these learning units and material can be incorporated/adapted on the EU level (Germany presenting the western EU countries and Hungary presenting the eastern part of EU).2.PARTIAL FOCUS ON SKILLS: Like the identified skill gaps the two vanishing skills have been described in detail and for each of them photographs, a video and a curriculum learning unit have also been made.