BACKGROUNDPaintingSkillsAcademy (PSA) is based on needs for the painting trade:1) VET must become more attractive to young people, more young people need to be won for crafts.2) Lack of knowledge, skills and competences inevitably lead to poor processing of orders and to economic damage.3) VET in the European context is underdeveloped, however, quality or flawless execution is important in all countries. PSA develops products for the painting trade and shows how to use them in other sectors.OBJECTIVESThe PaintingSkillsAcademy creates a structure for basic and further training for the European painting trade, which uses jointly defined qualification standards and sample curricula as a basis and makes target group-specific offers via the partners involved in the Academy. The Academy is implemented under the aegis of the European umbrella organization UNIEP.IMPLEMENTATIONThe path to the academy goes through the description of quality standards and units of learning outcomes for the painting trade at levels 1-6 of the European Qualifications Framework, design of curricula that make a statement on HOW the learning outcomes described above can be acquired, recognition of prior learning and competence assessment mechanisms, the development of a system of target-group specific training offers until a business case and roadmap for the operation after the funding.RESULTS- “Real” comparability of the competencies required and the skills that can be acquired in the individual countries of the project partner countries- No European lowest common denominator, but real transparency- Detailed documents from WP3 and WP4 enable the acquisition of skills that are precisely tailored to the job market- Course system (time and place independence)- Foundation of a self-sustaining academy for the painting trade on a European level
PSA was built as a basis/structure for consistent VET at all relevant EQF levels, supported by key sector stakeholders. It offers a methodical-didactic and structural-organizational overall concept for a continuous qualification career in the painting trade (both vertically from level 1-6 of the EQF and horizontally with cross-border Europe-wide mobility) and further integrates previous initiatives into a coherent overall structure.
The PaintingSkillsAcademy (PSA) as an alliance for the European painting trade provides solutions for the following problems, which are also relevant for many other trades: Making vocational training more attractive for young people in order to attract more young people to the trade, reducing defects and economic damage that occurs as a result of the lack of knowledge, skills and com-petence of craftsmen, and establishing cross-border and pan-European transparency.
<< Background >> The PaintingSkillsAcademy (PSA) as an alliance for the European painting trade provides solutions for the following problems, which are also relevant for many other trades: Making vocational training more attractive for young people in order to attract more young people to the trade, reducing defects and economic damage that occurs as a result of the lack of knowledge, skills and com-petence of craftsmen, and establishing cross-border and pan-European transparency. << Objectives >> PSA was built as a basis/structure for consistent VET at all relevant EQF levels, supported by key sector stakeholders. It offers a methodical-didactic and structural-organizational overall concept for a continuous qualification career in the painting trade (both vertically from level 1-6 of the EQF and horizontally with cross-border Europe-wide mobility) and further integrates previous initiatives into a coherent overall structure. << Implementation >> A complete qualification portfolio for the painting trade with quality standards and units of learning out-comes at EQF levels 1 to 6 was developed, and curricula were derived. An extensive set of workshops and courses can be found in a PSA catalog. Innovative solutions using Virtual Reality (VR) and Argumented Reality (AR) were tested. Procedures and instruments for the assessment, recognition and validation were elaborated. The PaintingSkillsAcademy has created a model of sectoral recognition. << Results >> There are criteria that are accepted by all PSA training providers and used in the implementation. In this sense, PSA content and partners are PSA-labelled/-approved and signal a uniform level of quality to the outside world.The PSA claims the following unique selling points (USP):1) PSA quality standards2) Training offers with a PSA label/quality seal3) Sectoral recognition and certificates4) Network of PSA partners committed to quality standards