The overall purpose of this project is to promote cooperation between all stakeholders in different parts the battery and electromobility value chain, to analyse what is happening in the sector related to skills agenda, and to develop a sectoral skills strategy and blueprint for sectoral stakeholders, including education and training in and for the sector.The Steering board oversees the work, evaluates, supports and if needed directs its development within the framework of the contract. ALBATTS Steering board is led by the ALBATTS partner ACEA and have influential and centrally placed members as EIT Innoenergy, EIT Raw Materials, EUROBAT, the Stuttgart region and the BATTERY 2030+ Research Roadmap project umbrella.The ALBATTS project works with two core and interdependent development processes. Three WPs (3,4,5) are focusing on “Sectoral Intelligence”, to find out what is happening in the whole battery value chain; stakeholders, drivers of change, technologies, attractiveness of the sector, global context, emerging skills, and competence and new job roles needs and offer.One WP, WP6 Education and Training, is continuously taking part of the sectoral intelligence results for analysis and planning of their work. This is done to address these emerging job roles and skills needs, identify gaps in present education offerings, formulate curricular items as learning objectives, produce or in other way address missing learning material. Besides, and to the support of these lines of action from the project work, there is also an ambitious and modern dissemination activity (WP2). The dissemination has two main strands - the sharing and shouting of activities, initiatives and results from the partnership, and the scan of related projects, initiatives or designed strategies and policies at national and European levels. These allow the creation of news, publications, and posts on the project website and media channels, to raise awareness from the e-mobility ecosystem inside and outside the partnership and to all relevant stakeholders. Dissemination is a collective effort which facilitates the promotion of results, related campaigns and organisation of events. The project develops mainly along the contract and work plan, although some adjustment to meeting plans and similar has been made due to the raging pandemic that has affected the work since March 2020. The project has reached out well with dissemination and networking activities and is today well placed and known in the context of other European organisations, projects and initiatives (concerning batteries and electromobility). The ALBATTS project has shown to be the only project which has on its main agenda to develop Vocational Education and Training (VET) for the value chain, while other projects mostly work with education as a part of their projects, and focuses on higher levels of education. ALBATTS is also a vital part of the recently formed ecology within the Pact for Skills. The value chain we are working with is developing and changing fast, both globally and in Europe.
The project's objectives were first to develop and continuously update sectoral skills intelligence for the sector, including new occupations, new skills needs, skills mismatches, trends in the relevant labour market, etc. On that basis, to define what was most needed to develop in education and to develop that: Job role definitions, skills descriptions, learning objectives, curricula, digital courses and modules, and so forth. An objective was also to create a Sectoral Skills Strategy.
The background of the ALBATTS project is the emerging battery- and electromobility value chain in Europe, which is a crucial element in EU climate- and transport policy. Europe had previously very little industrial activity in this value chain, and battery cell production was especially missing. For this, new skills and occupations are needed in the European workforce. ALBATTS has, as an ERASMUS+ blueprint project (Sector Skills Alliances), focused on the European level of education and training
<< Background >> The background of the ALBATTS project is the emerging battery- and electromobility value chain in Europe, which is a crucial element in EU climate- and transport policy. Europe had previously very little industrial activity in this value chain, and battery cell production was especially missing. For this, new skills and occupations are needed in the European workforce. ALBATTS has, as an ERASMUS+ blueprint project (Sector Skills Alliances), focused on the European level of education and training << Objectives >> The project's objectives were first to develop and continuously update sectoral skills intelligence for the sector, including new occupations, new skills needs, skills mismatches, trends in the relevant labour market, etc. On that basis, to define what was most needed to develop in education and to develop that: Job role definitions, skills descriptions, learning objectives, curricula, digital courses and modules, and so forth. An objective was also to create a Sectoral Skills Strategy. << Implementation >> The ALBATTS project (December 2019-May2024) had a partnership of 21 partners from 11 countries and was organised in 6 work packages: 1. Management, 2. Dissemination, 3. Sectoral Intelligence, 4. Intelligence in Stationary and Industrial Applications, 5, Intelligence in Mobile Applications, and 6. Education and Training. The project had a Steering board of European-wide branch organisations and initiatives. The project networked and cooperated widely with relevant European stakeholders, << Results >> The results of the ALBATTS projects are, among others, A Sectoral Skills Strategy with recommendations for a long-term action plan, multiple reports on sectoral intelligence, 26 Skills Cards (4 of which already are accepted by ESCO), curricular material, digital courses and modules for quick take-up, a handbook for teachers in the sector and a plan for sustainability and legacy of the project results after the project. ALBATTS has worked in parallel with the emergence of the European sector.