PRESENTATION

Project identification: 2015-1-ES01-KA202-016031

Duration: 24 months, since October 2015 until September 2017

Budget: 246.240 €

Funding: Erasmus+ Program, 2015 Call, Key Action 2, Cooperation for Innovation and the exchange of Good Practices, Strategic partnership for VET.

Project leader: Fundación Laboral de la Construcción –FLC- (Spain).

Partners: Bildungszentren des Baugewerbes eV -BZB- (Germany), Ente per la Formazione e l'addestramento professionale nell'edilizia -Formedil Puglia- (Italy), Centre IFAPME Liège-Huy-Waremme (Belgium), Comité de Concertation et de Coordination de l'Apprentissage du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics -CCCA-BTP- (France) and Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria da Construção Civil e Obras Públicas do Sul -Cenfic- (Portugal).

Description 

The activity of building rehabilitation is increasing in Europe, being currently higher in monetary terms to the residential sector. However, senior workers are about to retire and with their retirement, valuable knowledge on renovation of antique buildings could get lost. To avoid this, and to guarantee a proper restoration in Europe by providing a new generation of qualified workers, the project Construction Inheritance has developed an OER for teaching and transferring knowledge, skills and competences from senior generations of workers to new generations ones.

The project has taken into account processes, materials and techniques applied in real rehabilitation works of the European architectonical heritance as the basis for the development of the training content and its learning outcomes. All this has been implemented on an APP and Web tool, available for mobile devices (Smartphone and/or tablets) and PC, which can be used as a complementary resource in existing training in national VET systems, to upgrade trainees' skills for activities of refurbishment in Europe.

Main Objectives

• Provide young workers with quality training in rehabilitation techniques to ensure a proper restoration of the traditional elements -especially in antique buildings-, in order to ensure a stable manpower supply from now on and support the generational change to meet market demands and global challenges, such as energy efficiency and climate change.
• Develop, test and implement online training contents designed also towards an APP for mobile devices.
• Gather all key knowledge regarding the traditional processes in restoration of buildings, and avoid the lost of valuable knowledge in the sector and guarantee the preservation of buildings in Europe.
• To address the acquisition of key knowledge, skills and competences for rehabilitation work Europe-wide, through a common training system with common reference tools and accreditations.
• Develop open educational resources (OER) to transmit the experienced workers’ know-how in traditional crafts of the construction sector to young workers.
• Enhance job expectations of trainees through up-skilling and make the construction sector more appealing, sustainable and competitive.