<< Objectives >>AHOD360 was born to cover some important needs in shipwright, one of the oldest professions in our continent, as it is the need to rejuvenate workforce increasing the number of young students, provide access to information to students regardless of their location, enhance European connections between professionals-students in different maritime areas and preserve practical knowledge and know-how of retiring professionals with the use of immersive learning and new technologies (videos 360)<< Implementation >>Implementation AHOD 360 will be conducted with 4 WPs:-Project management, with activities such as coordination, promotion, evaluation, inclusion and green practices-Development of shipwright sector collaborative portal 2.0 with 8 activities-Production of an European audio-visual shipwright multilingual terminology platform with 11 activities-Creation of an immersive learning environment: with development of five 360° virtual tours of shipyards from different maritime areas with 18 activities<< Results >>Expected results of AHOD 360 are:-Shipwright collaborative portal with the possibility of sharing content, create topics, ask and answer questions and contact with professionals and learners of other places-European shipwright platform with more than 1000 terms with descriptions, images, voice notes and translation in 5 languages (EN,SP,GE,IT,FR)-Creation of an immersive learning environment with 5 - 360° virtual tours including POV videos of current shipwright explaining different concepts

“ALL HANDS ON DECK” is a signal used on board ship, and it means that everyone is needed in a particular situation; but the crisis of the last years has two important labour victims who have suffered the worst of the crisis: younger ones (because they are not receiving their first opportunity) and professionals beyond 45 years old. Current work panorama at European Union is quite different from a decade abroadMoreover, workers beyond of 45 years old has the additional obstacle that over time the possibilities diminish and they become long-term unemployed with the risk of exclusion, with the aggravating that in some countries it is being studied to extend the retirement age which could be a clear problem for them (and it is worst when a whole family depends of their salary). In fact, there are some countries like Spain and Greece where the unemployed rate for people beyond 50 are large (more than 15% at the beginning of 2018 according Eurostat), this is worst in some sectors like furniture where in those countries has decreased a lot the number of employees in the last 10 years (32% in Spain and 57% in Greece)For that, in line with ET2020/European Agenda for Adult Learning, it is necessary to give more opportunities to possible career transitions in case of long-term unemployment.At the same time, it is found that some job opportunities like shipwright are growing in some parts of Europe (like UK and Sweden) and it is expected to be replicated in other European countries because it is more environmentally friendly and there are not a lot of current professionals working on this. Moreover, boosting the transition to this job position, we are helping to recover immaterial heritage around Europe which is part of our common identity and help to preserve it.In order to this, this project will develop an online repository with clue documents (including videos with current workers) about shipwright in the 6 European Maritime Regions (Intermediterranean, Atlantic arc, Baltic, North sea, Balkan & Black sea and Islands) according CPMR classification to be used by professionals, researchers or trainers; a study about the current trainer offer for this job position; a training course to adults according previous background (furniture, upholstery and close sectors) for acquiring shipwright skills implemented in an e-platform compatible with smartphones and tablets and available in English, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Polish and French; mentoring course for adult learners to preserve and spread the immaterial heritage of shipwright to the new young generationsThese results will be achieved in a 24-month project. These results will be totally open and free accessible to the public and the partners will ensure of that with the publication of all the material in the own project website and e-learning platform and additional publication in different open platforms to have bigger impactThese available outputs will have impact and could be used by adult professionals (mainly potential learners - unemployed of furniture or related sector), Professional shipwrights, Young learners, Heritage researchers, Teachers and trainers, Experts in Human Resources, Educational decision makers and other Stakeholders but they will be available for general public and it exists the possibility of transference to other sectors of some of the materialALL HANDS ON DECK brings together 6 partners from 5 different countries and maritime areas according CPMR: Spain, Greece, Belgium, Italy and Poland with complementary skills and with necessary background to achieve the goals of the projectThe coordinator is Murcia University (Spain) with their Chair of Naval History and Heritage with their experience in shipwright and other maritime job positions and the recovering of some old procedures and documents and developing courses. WULS/SGGW (Poland) could be one of the most skilled universities in Europe for designing a training course for transferring people from furniture sector to shipwright. CEIPES (Italy) has a great experience in developing adults and mentoring courses and e-platforms. IDEC (Greece) has an extensive experience in adult learning (each year it hosts approx. 300 adult learners in more than 15 thematics) and numerous contacts with maritime training, they will adapt the contents. CETEM (Spain) is a VET and adult learning provider and research center in furniture sector, they will develop the repository and some contents. INNOVAWOOD (Belgium) has an extent network of institutions in 27 European countries to disseminate the results to stakeholders across de EU.This project will have impact at local, regional, national and European level with the most important impact in the conservation of immaterial cultural heritage and in the level of long-term unemployment in some sectors through the transition to other potential careers

SmarTrain joins VET providers and Research and Technology Organisations from the Woodworking and Furniture Manufacturing Industries to challenge and broaden the horizons of European VET systems. The project will detect the core changes required to include new SKCs (Skills, Knowledge and Competencies) in the official curricula of VET, aligned with the current and future demands of the wood&furniture sector. Hitherto it addresses a major TRAINING GAP between VET curricula and companies’ real needs for transformation. Acknowledging that 40% of workers does not have sufficient digital skills (Eurostat 2015), SmarTrain fosters the EVOLUTION OF ENTERPRISES TOWARDS THE INDUSTRY 4.0, exploiting previous initiatives aimed to facilitate this undeniable new industrial revolution for both companies and their future workers. The main objective is the acquisition of SKCs about CIRCULAR ECONOMY, ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING and INTELLIGENT FURNITURE, which require new (soft) skills in this digital era: digital literacy, curiosity and imagination, critical analysis of information, entrepreneurship, collaboration in networks, agility and adaptability, critical thinking and problem solving. SmarTrain is a collaboration of RTOs, an European umbrella organisation (AIDIMME, COSMOB, INNOVAWOOD) and 3 VET centres (CIPFP Catarroja, ENAIP Lombardia, WOODWIZE), paired by countries. SmarTrain composes a network fostering VERTICAL (between sectoral and VET centres), HORIZONTAL (between centers of the same typology) and MULTIDISCIPLINARY links for exchange and collaboration, all of them forming a CIRCULAR CONSORTIUM in touch with the labour market and the educational sector.The initiative includes the development of three IOs:• IO1: Innovative open training material on Circular Economy and Digitisation (AdditiveManufacturing, Intelligent Furniture) including e-Learning, ready-to-use for VET-learners in the wood&furniture sector.• IO2: Cross-cultural course for VET students & teachers consisting of 3 cooperative VET school projects (Project Based Learning and Co-creational Learning).• IO3: Open Education Handbook and Best Practices for VET stakeholders: from VET students to hiring companies.Both students and accompanying teachers will acquire fundamental SKCs and new soft skills, and will participate in National MEs to expose their final pieces of furniture as prime showcases for INNOVATION MANAGEMENT incorporated into current VET systems. SmartTrain promotes fellowship, collaboration, support and synergy, and above all, Smart Attitudes.Therefore, the initiative will give much room for the INCLUSION of participants ‘with different skills’. All our students are going to join forces and talents. In every student there are for sure hidden aptitudes, expertise and genius to be offered to the rest of the group.We aim at the participation of some 30% of students with lesser chances, students that are particularly, facing difficulties and obstacles to participate in international projects. They will participate in the same activities as the rest of students, coming from other VET Centres. All of them will perfectly complement each other, fitting as the pieces of a puzzle in order to make the most of this project: development of a piece of furniture from scratch, applying innovative elements of CIRCULAR ECONOMY and DIGITISATION. In total, max.10 students + 3 teachers coming from the wood and furniture VET institutions will be trained within the SmarTrain framework.The METHODOLOGY carried out will be as follows:•TRANSFER of knowledge from RTOs to VET centres.•COOPERATIVE APPROACH, which will aim to organise activities into academic and social learning experiences, leading to structuring positive interdependence. Students will work in groups to produce a furniture collectively toward academic goals.•Active and INDUCTIVE learning methods, such as PROJECT BASED LEARNING, paired with the ever-growing technology access available in the facilities of the European VET centres will ensure a deeper comprehension and understanding of new technologies. •Gathering of feedback from the VET stakeholders in this experience. After all, in the European labour market, a gradual upward movement of the increasingly specific and high-profile competencies is occurring. Companies are demanding professionals to deal with digital transformation. However, people looking for jobs rarely meet the ever-demanding requirements of industry 4.0. The ability to work as a team according to the methods of collaboration of less hierarchical and structured working environments, MORE TECHNOLOGICAL and DYNAMIC becomes fundamental. What must be clear, however, is that the 4th Industrial Revolution is about people, not machines. SmarTrain bets on the provision of this skilled workforce in the wood and furniture sector and the development of the competencies demanded by the companies, thanks to the establishment of a circular network of SKCs provision and reception.

"President von der Leyen highlighted in her political guidelines the need to unlock the potential of digital technologies for learning and teaching and to develop skills for all. [1] The digitalisation of EU industries are a strategic imperative and further investment in particular in the digitalisation of manufacturing SMES, the backbone of the EU economy which bring innovative solutions to challenges like climate change, resource efficiency and social cohesion apart from helping spread this innovation through EU's region. The COVID pandemic demonstrated the vulnerability of European industry and uncertainty about how economy recovery will look like. The challenge for SMEs is not simply to be digital but to transform the company into a ""Bionic firm"", that is, a company which is capable of combining technological, transveral and leadership achieving in turn more productive operations and greater innovation. The transition to a digitalised Europe must go hand in hand with the transition to a more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable Europe as guiding principle for the future. [2]Under this context, GIST project has the aim to develop an innovative training material for SMEs to provide them the basic competences needed to reach this ""Bionic Status"". To this end, GIST Consortium has defined the following specific SMART objectives (SO):SO1.To define the required learning outcomes based on a deep analysis on the current needs of industry regarding digital transformation.SO2. To define, develop and validate the structure and methodology of the GIST training course in a Joint Curriculum with the participation of stakeholders, target groups and associated partners. SO3. To deliver the training course on e-learning OER Platform and protect it under open licenses. SO4. To evaluate a complete e-learning experience by a verification action and improve the project results.SO5. To create new job opportunities for people with the necessary skills for the future integrative, sustainable and digitalised industriesThis training material will focus on companies in the furniture sector and related. The 4th industrial revolution is impacting all productive sectors but in some traditional manufacturing sectors such as furniture, the revolution has no entered massively due to the most part of their SMEs under-invests in R&D&I and have less capacity to change production processes and to find highly qualified personnel. [3] These organisations are preoccupied with a shortage of skilled personnel and with an ageing workforce. This type of professional profile that is so widespread in this manufacturing sector needs to be adapted and faced with this new concept of digitalisation with upskilling and reskilling as appropriate. There is a need for investing in life-long learning in the SMEs to increase their capabilities and knowledge.It is time to show the resilience of the furniture sector and the ability of companies to seize the moment (as well as the funds allocated for this purpose) to rebuild the economic and social model on the basis of cooperation, resilience and sustainability. It is necessary to ensure competitiveness and sustainable and supporting resilient and adaptative manufacturing ecosystems, able to cope with external disturbances and rising environmental and social requirements.The prosperity of industry for survive to COVID-19 encompass the globalisation and the interconnection so, this project brings together a Consortium conformed by six partners: a German university specialised in Industry 4.0 KETs research and coordinator of proposals (KIT), a Spanish research centre and VET provider expert in e-learning platform (CETEM), a Croatian research organisation with experience in theoretical and applied research (IRM), a Polish ICT SME expert on non-formal learning system through e.- earning products and software (Globalnet), an Belgium umbrella federation in forestry, woodworking and furniture sector (InnovaWood) and an Slovenian technology park focused on comprehensive support for SMEs (STP). Although the main target group of the project are SMEs from furniture and related sectors, companies’ employees and managers dealing with the implementation of digital transformation, VET providers and HE institutions, employer and employee associations, consultancies and unemployed and students interested in digitalisation training are also potential stakeholders for the proposal.Finally, the GIST project will have a wide impact at European, national, regional and local level and to many different target groups defined before that will be reached after, during and before the project implementation. A Dissemination Plan and a Quality Assurance Plan will be drafted to define the correct strategies to address them and evaluate the correct project implementation and its impact.[1] Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027.[2] EC/COM (2020) 103 final[3] https://cutt.ly/sgRGcNX"

FUNES [FUrniture New European Skills 2020] has stemmed from a latent need that wood and furniture companies are enduring. In the last 10 years, there has been a vast myriad of changes related to globalization, new ways of working, new consumer habits, product customization, etc. The rationale of the project was to solve this need that current and future workers bereft of, which was covering those skills that they are in need of acquiring, in order to develop a work with a optimum level of quality and standards required by their companies, due to new scenarios.Consequently, the aims of the project were to determine the emerging skills demanded by companies in the furniture industry regarding new scenarios, as well as developing an e-learning training material that will be facilitated to the target in order to achieve these new skills. As regards the partnership, it was ambitiously composed by seven multidisciplinary participants that create altogether an initiative with synergy: AIDIMME (Spain) and COSMOB, (Italy) which are Technology Institutes specialized in the wood and furniture sector, specialization that also shares the Technology Institute ITD (Poland), focused on the wood sector; Vocational Education and Training Centres, such as and CFPIMM (Portugal); Enaip Lombardia Foundation (Italy), an acknowledged training agency that delivers a wide variety of high quality training courses and services for the workforce; FEVAMA, a business association in the wood and furniture sector; and InnovaWood (Belgium), which is an umbrella organisation that integrates four European networks in the Forest, Wood-based and Furniture industries into a more effective mechanism to support innovation in these sectors. Thereupon, these activities carried out: - European mapping of the current situation in the furniture industry;- Definition and development of future scenarios; - Compilation of those skills demanded by companies in the furniture sector in the new scenarios;- Development of a self-assessment skills system; - E-learning training course;- Pilot test;- Pilot testing results and improvements.These activities will lead to European analyses and studies about what concerns the wood and furniture skills in the future scenarios, as well as potential training course with its validated pilot test with target members. The methodology used was through questionnaires for the research activities; an e-learning course hosted in a training Moodle platform for elaboration the training course and pilot testing.The impact envisaged has been multiple. From the sectoral point of view, this project has facilitated the knowledge that will constitute those new competencies that the current and futures workers of the furniture sector need to have to face new challenges, in the same way to the furniture Vocational Education and Training. This project provides information on the new needs of the market of work in the case of the furniture sector. The training material allows workers to expand their knowledge, and with this information, FUNES is promoting PROFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPORTUNITIES, leading to establish future strategies or activities that will allow companies to undertake in order to face prospective scenarios.