Objectives
Fit for 4.0: training trainers and teachers
for the 4.0 paradigm

IN GENERAL TERMS, FIT FOR 4.0 MAIN EXPECTED RESULT ARE:

more skilled VET teachers
and trainers;

improved quality of learning, hence better employability of students and attractiveness of VET;

increased and stable cooperation between training providers, teachers/trainers and enterprises;

availability of sustainable tools, transferable to other economic sectors and other European countries.

MORE SPECIFICALLY, FIT FOR 4.0 OBJECTIVES ARE:

describing a “minimum” of didactical and transversal skills needed by teachers and trainers, especially those involved in HVET, with regard to the 4.0 transition;

developing a competence self-assessment tool, allowing VET teachers and trainers to measure their readiness for the 4.0 World and digital transformation;

developing and testing a resource pack for trainers, realized in strong cooperation with enterprises. This will be a training programme delivered as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), complete with examples of training material, methods for learning assessment, innovative tools for training and learning;

exploiting the MOOC to train a sample group of trainers, who will pilot their learning by co-designing training modules and programs in this new 4.0 concept, together with businesses;

making such products available to everyone, even beyond the partnership, through a knowledge base of OER freely accessible via the same on-line platform used by the sample group;

identifying a set of policy recommendations and suggestions to local, national and European decision-makers, for future updating of teachers’ and trainers’ competences.

MORE SPECIFICALLY, FIT FOR 4.0 OBJECTIVES ARE:

describing a “minimum” of didactical and transversal skills needed by teachers and trainers, especially those involved in HVET, with regard to the 4.0 transition;

developing a competence self-assessment tool, allowing VET teachers and trainers to measure their readiness for the 4.0 World and digital transformation;

developing and testing a resource pack for trainers, realized in strong cooperation with enterprises. This will be a training programme delivered as a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course), complete with examples of training material, methods for learning assessment, innovative tools for training and learning;

exploiting the MOOC to train a sample group of trainers, who will pilot their learning by co-designing training modules and programs in this new 4.0 concept, together with businesses;

making such products available to everyone, even beyond the partnership, through a knowledge base of OER freely accessible via the same on-line platform used by the sample group;

identifying a set of policy recommendations and suggestions to local, national and European decision-makers, for future updating of teachers’ and trainers’ competences.

IT pervades our lives. Nowadays, it is difficult to identify lines of work
that are not connected to hi-tech.

Digitisation, globalisation and net connections represent now a challenge for all enterprises, independently from their dimensions.
Many countries are trying to implement national policies for Industry 4.0, but this field not only concerns technology, but also the organization field and the ways we have to work.
Industry 4.0 requires a cross of competences and a close cooperation among the stakeholders involved.

 

If on one side the world of work is gearing up to face the fast transition to Industry 4.0, on the other side schools and also training institutes are not always ready to support and to accompany the change.

 

To the present day, the majority of teachers and trainers are not conscious about the change that the whole world is living now: most of them don’t even know how to use online instruments that already exist to design, to learn and to evaluate. There is no connection among the fields of study, among the subjects: there is a strong resistance to change.

To make training and education sustainable, it is important to promote the collaboration among trainers, teachers, enterprises, local authorities and social players.
“Fit for 4.0” takes up this challenge, describing a set of competences that are required to the trainers to develop and to experiment some practical tools and training units addressed to 4.0, in close cooperation with enterprises.
Specifically, the project is focused on the automotive, mechanical and mechatronic sectors, where advanced digital skills are essentials and where the 4.0 revolution has already started.

Digitisation, globalisation and net connections represent now a challenge for all enterprises, independently from their dimensions.
Many countries are trying to implement national policies for Industry 4.0, but this field not only concerns technology, but also the organization field and the ways we have to work.
Industry 4.0 requires a cross of competences and a close cooperation among the stakeholders involved.

 

If on one side the world of work is gearing up to face the fast transition to Industry 4.0, on the other side schools and also training institutes are not always ready to support and to accompany the change.

 

To the present day, the majority of teachers and trainers are not conscious about the change that the whole world is living now: most of them don’t even know how to use online instruments that already exist to design, to learn and to evaluate. There is no connection among the fields of study, among the subjects: there is a strong resistance to change.

To make training and education sustainable, it is important to
promote the collaboration among trainers, teachers, enterprises,
local authorities and social players.
“Fit for 4.0” takes up this challenge, describing a set of
competences that are required to the trainers to develop and to
experiment some practical tools and training units addressed to
4.0, in close cooperation with enterprises.
Specifically, the project is focused on the automotive,
mechanical and mechatronic sectors, where advanced digital
skills are essentials and where the 4.0 revolution has already
started.

TARGET GROUPS

Targets of this project are companies, training providers, schools. Special attention will be paid to trainers, to improve their tutorial capabilities by the means of innovative tools that will facilitate the comprehension of the meaning and the impact of 4.0 on study and labour world.
Understanding the relevance of 4.0 can help to co-design education with an inter-disciplinary method, with colleagues and enterprises. Education can promote innovative methods that anticipate operating processes on the labour world.

TARGET GROUPS

Targets of this project are companies, training providers, schools. Special attention will be paid
to trainers, to improve their tutorial capabilities by the means of innovative tools that will
facilitate the comprehension of the meaning and the impact of 4.0 on study and labour world.
Understanding the relevance of 4.0 can help to co-design education with an inter-disciplinary
method, with colleagues and enterprises. Education can promote innovative methods that
anticipate operating processes on the labour world.