Construction Blueprint project

Construction Blueprint project
Concept:
The main objective of Construction Blueprint is to develop a new sectoral strategic approach to cooperate on skills in the Construction industry, and support a better matching between skills need of companies and skills provided by training centres.
To achieve this goal successfully, the project gathers three Sectoral European Organizations, along with nine National Sectoral representatives and twelve Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Higher Education providers from twelve European Union countries.
Objectives:
This Blueprint will be arranged through a Sectoral Skills Strategy, that will bring together lessons learned from other initiatives and will be outlines from a holistic approach, identifying political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors which may be affecting sector skills and training offer.
Encompassed with activities, milestones, outcomes and outputs, the following activities will be developed during the course of the project:
- Collecting good practices at national and regional level to illustrate and promote other initiatives addressing skill gaps.
- Designing and deliver a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) to raise awareness among construction workers about new skills drivers: digitalisation, energy efficiency and circular economy.
- Creating a tool (Observatory) to provide valuable information about particular skill needs at least at regional/national level.
- Building upon a revision methodology of construction professional profiles and qualifications.
- Carrying out an outreach campaign for the Construction industry to promote its attractiveness among youngsters and women, identifying and promoting solutions to facilitate mobility of construction workers in Europe.
- Creating a new virtual tool (website) where all project outputs will be available for stakeholders, as well as a Sector Skills Alliance platform for collaborative work.
Blueprint will be starting deployed by getting main market players involved (Education-Economic-Political-Environment-Civil Society/Cultural) taking up opportunities to make the best of their talents.
They will constitute together with the partnership, the Sector Skills Alliance, the necessary driver to push a sustainable sectoral strategy and Blueprint implementation.
Partnership:
- European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC)
- European Builders Confederation (EBC)
- Institute of Vocational Training (AKMI)
- Berufsförderungswerk der Bauindustrie NRW gGmbH (BFW-NRW)
- Associazione Nazionale Costruttori Edili (Ance)
- Confédération Construction (CC)
- Others
