Aeronautic Industry Skills Resolution for a more Efficient VET Offer

FLIGHT - PLAN

Project Number: 539319-LLP-1-2013-1-PT-LEONARDO-LMP

With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

Background

Aeronautics and air transport are key drivers of European cohesion

and competitiveness, representing 220 billion of Euros and providing
4,5 million of jobs in Europe, a figure that could double by 2020.
The aeronautics industry (AI) acts globally and requires a high
qualified workforce not only for the positions related to engineering.
The increasing ageing of the EU population might influence the
availability of qualified personnel in EU and emerge in a skill shortage
for the sector.
Considering the characteristics of the Aviation Industrial sector, the
competition for the best workers takes place internationally. In this
context, mobility of workers is an undeniable reality and draws up new
challenges for the educational/training areas:
Improvement of the overall performance of education and training;
Close cooperation among VET* (Vocational Education and Training) systems from
different EU countries;
Better balance between initial and continuous vocational training;
Full use of knowledge and skills acquired in both formal and non-formal settings.

The EU needs to invest in high quality VET

to be able to supply the AI with qualified workers.

*VET: Education and training which aims to equip people with knowledge, know-how, skills and/or competences
required in particular occupations or more broadly on the labour market.
Source: adapted from European Training Foundation, 1997.

AIRVET in a Nutshell

AIRVET in a Nutshell

AIRVETs main aim is to design, develop, evaluate and disseminate adapted/new

Aeronautic Industry (AI) curricula and VET (vocational education and training)
courses in the specific fields of Maintenance and Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT), as these areas are the ones that need a higher number of
qualified personnel.

AIRVET stands for Aeronautic Industry Skills Resolution for a more

Efficient VET Offer.
The project will:
Build up an Alliance of relevant actors in the (AI), bringing
together:
Bodies with AI specific expertise;
VET providers,
Bodies involved in education and training systems.

Work towards the improvement of the adequacy and attractiveness

of VET training offer addressed to the aeronautic sector
Sectorial Focus
The AIRVET will focus specifically on VET (Vocational Education and Training)
in the following main aeronautic sectors:
Air Traffic Management
Airlines
Airports

Whats our plan?

Whats our plan?

AIRVET is implementing a series of activities and producing outputs

for different target groups. Our workplan has three main phases, which
will produce three main outputs:
Phase

Main Output

1. Analysis of skills
needs

Territorial Analysis

2. Curricula Design

AI Training Curricula

3. Curricula Delivery

Multimedia
Resources

Short Description

Collection of training
needs involving the
stakeholders of the
sector
AI Maintenance and
ICT Training Curricula/
Programme

Multimedia Resources
for Training (minimum
3) + Users Guide
Manual

In order to assess the projects results and to disseminate the project

outcomes, we have designed channels of communication not only
through our online tools, but also through a series of events that will
take place from the beginning of the project.

Main events of the project

Launch events in Italy, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK: to raise
awareness about the project

Focus Groups in Spain, France, Poland and Italy validate the results of the analysis
of skills needs

Open Days for Future workers in AI to raise awareness of young people about
future career paths in aeronautics, including work opportunities

Pilot Runs in Spain, France, Poland and Italy to test and validate the multimedia
resources

AIRVET National Workshops in Italy, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the UK
AIRVET Final Conference to promote the final results of the project

Assessment

Engagement

Dissemination
Launch events

Focus Groups

Open Days for

future AI workers

Pilot Runs

Assessment & Validation

Crossmatching offer & needs

Sustainability Plan

Assessment & Validation

Definition of learning
outcomes

Survey on skills needs

Desk research

New technologies for

training in the AI area

Creation/Adaptation of
Curricula

Database of stakeholders

National
Workshops

Final
Conference

Curricula Delivery

Curricula Design

Analysis of skills needs

Multimedia Resources

AI Training Curricula

Territorial Analysis

Whats in for you?

Whats in for you?

In AIRVET we want to work TO and WITH our target groups:
Aeronautic
Industry

(AI)
VET providers
VET trainers
(VET P/T)

Schools and
students (potential
AI workers)
(S&S)

AI workers
and future
workers
(AIW)
Bodies involved
in education and
training systems
(VET B)

Products/ Events

Target Groups

Flight Plan (Booklet)

All

Website & Other dissemination material

All

Launch Events

All

AIRVET Database of Stakeholders

All+AIW+VET P/T

Focus Groups

VET P/T

Territory Analysis (report)

All

Open Days For Future workers in AI

S&S + AIW

Aeronautic Industry Maintenance and ICT training

Curricula/Programmes

AI+VET P/T

Sustainability Plan for VET Curricula

AI+VET P/T+VET B

AIRVET National Workshops

All

Multimedia Resources for Training (minimum 3) +

Users Guide Manual

AI+AIW+VET P/T+S&S

Pilot Runs

AI+AIW+VET P/T+S&S

New Routes Report

AI+VET P/T+VET B

AIRVET Final Conference

All

...so the results and events of the project will be for

our target groups!

AIRVET in detail

AIRVET in detail
The AIRVET Alliance is a multidisciplinary consortium composed of 10 partners from
6 countries, representing 3 types of actors of key importance to the AI sector and to
the accomplishment of the objectives of the project:

Bodies with aeronautic expertise

VET providers

Bodies involved in education and training systems

All the partners share the common concern towards AI and VET, as well as the
relevance of the New Media and ICT technologies in this process.

Key Features
Type of project: Leonardo da Vinci Multilateral Project Development of Innovation
Duration: 24 months, from November 2013 to October 2015
Partners: 10 organisations from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, UK

AIRVET in detail
Strategic Objectives

To foster a close, open, informal dialogue and sustained interactions and networking
between: VET providers, aeronautic experts and bodies involved in education and
training systems;
To improve the knowledge and gather solid evidence from labour market intelligence
to identify skills needs within the AI;
To raise awareness of young people about future career paths in aeronautics, foster
science education and provide contact with different real work situations in the
aeronautic sector;
To review, create and improve the VET curricula and training programmes addressed
to the aeronautics industry, in order to better match with actual and future labor
market needs;
To contribute to the implementation of innovative ways of delivering VET, with a
special focus in the development of multimedia to increase skills and experience
with interactive training systems;
To promote the future sustainability and enlargement of the AIRVET sectoral alliance,
aiming at reaching a real and spontaneous attachment between the members and
attract and engage new members after the end of the project.

Would you like to come aboard?

If you would like to get involved in our activities, have access to the
AIRVETs outcomes or simply know more about the Alliance, you can
reach us and keep up-to-date with AIRVET through our online tools:
www.airvet-project.eu

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or contact the project coordinator or your local partner:

INOVA+ (Portugal Coordinator)
Ms. Ana Ribeiro - ana.ribeiro@inovamais.pt
Coventry University (United Kingdom)
Mr. Christopher Bland - Esx002@coventry.ac.uk
Universidad Politcnica de Madrid (Spain)
Ms. Rosa Arnaldo - rosamaria.arnaldo@upm.es
Sociedad Aeronatica Espaola (Spain)
Mr. Juan Manuel Gallego - sae@sociedadaeronautica.org
IRIT - Universit Paul Sabatier Toulouse III (France)
Mr. Philippe Palanque - palanque@irit.fr
INNpuls Sp. z o.o. (Poland)
Mr. Pawel Wacnik - pwacnik@innpuls.pl
Deep Blue. S.R.L. (Italy)
Ms. Linda Napoletano - linda.napoletano@dblue.it
Collegio Universitario ARCES (Italy)
Mr. Fabrizio Russo - f.russo@arces.it
I3M - Image du Troisime Millnaire (France)
Mr. Laurent Hart - laurent.hart@i3m.fr
ANQEP - Agncia Nacional para a Qualificao e o Ensino Profissional (Portugal)
Ms. Sandra Lameira - sandra.lameira@anqep.gov.pt