Completed project · 2008–2010
ECVET‐D‐Bau
In the project ECVET-D-BAU “Development of a credit point system for continuing vocational training in the construction industry”, a credit point system was developed for the transition from initial vocational training to continuing vocational training.
The credit point system was elaborated for the advanced training occupation of site foreman (Polier), which in construction production corresponds to the industrial master craftsman. The credit point system is intended to help make the career path to the advanced training occupation of
site foreman consistent, make professional development plannable, ensure the recognition of competences acquired in non-formal learning processes, and take professional experience appropriately into account and integrate it in a calculable way into vocational qualification.
Within the project, suitable components of the competence profile of middle construction management (in particular the site foreman training) that represent self-contained vocational competences were first elaborated in such a way that credit points could be assigned to them. A practical test was then carried out to determine whether these
competence definitions are suitable for identifying existing competences, in order to develop a personal continuing training plan from the difference between the current competence assessment and the targeted competence profile, in which credit points make the current status, required measures and progress visible. In the same way, further components of the overall competence profile were successively elaborated.