EQF-VETAS

Today’s automotive sector is characterized by steadily ongoing work process innovations, by the development of global delivery networks, and by increasing competition. This yields a lot of requirements for the employees in terms of flexibility to cover the needs of this ever-changing world of work, or, in other words, the ability to cope with complex work requirements which can only be determined properly on the basis of a collaboration of all players in the field, as enterprises and employees, social partners, providers of training and education, public authorities.

Therefore the project VET Stakeholders of the Automotive Sector (VETAS) aims at setting up a network of practitioners and researchers which ensures the quality of training in a way that requirements of work processes are to a maximum degree matched by the abilities of employees to carry out their work. This delivers a “natural link” to all currently ongoing activities intending to establish resp. to update frameworks which are based on learning outcomes as the European Qualification Framework (EQF), national qualification frameworks, but of course also sectoral frameworks (which are planned to be established also in the automotive sector) since these learning outcomes are described within these frameworks in terms of required abilities to carry out work and studies.