Completed project · 2015–2018
Machine Tool Alliance for Skills
Developing innovative learning units on new machine-tool technologies: METALS used a collaborative, cross-national comparative approach to develop learning units that would help apprentices and skilled workers close the gap between existing qualifications and future requirements.
New technologies and materials and changes in work organisation and regulation continually challenge skilled work and vocational qualification systems. The ITB and colleagues from Spain, Italy and Belgium investigated current requirements (‘skills panorama’) and future gaps (‘skills gap’) among machine-tool workers. First, an occupational field of activity was defined that addressed innovative skilled work in machine-tool manufacturing related to additive manufacturing and had a clearly prospective focus.
The second step translated the field's content pedagogically into a learning and work task comprising several sub-tasks.
This was then developed for free online use by apprentices, skilled workers and other interested machine-tool professionals: https://metals.mobil-lernen.com/en/elearning.