Completed project · 2018–2019
Social competences in the 3D printer training project
Increasing workplace demands arising from digitalisation and new forms of work organisation – teams with mixed qualifications, flatter hierarchies, virtual working groups and decentralised decision-making – make social competences key enablers for the future. In tomorrow's workplace, particularly in mechanical and plant engineering, interdisciplinary cooperation across occupational fields and work in heterogeneous teams with mixed qualifications will become everyday activities.
Diverse workforces also bring questions of ethnic, linguistic and religious boundaries to the fore. Intercultural competences sensitive to discrimination therefore become central to the social competences of both apprentices and trainers. Social competence is more than an add-on: it is functionally relevant to training and occupational competence development. This project fosters social competences through the cross-occupational training and learning project ‘Developing and Building a 3D Printer’.