Buildings need to be carefully operated and maintained for optimum health, comfort, energy performance, and utility costs. The increasing use of Machine Learning combined with Big Data in the building services sector has shown the potential to bring energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Therefore, upskilling and reskilling the current workforce is required to realize new possibilities. In addition, sharing and preserving knowledge are also required for the sustainable growth of professionals and companies. This formed the basis for the Dutch Research Council funded TransAct project. To increase access to education on the job, online learning is experiencing phenomenal growth. A study was conducted with two focus groups - professionals of a building service company and university researchers - to understand the existing challenges and the ways to improve knowledge sharing and upskilling through learning on the job. This study introduced an Enterprise Social Network platform that connects members and may facilitate knowledge sharing. As a community forum, Yammer from office 365 was used. For hosting project files, a SharePoint page was created. For online courses, the company’s online learning site was utilized. The log data from the online tools were analysed, semi-structured interviews and webinars were conducted and feedback was collected with google forms. Incentive models like social recognition and innovative project results were used to motivate the professionals for online activities. This paper distinguishes the impacts of initiatives on the behaviour of university researchers vs company employees.
In het project ‘GrensOverstijgend PRaktijkOpleiden’ (GoPro), zijn wij aan het experimenteren met camera’s in Mbo 2 en 3-opleidingen in de ondergrondse infratechniek. Meer dan 20 stakeholders uit deze branche waaronder verschillende Mbo’s, brancheorganisaties en een grote groep bedrijven ondersteunen het project. Hoofdfinancier is de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). Het project wordt gecoördineerd door de Universiteit Twente, die daarbij ondersteund wordt door de Hogeschool Utrecht, Stichting Blei en Bouwend Nederland. Graag delen we met u een aantal inzichten en ervaring die we tot nu toe opgedaan hebben, die u hopelijk helpen om zelf ook met camera’s aan de slag te gaan in uw onderwijs. Deel 2 van een artikelserie over de toepassing van GoPro-camera's in mbo-onderwijs en op leerwerkplekken. Deel 1 is verschenen in de novemberuitgave van Vakblad Profiel 2021.
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The aim of the project is to upskill and reskill Cultural Routes Staff in all aspects related to digital and creative competencies to support Cultural Routes in the digital transition. The project will help Cultural Routes to manage and disseminate content in an engaging and effective way by promoting their cultural heritage through innovative gamification approaches.Societal issueThe aim of the project is to strengthen the skills and knowledge of European Cultural Routes’ staff, through digital and creative transformation, using an innovative gamification approach, in order to promote cultural heritage at a local, national and transnational level, making Cultural Routes known to the wider audience to increase their attractiveness.Benefit to societyThe NEXT ROUTES project comes from the need of addressing the digital transformation through the development of an innovative toolkit based on gamification elements aimed at delivering tailored training opportunities to increase the knowledge, and the digital and creative skills of Cultural Route managers and staff. The project will represent a great added value both at Cultural Routes level, through the improvement of skills and knowledge, and at EU level with the great impact that it will achieve among all the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, through the capitalisation of the toolkit and the NEXT ROUTES user manual.
The PANTOUR consortium builds on previous knowledge and tools produced by the Blueprint for Sectoral Skills project/NTG Alliance and will develop new tools and methodology to address strategic and sustainable approaches and cooperation between vocational education, training, higher education, enterprises of the tourism sector, looking to boost innovation in Europe (in tourism, leisure and hospitality).Societal IssueThe aim of this project is to map and bridge the existing skills gaps in Green, Social and Digital skills of workforce in tourism, leisure and hospitality.Benefit to societyMaking lifelong learning and mobility a reality, developing innovative learning solutions and promoting inclusiveness and access to education. Promoting active citizenship, building equal opportunities and addressing gender equality, diversity and inclusiveness in targeted actions.The consortium aims especially at designing innovative and cooperative solutions to address skills needs in the tourism ecosystem, with the development of outputs such as: the Sectoral Skills Intelligence Monitor, the Tourism Skills Lab, Resource Books for Trainers, the implementation of the National Skills Groups, a Skills Strategy Plan for 2026-2036, among others. With the exploitation of its outputs, PANTOUR seeks to benefit job seekers, unemployed and employed workers from the industry, employers, SMEs and micro entrepreneurs, dedicating a special attention in reskilling and upskilling the workforce on future skills needs in digital, green and social skills.The number of people benefiting from this proposal will be over 10 million that work across the tourism and leisure sector in Europe.The consortium is a multi-disciplinary partnership which comprises 13 European partners: Industry Partners and Tourism Sector Representatives, Universities and Transnational partners. Project lead is CEHAT (Spain). The other partners are GESTLABOR (Spain), Turismo de Portugal (Portugal), Zangador Research Institute (Bulgaria), Technological University Dublin (Ireland), Federturismo Confindustria (Italy), VIMOSZ (Hungary), European Tourism Association ETOA (Transnational), Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Ruraltour (Transnational), Landurlaub (Germany), University of the Aegan (Greece).
