B-Prof Project Meeting is off with a bang!
The first B-Prof project meeting was held during the month of december in Lisbon, Portugal. During 3 days project members discussed the future of welders training and how to improve on.
Informal Training Recognition in Welding.
Introduce an alternative system of certification to allow workers with previously unrecognized welding competences to be reintegrated in the wider labour market.
B-Prof is co-funded by the European Commission.
B-Prof is a European Grundtvig project, co-funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme. The project began on October 2010 and will finish on September 2012.
Welcome
B-PROF – Informal Training Recognition in the welding industry.
B-PROF is a European Grundtvig project, co-funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme.The welding sector currently has a glaring lack of qualified and certified personnel and, as welding is a transversal sector to such diverse areas as metalworking, oil&gas, automobile industry, telecommunications, etc. this lack of personnel has dire consequences.
In fact, actual demand for qualified workers in the field easily surpasses supply and recent studies have shown that the shortage of welders in 2010 was in the order of 200 000.
B-PROF will seek to address this issue by introducing an alternative system of certification that will allow workers with extensive unrecognized experience in welding to be reintroduced into the sector as fully qualified welders, with their qualifications updated and properly recognized.
Latest Activities:
• 3rd project meeting
The third partnership meeting of the project took place in Madrid, on January 12 & 13 2012.
The meeting was hosted by the Spanish partner Dirección General de Formación and came in the follow-up to the Interim Report evaluation and the meeting focused on the main conclusions of the report and the best solutions to address the main aspects pointed out by the Executive Agency.
All partners were in attendance and active in presenting common solutions and strategies to carry on the project implementation.
During the meeting, the opportunity to collect footage and perform interviews at the Spanish welding institute, CESOL, was also undertaken by the consortium.
• 2nd Project meeting
The project 2nd meeting took place in Ljubljana, hosted by the Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Vocational Education and Training on June 2nd & 3rd 2011.
All project partners were in attendance and the main topics on discussion covered the preliminary analysis of the documents prepared for assessing state of the art in the partner countries, in terms of non-formal and informal education.
The meeting also allowed for short interviews to welders at the Institut za Varlistvo, in Ljubljana.
The main focus of the meeting was to set out the activities for the first months of the project and a chance for the participants to assess their own expertise in this field of activities.
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