WOOD EMC², is the name of the project financed by the European Union (Leonardo Da Vinci Program) which started October 2006 and will run for two years. It means: WOOD EUROPEAN MANAGER CONSTRUCTION CERTIFICATION. The project brings together 6 countries and 9 organizations with a common interest in addressing the following problems in the sector:
- The lack of qualified workers in the wood construction companies
- Insufficient training available in this sector
- Ageing workforce
- Management level deficiencies in companies
- The regulations and technologies in constant evolution
- The overactivity of the head manager in commercial, production sector, the strategy of development and team management
The European partners decided to help the companies to recruit and/or to train qualified staff in management specific to the field of construction. They proposed in February 2006 to the European Commission the WOOD EMC² project which aims to create a European certificate for the sector.
The BTP Drôme & Ardèche (France) Trade association for building companies which manages more than 10 workers
The CAPEB Drôme (France) trade association for building craftsmen.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Thuringia (Germany), with its training centre in wood construction, joinery and carpentry.
The Ergli Training Centre (Latvia) specialized in logs and frame building,
The InnovaWood Secretariat located in Ireland, a European network of training centres, research institutes and higher education colleges active in the forestry-wood chain.
The National Institute of Wood from Romania – leader in reserch – development, training in the field of wood proccesing, construction and furniture, design, marketing, microproduction – prototype.
AMDELCO consultancy specialized in Human resources in the forest and wood sector in Sweden.
The CTBA (France) will monitor the quality of the project for its management and production of expected results.
The first transnational seminar was held in Valence - France, in the buildings of NEOPOLIS, and the work of the first phase was programmed.
The project comprises the following main tasks:
1. Develop a general competences list for managers in the sector based on the results of a survey;
2. Create a catalogue of available training courses related to wood in construction for each partner-country.
3. Set-up a common curriculum of training for managers and workers of wood construction companies
A skills management survey of at least 20 companies in each partner-country is one of the first tasks. Those will have to supplement a table on which are listed a series of skills and for each one it will be advisable to indicate the degree of importance taking in consideration the company’s activities.
A training survey about wood construction and carpentry in each country.
For that, the partners will forward to the vocational training centres, schools and technical colleges the survey which will make it possible to identify the existing training modules skill by skill.
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