There is consensus among partners from the automotive industry around Europe that the transition to green and digital will require joint efforts. concrete, and unanimously agreed actions to prepare the workforce in the field to be ready for the change and adapt to the new requirements.
To get coherence, rhythm and uniform implementation chances throughout the European space, those efforts need a “glue”, an element that will make those efforts equally implementable in different countries with a similar impact and chances for success. This glue, is COLLABORATION. European countries must find the right ways, the proper frameworks, to cooperate, align, bring, and adopt ideas in order to make their efforts visible and their unique voice audible!
Subsequently, several projects were launched under the Automotive Skills Alliance to tackle the mentioned challenges. The European Project FLAMENCO is an ERASMUS+ co-funded project that aims to analyse and pilot forward-looking approaches and methods to enable and make sustainable collaboration on the skills agenda in Europe. The project’s goals are to define and improve the most effective and pragmatic ways of collaboration on the skills agenda in Europe and to develop a framework for collaboration that will enable stakeholders to work together to ensure that the automotive-mobility workforce has the necessary skills to meet the changing needs of the industry.
Project FLAMENCO works on the need for collaboration by analysing and piloting forward-looking approaches and methods to enable and make sustainable collaboration on the skills agenda in Europe. The project’s overall goal is to develop a framework for collaboration that will enable stakeholders to work together to ensure that the automotive-mobility workforce has the necessary skills to meet the changing needs of the industry.
The project consortium is composed of 11 partners from 4 European countries.
ASA and partners in those projects took the initiative to sit together in workshop-events, to discuss the implications of the transition, the up/re-skilling needs, and, above all, possible solutions to collaborate and find the best opportunities at the European level.
The workshops were organized in project partner countries – Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Romania.
On June 6th, VSB – Technical University Ostrava together with SKODA AUTO University, co-organized a workshop with the Czech Automotive Industry Association focused on “Impact of twin transition to skills needs and training and the education offer in Czech Automotive Ecosystem”.
The participants discussed collaboration challenges and opportunities – in relation to the FLAMENCO project and the Automotive Skills Alliance, specific importance of soft skills in relation to the PASS project, or specific view on tertiary education, in order to come up with concrete solutions and actions to be taken.
The other FLAMENCO workshops were in Belgium – organized by EDUCAM – during the period from the end of May till the end of June, with the national stakeholders from the field of education and training as well as the social partners.
An Austrian workshop was organized by ISCN and EuroSPI on June 26th, 2023 with universities – such as TU Graz – or companies in automotive-mobility sector -such as Bosch, Elektrobit or ZF Engineering -. Participants discussed concrete ways on how to collaborate in the sector and with the initiatives alike ASA,
A Romanian workshop was organized by ITC, Transilvania IT Cluster and APTE as an online event on May 25th, 2023. Romanian stakeholders discussed the needs of collaboration and shared existing collaboration models to inspire further discussions about how those models could be improved.
Similar national workshops are key to cooperation among partners and create a safe and professional environment to exchange ideas and build solutions that will impact the entire European automotive ecosystem.
