Process Industry LEarning Unit Project

Manfred van de Kreeke Brussels, 4 October 2012

Today’s story about Pile Up

1. What?

2. Who?

3. Why?

4. How?

- ECVET

- activities

5. What about a skills council?

What is Pile Up about?

mobility of workers in the chemical industry in Europe

• a common European competence profile for Maintenance technician & Process Operator

• based on ECVET methodology• assessment and validation of worker’s competences• Pile Up competences to reach a higher qualification

Core partners (Steering group)

• ROC West-Brabant (project coordinator) NL• Kenteq Centre of Expertise NL• SBG für Umweltschutz und Chemieberufe DE• Belgian Maintenance Association (BEMAS) BE• Instytut Technologii (ITeE-PIB) PL• National Agency for VET (NAVET) BG• Wear Management CH

Associated partners/subcontractors

• Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIB) DE• PMLF Centre of Expertise NL• Voka-KvKAW BE• Bulgarian Chamber of Chemical industry BG• Maintenance Education Consortium (MEC) NL• Czech Maintenance Society CZ• Dr. Kolb and other companies NL• University of Dresden DE

Why did we start Pile Up?

• Need for skilled workers (All round Operators & Maintenance Technicians) on EQF level 4

• Need to understand the levels and content of qualifications of foreign workers

• Necessity to upgrade skilled workers towards level 4 by assessing their skills and offering them flexible learning possibilities

The main aim of Pile Up

To develop and implement units of learning outcomes, (competence profiles) based on ECVET* methodology which can be used for:

1. The recognition and validation of competences of foreign workers

2. Piling up (accumulate) the competences of workers to reach a higher level of qualification

* ECVET: European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training

ECVET basics

• Learning outcomes

• Unit based• Mutual

trust

Project activities PILE UP

• Compare existing job profiles (all partners)

• Create a common job profiles for All-round Process Operator and Maintenance Technician:

– Learning outcomes: knowledge, skills and competences related to work tasks

– Units of LO; smaller components of qualifications that can be assessed, validated and recognised

Units of learning outcomes

ULO 1Performing operational logistics

     

ULO 2Perfoming physical

processes

ULO 3Performing chemical

processes

ULO 4Performing biological

processes     

ULO 5Participating in quality assurance and customer orientation     

ULO 6Participating in maintenance and repairs

Work tasks: Unit 2-1.1.1 Manual and automatic temperature control of liquids

Practical knowledge

Characterization of work activity

 

 

Theoretical Knowledge

Characterization of a work system

Work steps Skills/abilities Scientific context Technological contextThe operator analyzes the current work plan.

Reflection of the knowledge acquired. Planning the process

   

Explanation of the functioning of the heating (switch-on sequence) – manually und automatically

Operation of process thermostats

Heating and cooling of liquid media (boiling and melting point)

Operation of process thermostats

Implementation of instruction, thereby repeat filling and emptying

Unlock the ways of conveying and filling the reactors with the prescribed levels. Operating the process thermostats in the manual and automatic mode.

Basics of measurement and control engineering

Operating the system, thereby using the existing measurement and control technique and process control technique.

The operator documents all activities

Creating log according to specified matrix

   

Project activities PILE UP

• Compare common profiles to national qualifications

• Testing:– Theoretical feedback from industry (ESSC)

– In practice: assessments in companies

• Evaluation of test results

• Recommendations for the use of units of learning outcomes and the implementation of ECVET (ESSC)

• Implementation in practice by the sector

What about a European SSC?

Success of Pile Up depends on support and accessibility of the sector

European SSC could provide an organised structure to:•… get the necessary feedback from the sector•… to present projects or other initiatives to the sector•… reach the target group / end users of project results•… realize mutual trust between interested parties

Note: very important to include the right people!

Industry

1.Profession

2.Description learning outcomes (skills)

3.Assessment

4.Training

Training providers

How can these 2 worlds communicate better?

European SSC?!

For more information: www.pile-up.eu

Contact details:

Annejet Goede

a.goede@rocwb.nl

+31651391019

Manfred van de Kreeke

m.vandekreeke@rocwb.nl

+31613165466