ECOSLIGHT

Objectives of the project

• Design new occupational job profiles for lighting design professionals. The occupational profiles will address current and future competences needs of the construction sector.
• Map the identified occupational profiles to EQF, ESCO, ISCO-08 and NQFs of the participating countries.
• Apply an outcome-based learning methodology to the design of the training modules, using EQAVET in the design and ECVET to facilitate recognition of learning and mobility.
• Define the ECOSLIGHT curriculums to upskill construction-related professionals to environmentally conscious smart lighting designers, detaining digital, green, entrepreneurial and 21st-century competences.
• Develop a modular VET curriculum (composed of a MOOC, e-learning modules, live training sessions and work-based learning) that can be adapted to national needs. Through its modular structure, the proposed curriculum can be re-used to meet the needs of lighting experts from various sectors not necessarily linked to the construction sector.
• Invest on open technologies and training content
• Promote quality assurance in the VET curriculum using EQAVET principles
• Develop an integrated online platform to deliver the VET curricula and to stimulate sharing, exchange and flow of knowledge, experiences and best practices
• Pilot the VET curriculum in 4 project countries
• Promote, disseminate and exploit the results at national and European levels
• Create overall a sustainable program that can be continued by the consortium even after the co-funding period has ended, with the support of the market.

Expected Results

• ECOSLIGHT Mapping the skills supply and demand of the lighting-related construction sector
• ECOSLIGHT Emerging Job Profiles for ECOSLIGHT Professionals related to lighting design and lighting technologies
• ECOSLIGHT Modular VET curricula
• ECOSLIGHT Methodology for realizing VET curricula

Project Activities

The project produced a multitude of diverse outputs and outcomes, printed and online, tangible and intangible, including reports, methodologies and policies, VET curricula, standards, digital content and tools, courses, publications, events and communities. More specifically:

• Reports: Report on the mapping of lighting-related skills supply and demand at national (for the 4 participating countries), report on Emerging job role profiles for lighting-design related professionals, evaluation reports, exploitation plan listing the main outcomes and possible exploitation roadmaps.
• Methodologies and policies: VET Methodology and Handbooks (one for each job role profile) based on learning outcomes and principles of adult education for realizing modular high-quality VET curricula in the lighting sector, new approaches to education and competence development that capitalize on the full potential of various learning settings, procedures to validate the non-formal, informal and prior learning in the lighting-related construction sector, guidelines for mapping VET curricula to EQF and NQFs of the participating countries.
• Standards: application of ECVET to facilitate recognition of learning and mobility, quality assurance in the VET curriculum using EQAVET, adoption of the e-Competence Framework, DigComp, EntreComp, LifEComp, Green skills, mapping VET curricula to EQF and NQFs of the participating countries.
• VET curricula: Competence based modular VET curricula for the identified job role profiles
• Digital content: Digital OERs that support the acquisition of more than 50 digital competences helpful for the lighting professionals of the future.
• Courses: A MOOC for acquiring the basic competences of job role profiles will be made available to all construction industry professionals in Europe and worldwide and a Specialization Training Course including e-learning and face-to-face lectures and a work based learning phase with different set of competences delivered for each VET curricula.
• Enrolling more than 800 construction industry professionals into the MOOC and at least 100 professionals to the Specialization Course.
• Online tools: Online training and collaboration platform that stimulates sharing and exchange of knowledge, experiences and best practices, and provides community support even beyond the lifetime of the project.
• Dissemination materials in all project languages, the project web site, project social media, scientific publications, white papers and a book summarizing the outcomes of the project.
• A European conference (at least 100 participants) to sustain the dialogue among construction / lighting –related stakeholders regarding emerging job roles, skills shortage, training needs, employability etc.; awareness raising, promotion and exploitation events in all participating countries
• National sector alliances, including learners, lighting stakeholders, VET organizations and other stakeholders and communities of interest that ensure sustainability of results beyond the lifetime of the project.