AEROVET
AEROVET project under the EU's Lifelong Learning programme
The European aeronautics industry is an outstanding example of intensive transnational collaboration in the production and maintenance of aircraft. Although European agreements concerning requirements and standards for successful skilled work already exist (EASA certification system, uniform quality standards), they have had only a slight impact on vocational training to date. One important product of this project will be a tool (vocational training passport) that will be developed on the basis of the requirements of skilled work (occupational tasks rather than curricula) and outline in a transparent way the learning units and segments that reflect the occupational tasks in the respective sector. This passport will be supplemented by agreed procedures for evaluation, quality assurance and recognition. The individual units will be formulated to contain not only the requirements arising from technical specifications but also normative expectations (specific aeronautics requirements) and expectations that courses also prepare for university studies (compatibility of the Aircraft Maintenance course of study with the ECT system). This tool will be tested with the help of the transnational exchange of trainees that is already being used within the Airbus system; it will be subsequently modified as necessary. Directions for using this tool will be drawn up. These directions will be abstracted from the sector's specific requirements so that the process can be applied to related sectors once the occupational tasks in the individual sector have been identified and validated. The learning units that have been developed will be referenced to current training content (at national level) so that they offer a solid basis for future revisions, be they at national or European level. A commentary - which is to be understood as a recommendation on the part of all institutions involved in the project (including those industrial firms that participated as subcontractors) - regarding European core occupations and the added value of defining them according to the technical ECVET specifications in the aeronautics sector will be developed and published.
