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Project
Summary
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What needs does
the project address?
The strength of Small and Medium European Enterprises can
be found in the productive flexibility, which adequately
meets marketing needs. On the other hand their weak point
is the incapacity of training both young new people new
to the firm and long term workers, according to a specific
programme and foreseeing future needs (see the different
National and Community researches). All this is particularly
important as regards the development possibilities of SMEs
in view of the rapid technological, organizing and productive
changes, which the same firms have to face owing to the
market globalization. If European SMEs are unable to analyze
their internal organization by foreseeing and determining
training needs as regards the productive transformation
strategies and goals, they will probably run the risk of
not overcoming the impact with planetary evolution.
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What are the specific aims of the project?
In order to meet these needs the project aims at drawing
up orientative and training models, methods and instruments
so that enterprises can draw up appropriate enterprise
training plans (ETP). These are programmes, which aim
at satisfying the training needs and the requirements
for skilled staff in the firm's organization. These needs
have emerged as a result of the formulation of firm strategies
connected with the evolution of the contest in which
the firm is placed. |
What formulation of ETPs does mean?
The formulation of Enterprise Training Plans is a process
which requires:
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The
analysis of the contest and the relative strategies
in order to face it.
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The
survey of the training needs determined by the
organization and by the
necessary abilities
in order to pursue the firm's
aims.
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The
planning of an articulated project consistent with
the organizing development
strategies and which
includes
all its components (analysis results,
aims, objectives, training, planning, coordination
and control, follow
up, participants, and training contract,
resources, etc.).
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What is the expected impact of the project?
Such models, methods and instruments are to be produced
and publicized by means of new information technology.
They will enable SMEs (partners have experimentally chosen
some areas which have a strategic social and economic
importance) to develop organic programmes and training
actions which meet strategical choices aimed to preserve,
adapt and anticipate the role of enterprises on the market.
These should be functional to the structural system of
the enterprise. All this will lead the entrepreneurs
and personnel in charge of human resources of SMEs (starting
from the survey of their present organizational situation)
to determine the gaps in abilities as regards the pursuit
of the firm's objectives. It will also lead to the elaboration
of retraining and adequate processes of present human
resources and the training of future ones. The model
will be taken from ETPs, to then be elaborated and conformed
to the reality in which the firm operates (national,
regional, local or industrial district, etc.). |
What specific results are expected in the course of the
project?
The instruments and the products of the present project
will be elaborated according to the dimensions and the
starting situation of the enterprise. They will include
both the simple paper and audiovisual instruments (technical
manuals, videocassettes for the diffusion of training culture
in enterprises, etc.) and multimedial instruments (auto
analysis cd-roms, observation of he needs and planning
of the training programmes). Furthermore, a permanent debate
forum will be created inside a web site, first in order
to help entrepreneurs and personnel in charge of human
resources in the learning process and in the elaboration
of ETPs and secondly in order to create the above-said
net. On the one hand we have an immediate and direct meeting
of demand (training needs) and offer (training intervention).
On the other hand we have the meeting of the information
as regards training content from the job market and the
training opportunities, skills and experience which the
school can offer to students and workers who should be
(re)qualified (apprenticeship, contract of formation and
employment, workers at risk owing to their out-of-date
professional contents, etc.) |
What are the specific methods of the project?
Methods will be the following: orientation, self training,
focus groups, assisted training, distance training, by
means of ICTs which will allow an immediate reading of
the comparison of private and strategic data aimed at
the training objects of the enterprise. Moreover, a training
SCHOOL-ENTERPRISE network will be established by means
of ICTs, which will allow school and enterprise to exchange
information directly, through a double line. |
What is the work programme?
The project management determines the following steps:
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Analysis
of the situation of enterprises in
the above-named sectors, focused on the application
level of instruments
suitable to determine training needs and
their planning.
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Determination
of pilot enterprises in which it
will be possible to apply the instruments
necessary to elaborate
ETP.
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Orientation
of the instruments / personnel responsible for
human resources
and their involvement.
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Analysis
of the contest of the enterprises in order
to determine training strategies:
private data;
analysis
of the area where the enterprise
operates => economic
set-up, reference market, job
market, operating technology,
reference
area etc.; analysis of strategic
choices => organization,
products/services, markets,
technology, alliances, etc.
Realization of
instruments supported by information
and
communication technologies
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Setting
of the instruments and
their practical check by
means
of experimentation
in the pilot enterprises
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Setting-up
of the network of enterprises which apply
ETPs and
comparison of
the emergent problems
by means of
focus groups of the
involved subjects.
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Diffusion
of the instruments and their
guided application
in the enterprises
of the above-said
sectors, by means
of assisted training.
Introduction of
the results of experimentation
into the network
and promotion
of continuous training
and alternation
school/work in
order to meet the
emergent training needs.
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Diffusion
of the instruments
by means
of the canals
of the Associations
of industrial
and handicraft
categories
and of the intranet
network
of Public Education
Department.
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