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PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND BACKGROUND |
The furniture sector in EU is facing significant challenges in competing
in the globalized market. The increased reliance on a skilled workforce
and efficient production techniques is being compromised by a lack
of sufficiently knowledgeable workers, especially in skilled and
management positions. Better training of the existing workforce
and prospective job seekers in the sector is needed, to maintain
and upgrade their qualifications and skills and to continually transfer
the acquired competencies in the same time as new ones are created.
To respond to these needs, the LILAC project aims at implementing
and testing a web-based platform that integrates competence management,
e-learning and knowledge management to the benefit of employees
working in an organisation.
The envisaged outputs
of the project were:
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A Web-based system
that manages job roles and related competencies of relevance to the
furniture industry, allows to perform competence assessments and to
share a knowledge base of information catalogued according to those
competencies. As such, this system acts as training support tool,
enabling users to identify skills gaps and related training needs,
and will point them directly to appropriate resources to meet those
needs. The system will be multilingual: user interface and job profiles
will be available in all the consortium languages (English, French,
Italian, Spanish). LILAC will be built on a prototype, already available,
developed and validated during 2 previous ESF Article 6 projects (KnowMove
and Change-Up) |
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A number of training pathways on
topics relevant to the furniture industry connecting a number of e-learning
modules (knowledge pills or learning objects) related to one or more
job profiles identified in the system. These e-learning modules are
available in all the consortium languages. |
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