The Hol Up Project aims to upskill competences of SMEs, VET Institutions and VET Providers in a holistic way in order to prepare them to the future works in the digital era. The project will do this by focusing on these two issues:
(1) What kind of jobs will the market need in the next few years?
(2) What kind of competence does the educational organizations need to teach?
For the first question, It can be said that forthcoming employment needs a high level of knowledge and skills and constant assets in education is required in order to deal with the rate of change brought about by developments in digital technology. Hol Up project will work not only with SMEs to help them develop their future workforce, meeting their current and future needs, but also with VET institutions and VET providers to mitigate their inefficiencies on shaping the future workforce in SMEs.
The Hol Up project primary target groups can be defined under two groups:
-The first group are the SMEs or owners of the SMEs and managers or human resources managers of the SMEs that aim to shape their future work and employment process.
-The second group are the VET institutions and VET providers, universities, professional organizations, Chambers, research centers, policy makers, public authorities and other stakeholders who specifically focus on the needs of SMEs in the age of the digital era.
The Hol Up Project will support the development of key competences, including basic skills of digital era. This will include a critical thinking methodology in accordance with the fast changing world. Besides Hol Up project will provide a holistic view to VET institutions and VET providers which introduce systematic approaches in work based settings (including creation of workforce skills plan), as well as through the requirements of the digital era. This will enable to build a strategic partnership between micro, small and medium sized companies and VET Institutions/VET providers aimed at developing joint competences of future workforce and continuing VET.
Main results of the project include:
-The holistic approach will provide the gap analysis between existing competences and future competences of SMEs and VET institutions/providers for future jobs and competences in partner countries.
-The holistic approach, which includes tracking and developing skills governance model for shaping the future of work force, will provide good workforce planning for SMEs and VET institutions/providers.The holistic approach will provide a guide included how SMEs and VET institutions/providers can deal with shaping the future of work in their organisations via upskilling competences of both existing employees and future employees.
-The holistic approach will provide how VET Institutions and VET Providers can build a dual side relationship and communication which not only increase the competences of the workers but also upskilling the employers and SMEs.
-The holistic approach will provide how SMEs of the project can develop “Hol Up Self-paced Open Online Course” and how VET Institutions and VET Providers can meet the requirements of the digital era.
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