Shoes INNOVA project
1 October 2005 - 31 October 2007
Spain
The European footwear sector is facing strong competition of the goods produced in Asia. That is why the sector is preparing to be more competitive through the Shoes Innova project ("A new learning tool to create value in European footwear sector SMEs"): an important training process for SMEs in the sector. For the Valencian Region, the Instituto Tecnológico Calzado y Conexas-INESCOP (Technological Institute for Footwear and Related Industries) leads the project which is integrated in the action programmes regarding occupational training Leonardo da Vinci.
The European footwear sector promotes company cooperation between the different countries to produce and commercialize their products. In order to achieve this goal it is necessary to improve professional competences of the European SMEs. This can only be achieve by creating a specific training to improve staff management of footwear companies.
Taking this into account, the aim of Shoes Innova is to anticipate new trends in negotiating models and training necessities which the sector will need through creating a matrix system for continuous analysis. This will analyze the technological trends in the footwear sector and it will compare these with the current formative offer in Europe. The Shoes Innova members will take into account the results of the OPTI Foundation (Observatory of Industrial Technological Prospective) and the results of the national reports from the Governments of Spain, Italy and Slovenia on Technological prospective and Information and Communication Technologies.
Afterwards, formative modules will be elaborated in agreement with the outcome of this comparison. Two of these formative lines will have priority and the content of an on-line learning programme will be defined. Each course will take 60 hours. 40 workers will try out these courses. These workers come from Spain, Italy and Slovenia.
The learning system is based on blended learning, this is a combination of learning on site and distance learning with the support of expert tutors and through on-line meeting as well as in situ. Furthermore the training material will be multimedia material and information and communications technologies will be used to improve technical, entrepreneurial, management and communication competences among the members coming from enterprises.
The project includes various innovating aspects. First, new products or processes are created; these projects and processes, such as the Shoes Innova learning system, correspond with existing current problems. Current occupational training systems do not cover completely all the formative needs in the footwear sector. Secondly, new ways of cooperation between the different partners and countries participating in the project are established.
The Fundación Comunidad Valenciana-Región Europea participates in the Shoes Innova project together with INESCOP, Master Distancia S.L. el Centro Servizi Calzaturiero (Italy) Business Support Centre Kranj. Ltd (Slovenia) and INNOVAGES.
The European footwear sector promotes company cooperation between the different countries to produce and commercialize their products. In order to achieve this goal it is necessary to improve professional competences of the European SMEs. This can only be achieve by creating a specific training to improve staff management of footwear companies.
Taking this into account, the aim of Shoes Innova is to anticipate new trends in negotiating models and training necessities which the sector will need through creating a matrix system for continuous analysis. This will analyze the technological trends in the footwear sector and it will compare these with the current formative offer in Europe. The Shoes Innova members will take into account the results of the OPTI Foundation (Observatory of Industrial Technological Prospective) and the results of the national reports from the Governments of Spain, Italy and Slovenia on Technological prospective and Information and Communication Technologies.
Afterwards, formative modules will be elaborated in agreement with the outcome of this comparison. Two of these formative lines will have priority and the content of an on-line learning programme will be defined. Each course will take 60 hours. 40 workers will try out these courses. These workers come from Spain, Italy and Slovenia.
The learning system is based on blended learning, this is a combination of learning on site and distance learning with the support of expert tutors and through on-line meeting as well as in situ. Furthermore the training material will be multimedia material and information and communications technologies will be used to improve technical, entrepreneurial, management and communication competences among the members coming from enterprises.
The project includes various innovating aspects. First, new products or processes are created; these projects and processes, such as the Shoes Innova learning system, correspond with existing current problems. Current occupational training systems do not cover completely all the formative needs in the footwear sector. Secondly, new ways of cooperation between the different partners and countries participating in the project are established.
The Fundación Comunidad Valenciana-Región Europea participates in the Shoes Innova project together with INESCOP, Master Distancia S.L. el Centro Servizi Calzaturiero (Italy) Business Support Centre Kranj. Ltd (Slovenia) and INNOVAGES.