"<< Background >>Europe’s building stock is both unique and heterogeneous in its expression of the cultural diversity and history of our continent. Over 1/3 of global final energy demand and almost 40% of overall direct and indirect CO2 emissions are attributed to buildings and the construction industry. This percentage alone is enough to put the sector on the European Union's priority list, which aspires to be the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Within this spirit, urgent climate and environmental-related challenges bring the European Union in the forefront of responding to these needs towards introducing new sustainability strategies that will boost the transformation to a resource efficient and environmentally friendly society. Cultural buildings and the restoration of their historic structures are the epitome of these strategies because of their uniqueness and necessity of their cultural value preservation. Cultural protection rules may be very strict for such buildings, particularly in cases where they not only protect the external appearance of a building but also its dimensions, proportions, and original materials. Among those rules and structures, lighting holds a central point. Adaptive lighting, based on the optimal control and use of natural light, guaranteeing cultural heritage conservation and preventive protection, and recovery of the historical, architectural value. Construction professionals are called to familiarize themselves with such methodologies while also respecting the cultural value of such buildings and listening to the needs of their users. According to the recent Construction Observatory Report and the respective national facts, in Italy, Greece and Poland there are major barriers that are identified in terms of lacking capacity, competences and skills to keep up with the accelerated speed of the building stock restoration movement, and as a result, a lack of preparedness for their various positions as policy leaders, architects, investors, regulators, consultants, motivators, energy providers and suppliers, energy consumers and facilitators.In Italy, for some years now, and especially since the introduction of the ecobonus 110, the Italian legislative framework for building renovation has focused heavily on global thermal renovation, seismic improvement, energy saving and the renovation of building facades. This has an impact on the organisation of construction sites, the work to be carried out and the skills and responsibilities of workers, site managers and team leaders. Adequately in Poland, there is lack of a national long-term renovation strategy while the construction industry is facing staffing problems (an ageing group of skilled workers, a shortage of young workers choosing more financially advantageous job offers, relatively low popularity among young people). Same situation is also met in Greece where there is a severe shortage of skilled labour in the broad construction sector. It seems that the VET system is not yet fit for addressing the current training needs in the renovation and energy efficiency sectors.A neuralgic point to the above professional needs and national contexts within the framework of renovation wave and energy efficiency of the buildings, is the complete absence of the cases of cultural buildings and their value. To this end, the project partners seek to satisfy the need for new curricula within the framework of EU climate change and sustainable lighting by developing the competences of the construction professionals, both blue-collar and white-collar, as they will further acquire new skills and competences in their work environment within the framework of the labor market necessities, coming from the adoption of the recent European policies, i.e., EPBD, Green Deal etc.CultureLights will offer flexible learning opportunities for the target groups in order to grow & gain expertise in a unique field, yielding them to be more competitive in the labor market.<< Objectives >>Cultural buildings and human behavior are linked to environmental issues such as climate change and energy supply. Surpassing the fear of people working in/using cultural buildings linked to the preservation of their value and history is a key element for the work of construction professionals and the overall impact of Renovation wave and the European Climate change strategies.The development of sustainable cultural buildings and the embedding of sustainable features are set to raise awareness of the impact of buildings on the overall natural environment and enable people to positively change their behaviors in terms of environmental and social sustainability in and around their own built environments. Culturelights project aims to support awareness raising about environmental and climate-change challenges, developing green sectorial skills strategies and methodologies of construction and lighting professionals. It focuses mainly on sustainable lighting systems and more specifically, adaptive lighting which also plays the role of a conservation trigger for cultural heritage preventive protection, with the aim of building adaptive reuse. This approach constitutes a tool for sustainable refurbishment, guaranteeing cultural heritage conservation and preventive protection, and recovery of the historical, architectural value. It aims to test innovative practices such as artificial and natural lighting systems within an adaptive re-use of the built environment for both construction and lighting professionals as well as cultural building users, shaping them as agents of change (e.g., save resources, reduce energy use and waste etc.) and enabling behavioral changes for sustainable lifestyles.CultureLights works on a very special and prototype field for the VET industry as, in accordance to partners research during the proposal rafting, such VET training on sustainable lighting systems and more specifically in cultural building, do not exist, at least in the involved countries of Italy, Greece and Poland. To this end, via the design of not one but two VET curricula focusing on both blue-collar and white-collar professional, CultureLights aims to develop flexible, learner-centered VET programmes within the European Renovation wave, destined for the preservation and sustainability of cultural buildings, adjusting also the needs of their users and conserving their value. New educational methodologies and environments will be designed, while sustainable lighting projects will be designed and promoted by the learners and the partnership disseminating the curricula to the VET sector working with construction and lighting professionals.Within the above context, “Culture Lights” aims at shaping the knowledge of both Blue-collar and White-collar construction professionals (see below section) working/about to work in renovation activities of cultural buildings with a specific focus on the design and installation of sustainable lighting systems while also preserving the cultural value of the buildings (Objective 1). Within the same axis, the project further aims at enhancing the interaction between renovation construction professionals and cultural building employees and users (Objective 2), encouraging sustainable behaviors and lifestyles via the exchange of ideas and views on sustainable conservation of the buildings and energy efficiency strategies (Objective 3).<< Implementation >>Activity .1: Project's Initiation phase and Set UpTask .1.1: Preparation of Project Management Mechanism Activity .2: Administrative & Technical Coordination Task .2.1: Coordination and Reporting Task .2.2: Partners' meetingsActivity .3: Quality Assurance, Monitoring and EvaluationTask .3.1: Development of Monitoring and Evaluation SystemTask .3.2: Delivery of the Monitoring and Evaluation SystemActivity .4: Dissemination & Exploitation PlanTask .4.1: Development of a dissemination & exploitation plan Task .4.2: Development of Dissemination Material & activitiesTask .4.3: Events Organization & DeliveryOutput ResultsΟ 1. Structuring and shaping sustainable lighting as preventive conservation of cultural buildings within the European renovation wave Activity 1.1: Interaction activities between construction professionals and users of cultural buildingsTask 1.1.1: Conduction of interaction workshops that target construction professionals and users of cultural buildings about renovation wave and cultural buildings Task 1.1.2: Conduction of working workshops that targets construction professionals about sustainable lighting in cultural buildingsActivity 1.2: Identification and Engagement of construction workers for CultureLightsTask 1.2.1: Online/Offline approach for Construction workers' participation in the project Ο 2. Development & Delivery of “Culture Lights” program for optimum lighting renovation of cultural buildings Activity 2.1: Development of CultureLights Curricula on sustainable lighting methodologies in cultural buildings Task 2.1.1: Design of Training Curriculum/ Courses and pedagogic methodologyTask 2.1.2: Design and development of Platform supporting blended learningTask 2.1.3: Organizing and uploading training materialsActivity 2.2: Development of CultureLights Curriculum on sustainable lighting methodologies in cultural buildings for blue collar workers Task 2.2.1: Preparation of a portfolio of training material Activity 2.3: Development of CultureLights Curriculum on sustainable lighting methodologies in cultural buildings for white collar workers Task 2.3.1: Preparation of a portfolio of training material Activity 2.4: Delivery of CultureLights Training Task 2.4.1: Delivery of the ""Culture Lights"" training programTask 2.4.2 Delivery of sustainable lighting projects by construction professionalsTask 2.4.3: Delivery of training evaluation & fine-tuneΟ 3. Cultural sustainable buildings as drive lever for sustainable behaviors Activity 3.1 Exploitation & Policy recommendations Task 3.1.1: Organisation of countries' roundtables Task 3.1.2: Drafting and Communicating the Policy RecommendationsMultiplier eventsE1-E9: Extensive dissemination & exploitation Events<< Results >>R1. A study presenting the interaction activities between construction and lighting professionals with cultural building users about renovation, sustainable lightning, cultural value and conservation, aiming to enhance the relation between designers and users about the re-use of cultural built environment (O1). R2. 2 VET curricula for the development of sustainable lighting systems in cultural buildings: one for blue-collar & one for white-collar workers building knowledge on the use of artificial and natural lighting in cultural buildings (O2). R3. Sustainable lighting projects at local level by the trained white-collar professionals (O2). R4. Policy recommendations on the effective use of renovation wave strategies and their impact on cultural buildings (O3)Regarding the overall CultureLights activities, the respective results include:•At least 90 Construction and lighting professionals participated in the 2 VET curricula on sustainable lighting systems, who will also be introduced to innovative learning systems and digital tools. •At least 150 construction professionals and cultural building users would have been engaged in interaction workshops and discussed about renovation activities in cultural buildings, sustainable lighting possibilities and sustainable behaviors as well as what skills are lacking and what skills are needed in order to improve cultural buildings stock lighting potential. • Raise awareness of relevant stakeholders about sustainable lighting systems with specific focus on cultural buildings, through raise awareness material, events and further engagement with project activities. Transfer of knowledge to the subject matter, along with increased potential for behavior change towards an energy efficient pathway in the building sector that better responds to current, emerging and growing needs for transition to a resource efficient and circular economy. •Increased capacity building of the VET system though integrating innovative learning resources and efficient digital tools for delivering VET towards forward looking and future oriented needs of the building sector to meet the environmental and climate goals challenges. • Tight bonds between the consortium partners, VET stakeholders and stakeholders of the cultural building, light efficiency, and the construction sector. •3 round tables organized in national perspective that led to the drafting of Policy Recommendation on the effective use of renovation wave strategies and their impact on cultural buildings.A.The construction professionals (blue & white-collar) will:oAcquire in depth understanding of the sustainable lighting and renovation concepts within the framework of EPBD, Green Deal and Renovation wave policies as they apply in their countries and around EUoUpgrade their skills necessary to contribute to the sustainable renovation of lighting systems of the cultural building stock oUnderstand the needs of existing cultural building stock to be renovated without sacrificing its value within existing energy performance standards.oIncrease communication and opinion exchange with their clients – cultural building users, facilitating their work B.Cultural Building Users will influence the training curricula design as the points raised during the study will be taken into consideration. The impact for cultural users will be: a. they will have the opportunity to exchange views with construction professionals and influence them towards not only renovating a cultural building but preserving its value at the same time, resulting to their better communication and b. they will be informed about sustainable existing techniques when renovating a cultural building leading to sustainable behaviors.oVET educator providers improve and increase the quality of vocational trainings through tested and optimized high-quality learning tools andoIncrease professional competence: ability to address sustainable lighting as a new field of teaching"

<< Objectives >>BuildOffsiteEU has addressed to adapt VET to the needs of the labour market in the construction industry and innovate VET implementation to face the environmental challenges. It leads to re-skilling the workforce for the transition to industrialized construction (off-site) designing a training pathway to bridge the gap between old and new skills and competences and setting a training path to reinforce the VET offer to achieve the environmental sustainability goals in EU.<< Implementation >>The activities in BuildOffsiteEU are aimed at managing it technically and financially according to the rules of Erasmus+ programme, developing products and bringing them closer to companies, VET providers, trainers, VET centres and potential clients of industrialised construction industry and public in general in Italy, Slovenia, Spain, North Macedonia and Greece.<< Results >>A partnership of VET providers, business associations, research centres, and a cluster related to construction sector has achieved products (Interactive offsite training path, Digital skills map, set of e-tools to inform on benefits of sustainable construction to companies and customers to face environmental challenges) and outcomes: to reinforce VET quality in the construction industry to improve the image of modern, innovative, digitised and green sector.

<< Objectives >>The project aims to support awareness raising of key stakeholders in sustainable pathways for mitigating climate change transition risks of the construction sector. The project anticipates to develop green sectoral skills and competences in the area of sustainable building materials, through introducing future-oriented and innovative curricula and learning practices tailored to the needs of learners, enabling sustainable behavioural changes in line with the New European Bauhaus initiative.<< Implementation >>•Desk research for investigating sustainable approaches for building materials•National and transnational interaction roundtables with key stakeholders from the construction industry and the VET sector•Development of the Sustainable Building Materials Curricula provided in an E-learning environment•Training Activity: Transnational capacity building of Building Maters training ambassadors•Sustainable Building Materials Demonstration sessions/ Webinars•Awareness raising outreach campaig<< Results >>The project will build capacity and raise awareness in sustainable building materials, responding to the emerging material and prices crises in the construction sector, along with the promotion of sustainable behaviours and approaches, for mitigating climate change transition risks of the sector. It will result in modernising VET by accommodating green sectoral training offers and boost local, national and transnational sustainable alliances, facilitating knowledge transfer and joint actions.

"<< Background >>Digi-CVET is a direct response to the changing needs in work life, where in the near future approximately 9 out of 10 jobs will require at least simple but up to advanced digital skills and competences according the factsheet/infographic ""The Digital Skills Gap in Europe"" by the European Commission. The work life requirements are frequently followed by a change in VET, be it a change to a more digital orientation in VET-offers in general or where the European Skills Agenda calls upon ""building resilience to react to crisis based on lessons learnt from COVID"". This project intends moreover to establish a CVET culture in the lifelong learning process which will be oriented to digital aspects more and more. This will lead to a VET, which is more resilient, more innovative and more flexible. All this copes with the Osnabrück Declaration in which is declared to change VET to (digital) labour market needs as well as to offer modern digital VET. Digi-CVET will establish a sustainble European meeting point for VET as it will develop concrete CVET on short distance and will integrate more existing digital CVET on the middle and long distance due to a low threshold technical solution (ILIAS) which allows target groups to access, operate and study based on their individual language. The Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP) underlines this in its 1. priority ""Fostering the development of a high-performing digital education ecosystem"" when ""...support digital transformation plans at all levels of VET through cooperation project"". The Digi-CVET focus on emerging technologies in VET is coping with DEAP 2. priority ""...to include AI (also AR) and data related skills and support development of AI/AR leaning resources for [...] VET organisations..."" and it particularly calls upon ""...target advanced digital skills development through steps such as extending the digital opportunity trainingship to VET learners and offer professional development opportunities for teachers, trainers and other VET-staff"" Not least this project follows the recommendations of the Swiss University Institut (""Eidgenössisches Hochschulinstitut - EHB""), which states in its paper ""Transversal competences for a insecure digital future"" that digital transversal competences will support VET because they will have an effect in the interaction with professional skills. Moreover it says that comptences are transversal, when learners can adapt them in different settings and hence, when there is a horizontal building up of (digital) knowledge. This is exactly what Digi-CVET pursues.Italy is lagging behind in EU when it comes to digital skills: fifth last in the ranking of digital skills within EU, with over 50% of the active population lacking it, says a report presented in February 2021 by the EU Court of Auditors. According to Unioncamere (the Italian Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture), to work in companies in Italy, digital skills are required for 7 out of 10 hires, equal to 3.2 million workers. Yet 28.9% of these profiles, or about 940 thousand job positions, are difficult to find due to inadequacy or a small number of candidates. The result is often a lack of digital skills for SMEs.A report (March 2021) from the Walloon employment agency indicates that the COVID crisis accelerates the digital transition and generates an increase in the need for digital skills in Belgium (https://www.leforem.be/MungoBlobs/1391531427687/20210325_Analyse_Un_an_apres_le_debut_de_la_crise_de_la_Covid_19.pdf). The Walloon Digital Agency also mentions in its 2020 Barometer that the digital maturity of Walloon companies has progressed between 2018 and 2020. However, while many indicators are positive, there is still significant progress to be made by companies, particularly in terms of online business strategy (https://www.digitalwallonia.be/fr/publications/entreprises2020).The IT and BE situation represents similar ratios in project partners countries.<< Objectives >>This project aims at achieving 6 main targets:1) Digital CVET course offer how target groups (EQF 4 and up) can appreciate initial training in construction (IVET) with digital optional elements. This should lead to a higher attractivity targeting youngster for job in construction being modern, innovative and future leading. This will open up means to cope with the tighter competition for talents on the labour market or in the transition period between school and work.2) Development of a digital course to build up horizontal knowledge in digital communication with focus on construction needs in CVET. This includes branch specific learning platforms, data security requirements among construction stakeholders, netiquette among branch staff, proper use of social media. This will be linked to ""DigComp 2.1: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens with eight proficiency levels and examples of use"". There will be also a basic introduction to the commucation aspects among involved actors to adapt BIM.3) Digi-CVET will develop a CVET learning module related to digital collaboration with respects to clouds. What roles do clouds have in the joint use of internet, intranet, extranet and / or BIM. There will be a focus on the Common Data Environment (CDE) as the main collaboration tool in BIM to exchange data among BIM-project staff; teaching roles and responsibilities as well as modes and data format of BIM collaboration like data access, data management, data documentation.4) Main ""emerging technologies"" like Augmented Reality and Building Information Modelling will be subject to a new CVET learning offer in terms of defining the significance of them in the (near) future, a basic and practicle support for learners what these are and why they will become important in this branch, use cases to outline what is really meant with these and estimations about necessary investment in devices, software and staff.5) This project will not least support target groups, who mostly stem from the middle management in SMEs or are entrepreneurs themselves, in making use of digital aspects for improving their Employer Brand (EB). EB is or can become a driver to attract and retain appropriate staff in SMEs, which face severe problems to compete for qualified staff with a) big construction companies and b) other branches. Target groups can be offered a CVET with the upcoming results of the ERASMUS+ project ""Employer Branding"", which is a exchange of experience project, which does not develop concret result, but could be used as the base to develop the very result here.6) No. 6 will aggregate the the target 1-5 on a tailor-made technical platform - ILIAS. This technical application will be developed as a responsive tool with specific dedication to the construction branch, predominantly. From the beginning of the project this development will be oriented to what will be developed in terms of CVET contents and hence it will be edited and customized accordingly. This ILIAS platfrom will be develop to continue using it after the project duration in order to further enrich it with more ""life"".A more global description of envisaged achievements shows that some main deficits in construction, at least a cut-set in the project partner countries, will be addressed with Digi-CVET. Improving sector based digital communication/collaboration, the improvement of the sector image by appreciating VET and supporting SMEs to be more attractive for staff in reach as well as demonstrating two future requirements when emerging technologies will get a more significant importance will cope with the need for upskilling target groups with modern transversal digital competences.<< Implementation >>There will be following activities to be implemented:1) developments: the project will develop 5 CVET course contents with several sub-sections (preliminary in PPT-format) each as outlined here above and in the results section in a initial rough version (R1); R1 will be developed by project partners 1-5 and will be assessed/evaluated in the later stage of the R1-period of months 1-9 as well as at the 2. International Project Meeting (IPM); R1 will the ground for development of guidelines for content developers by partner 6 who will also develop an initial ILIAS customizing. This will be followed in the development of result 2, which consists of the development of supporting materials for courses like FAQs, Multiple Choice quizes, practical use cases, helpful media, useful references and other resources. Next to this - on the technical base - there will be the development of a VOOC-structure (Vocational Open Online Course) which later on will host the PPTs from R1 and transform them into an interactive and vivid learning context. P6 will also develop technical ILIAS manuals for VET-trainers/lecturers and learners. Not least the structure for the LTTAs will be developed by P6. Result 2 will be a technical VOOC with contents in English language. The development of R3 will incorporate the results of the LTTAs and following this the development of country specific CVET packages with proper supporting documents. The VOOC will be edited onto the ILIAS platform with multilingual access. There will also be a development of badges for the later on CVET users and some tracking opportunities for trainers/lecturers.2) monitoring/technical adjustment: The entire development of R1-3 is a permanent alternating monitoring of content and technique. Reason why, is the need to avoid developments on both sides, which might not fit to each other or might not be subject to a mutual and manageable problem. Hence, P 1-5 and P 6 will have a permanent mutual monitoring of necessities and feasibilities in order not to step into any trap that the content does not fit the form or vice versa.3) The LTTAs will be a crucial step in the mature phase of the project as to simulate a real learning / training situation with staff outside the project. This will all still be realized in English language at two venues at the same date and time. 1. LTTA at Krefeld / DE with partners 1, 3 and 6 and 2. LTTA at Vicenza / IT with partners 2, 4 and 5 (plus P6 virtually). Both LTTAs will have the same schedule and will both be monitored by the technical project partner (in presence in Krefeld, and virtually connected to Vicenza from Krefeld). As it will be defined in the schedule of both the LTTAs there will be distant commucinaction and collaboration of both groups throughout this day. The results of the LTTAs will support the final stage in the project (development of R3)4) technical customizing/support: these activities concentrate of the implementation of a user centred application with multilingual access and easy applicability. The early and continuing monitoring of content development aims at a technical development that is of low-threshold for CVET users and CVET-trainers/lecturers alike in order to raise the acceptance of the target groups. The technical customizing will be as to make use of Digi-CVET-ILIAS beyond the project time frame. This should enable project partners but also more CVET-suppliers of proved quality to enrich this platform with country/language specific CVET-offers. In the long run Digi-CVET activities will implement a selected CVET-platform based on the open source ILIAS technique which should serve the European Educational Space.<< Results >>There will be quite some outcomes in and beyond the project duration as an intensified networking among partners, which will put on a more formal basis as the ILIAS Digi-CVET platform is intended to be maintained after the project in order to establish a European CVET platform for customers from European counrtries getting (self-) trained in various construction related digital topics and furthermore get accostumed to emerging digital technique like AR, later also VR, BIM and other assisting technologies or simulations of interactions between humans and machines.Another output will be that not only CVET customers will be upskilled in digital terms but also project partners´ staff in the project as well as other internal and external CVET staff of project partners might use Digi-CVET on ILIAS.Digi-CVET itself can proof a good practice how to establish a cross-country multilingual and digital sector specific CVET platform with a perspective to get richer in quantity and quality after the project.There will be 3 formal project results plus a Learning, Teaching and Training Activity which will contribute to achieve the overall result which is a ILIAS platform to support CVET of middle management construction staff with transversal digital skills and competence in order to properly respond to current and future professional and sector specific digital needs.The 1. result will pave the way for no. 2 and 3 as it aims to achieve course contents for 5 important CVET topics: appreciating initial VET in constrcution by digital means, attracting staff for construction SMEs by digital means in Employer Branding, emerging new technologies like BIM and AR, proper communicating in digital construction CVET settings and eventually collaborating in digital construction contexts e.g. a Common Data Environment like an instrument in BIM. The rough development of these course contents in English language will be accompanied by a technical ILIAS -staff monitoring to ensure that contents will be later on (result 2) designed to fit into the technical platform; interface development by partner 6. There will also be the development of a technical ILIAS guideline for editors of contents. Result 1 development will incorporate a mutual assessment and adjustment of contents among partners at the 2. IPM. The technical partner will develop a multilingual digital supporting structure for target groups how to later on use Digi-CVET.The 2. result will develop additional and supporting instruments for users to get accostomed to digital CVET, i.e. FAQs, Multiple Choice quizes, use cases and good practices, proper and useful media selections, digital catalogues of references and eventually other digital resources. The technical partner will develop the structure for the VOOC based on result 1 (vocational open online course) and the interface to integrate the contents and supporting instruments into the ILIAS structure. Aim is to allow a low-threshold access and easy navigation inside the new offer; multilingual technical approach. There will also be developments of guidelines for CVET-trainers/lectures and users; first in EN later on in all partner languages. The technical partner will also develop and design the LTTA at the final stage of result 2 with a digital moderating, digital monitoring and digital evaluating structure.The 3. result will eventually develop country and language specific digital CVET packages with then an integration of all contents onto ILIAS and a final customizing of ILIAS for Digi-CVET requirements with an option for using and enriching it beyond the project duration."