Considering that energy management has become a high important issue in future Europe and that there’s a huge lack of trained people to meet the energy management needs, it’s a must to develop a clear, transparent, transnational and crossbording e-training. As SMEs represent more than 9O% of the enterprises and more than 70% of the employment in the participating countries, it’s good to meet these enterprises in their needs for qualified energy managers. The project EEMS4SME or European Energy Management Specialists for SMEs will therefore develop an open training and innovative digital platform all over Europe. A lifelong learning digital environment will be established in the field of energy management to answer the huge lack of global training and vision for energy management, which can thus create employment all over Europe. This innovative e-learning platform is ideal to support individuals in acquiring and developing key competences to aim employability and personal development in a fast changing technical and environmental world. The training will support the development of national and cross-country sectoral skills strategies and will support permeability between different training pathways all over Europe. It will tackle all discrimination in gender, age and race as individuals can learn whenever they want, which is ideal to combine work and training. An international digital training with similar understanding will cross the borders of different regions, cultures and legislations.The transparency and comparability of energy management qualifications and learning outcomes will support labour mobility and facilitate transitions between training and the world of work in energy management all over Europe and will thus create employment chances for women, disabled, unemployed graduates in the energy management field, which is an investigation in Europe’s future.In the strategic partnership a good balance is reached between reliable expertise in education and training in energy efficient technologies for students and for adults with the university Thomas More Kempen – Knowledge Centre for Energy (Belgium), the balikesir sustainable development association (Turkey) and the Association Ecoserveis (Spain) on the one hand and partners with good knowledge of the needs of SMEs as the Chamber of Installation Specialists in Bulgaria (CISB), and the Chamber of Commerce of Padua (Italy). All partners have experience in developing training programs and in qualification and re-qualification of technicians and experts. Furthermore the partnership represents different climate conditions spread all over EU and partners have links with EU wide networks to disseminate the projects results. The exchange of best practices and the merge of different insights and experiences from partners all over Europe will guarantee a good common training program for energy management to meet the needs of many SMEs in Europe.In the course of this project, training activities will be carried out, respectively : Train the trainer, Energy Management Specialist training program and e-learning modules. The train the trainer course is transnational, will take place in Turkey during 5 days and is meant for 2 trainers of each participating country. It will be given by highly certified experts in energy management. The target is double : the different national training modules will be reviewed in order to decide how they will be processed in one global online platform and the trainers will be able to disseminate the training in energy management in their country in the second phase as a test for the online course. This second training is meant for SME staff to become energy management specialists. By an e-learning trajectory and a contact seminar the participants will be able to share their experiences, so that all the experiences can be discussed in a transnational project meeting to optimise the e-learning modules. In this respect, Energy Management System Training of SMEs personnel should be considered as a key target. For the process of dissemination, e-learning modules will be developed and will help the program to reach a wider audience. In the third phase at least 500 people will be trained during the project time with the global e-learning module for energy management specialists.The expected results will be realized is 2 dimensions : national and transnational.A national energy management structure will be available to implement in the facilities. (ISO 50001) and a certified expertise will establish sustainable energy management in the SMEs. A transnational digital platform for adults all over Europe who wish to specialize in energy management and energy efficiency, will be available. An inventarisation of exchanges of best practices in all units of the organisations will reduce energy consumption and production costs and will help to reduce emissions. This project will offer an effective way to mitigate global warming.

"CONTEXTThe evolution of European industries is supported by digital solutions and is depicted in what is so-called ""Industry 4.0"". A survey conducted by the European Social Fund on the monitoring of professional needs of industry reveals a mismatch between demand and supply of skilled workforce. Businesses demand workers specialized in digital skills tailored for the industrial sector. It is necessary to introduce VET programs able to combine specialized sector expertise with a set of e-leadership and ICT skills.Industry has been working closely with schools, universities, HEI providers to set up innovative programmes to supply people with key skills necessary for the digital transformation. Nevertheless, VET is yet to develop a link with the industrial sector. MAIN AIM Involve the industrial sector in the transformation of VET systems, in order to meet the need of digital skills consistent with the technological developments in industries SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES • Investigate skill shortages in the 4.0 industry • Promote VET initiatives on digital skills targeting workers through mixed partnerships • Design training courses to update and requalify workers of the industrial sector, focusing on the uptake of digital skills • Foster training initiatives for entrepreneurs to make them understand the potential of ICT in traditional industries • Provide e-leadership skills to workers and managers that will lead to better employment and career opportunities • Foster the recognition of ICT skills in the traditional industrial sector through the use of ECVET TARGETS REACHED • 103 trainees (80 workers of traditional industrial sectors + 23 students) • 158 workers, managers / entrepreneurs of traditional industrial sectors • 250 stakeholders • 13 VET trainers • 8 organizations partners of the Consortium • 18 staff members of the Consortium • Indirect: ca. 100.000 people (Total people reached via dissemination activitities: events, website visits, etc) METHODOLOGIES SKILLS-SET AND TRAINING TOOLBOX: based on Individual interviews, reviewing existing documents, discussions with SMEs’ steering groups, ROUNDTABLES: guided interviews and joint discussion with stakeholders ECVET PATH AND DIDACTIC MODEL: 36.6CC have created ECVET guidelines points relevant transfer system paths to be transferred to all partners. The RESTART consortium participated in a three session workshop about ECVET, integrating ECVET principals in the development of training courses. TRAINING TOOLBOX TEST AND SHORT TERM JOINT STAFF TRAINING ACTIVITY - Both courses made use of several online methods in addition to practical workshops and face to face lessons. We followed a five-step approach: a) Identify Learners’ skills requirements; b) Identify and select the set of tools required to perform the task defined; c) Design the procedures for deploying the selected tools to carry out the task; d) Teach learners/trainers on how to use selected tools, Guide learners to perform the task with the tools; e) Evaluate learning outcome and update learner’s portfolio. MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE TRAINING TOOLBOX: Evaluation tools such as focus groups and SWOT analysis were conducted along the project. The training toolbox developed was evaluated in two stages, firstly by the trainers of the consortium (Activity C1) and secondly, another evaluation was carried out (Activity O2/A4) by means of surveys and discussion groups with the participants in the test, both trainers and trainees. MAIN ACTIVITIES: O1: DIGITAL TRAINING SKILLS SET FOR 4.0 INDUSTRIES O1A1 Conduction of a Training Needs Analysis O1A2 Roundtables for “Digital Entrepreneurs” O1A3 Elaboration of a Skill-Set For 4.0 Industries O1A4 Elaboration of an Ecvet Path and Didactic Model O1A5 Dissemination of O1 O2: CURRICULUM / FRAMEWORK FOR VET IN INDUSTRIES 4.0 O2A1 Preparation of Training Material for the Toolbox O2A2 Selection of Participants O2A3 Test of the Training Toolbox O2A4 Monitoring and Evaluation of the Toolbox Test O2A5 Dissemination of O2 C1 – SHORT TERM JOINT STAFF TRAINING EVENT IN MALTA. September 2018 E1-E5 - MULTIPLIER EVENTS IN ITALY, MALTA, GREECE, SPAIN AND SCOTLAND, MOST RELEVANT TANGIBLE RESULTS are: Training Needs Report Digital training Skill-set for 4.0 Industries Package of ECVET Documents and didactic model 55 hours of training contents Toolbox Test Evaluation Report Final version of “Digital Skills for Industry 4.0” RESTART Training Toolbox 36 hours of training for trainers Project Website, Facebook page and visual identity"