<< Background >>The project has been defined on base of following three needs. The project consortium of experienced partners, when some partners participate in the Automotive Skills Alliance and others are recognized and respected experts in Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability, has the skills, knowledge and expertise to reflect defined needs. The project addresses to:1. A NEED FOR INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PRACTICES IN PANDEMIC PERIODSToday's world threatened by the global covid-19 pandemic has shown the importance of digital forms of teaching. Day-to-day teaching has shifted to the online environment. Digitization of education has started playing one of the most important roles how to ensure massive education to be continuous. If digitization should be supposed successful in the field of education, it will be extremely important to create courses and trainings providing high quality education with verifiable information based on scientific knowledge and experience. MOOCs are one of the tools that can offer quality online education to the general public. When prepared by specialized professional groups composed of experts and education specialists, they meet high requirements for the teaching of high quality. MOOCs offer trainings to be studied from the home comfort, self-paced, at the same time, they are able to ensure the quality of trainings in terms of expertise and didactics. 2. A NEED FOR SUSTAINABLE APPROACH IN ALL INDUSTRIAL SECTORS IMPORTANT FOR THE EU ECONOMYThe important part of the sustainable approach is to understand the impacts of products or services during their entire life cycle. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is defined as the systematic analysis of the potential environmental impacts of products or services within the entire life cycle. The Automotive industry forms a significant part of the European economy. The sustainability of this sector is one of the most important prerequisites for its further development. The understanding of the potential environmental impacts and overall sustainable approach is a part of the strategy in the Automotive/mobility ecosystem. The automotive industry is committed to environmental goals, including carbon neutrality by 2050. The awareness and further practical usage of LCA is growing its importance within the automotive industry.3. A NEED FOR UP/RE SKILLING ACTIVITIES OF WORKERS IN AUTOMOTIVEThe shift to green mobility as well as following the rapid technological development causes the unprecedent transformation of the Automotive Industry and overall ecosystem restructuralization. This results in the need for massive support of up-/re-skilling activities of current and future workforce, including future green automotive/mobility workers such as university students, early stage researchers/Ph.D. students, secondary students, current automotive/mobility workers and employees including managers and engineers as well as lecturers, trainers, teachers who are dedicated to teaching new skills for Automotive. The awareness and further practical usage of LCA is growing its importance within the automotive industry. The need for the training focused on the sustainability topic, including waste management, was also identified by project DRIVES (www.project-drives.eu), as the Blueprint for strategic sectoral cooperation on skills in Automotive sector.<< Objectives >>By the project implementation, we want to achieve following objectives:- To prepare an innovative MOOC course (MOOC aLIFEca) with practical examples, covering the area of sustainable approach in Automotive industry, including Life Cycle Assessment which training content structure and skills coverage will be based on the identified needs from the strategic DRIVES project and further consulted in details with sectoral stakeholders to understand the latest skill needs and specific requirements in Automotive. The training structure will follow highest quality standards and will have massive impact on target groups because during the project duration in the pilot phase the course will be moderated in order to have direct contact with pilot participants and multiply the impact and also gather further feedback. - To widely spread the MOOC aLIFEca to be available free of charge to everybody interested for MOOC courses and offer innovative and interactive training course delivery. The training and project results will be shared directly to Automotive Skills Alliance partnership as Pact for Skills for Automotive-Mobility Sector.- To mapped the MOOC aLIFEca to EU-wide database of training and education courses offered towards Automotive Ecosystem resulting in increase the number of up/re skilled workers in automotive. After successful course completion digital badges (micro-credentials) will be offered as recognition of skills levels achievement.<< Implementation >>The project implementation will be carried out in 3 parallel phases including several project activities resulting in defined project results and outcomes: PHASE of COURSE PREPARATIONThis phase relates to the preparation of MOOC aLIFEca supplemented with aLIFEca guide. It includes activities such as analysis of automotive labour market requirements, design of course structure and materials development in total period of 8 months. During this phase, MOOC Trial will be designed that will be used during the second phase which will be pilot one. The phase of course implementation will last next 13 months to the end of project, after the testing and piloting of MOOC Trial, aLIFEca MOOC will be improved and upgraded according to the aLIFEca MOOC evaluation on base which its upgrade will be carried out. PHASE of TRAINING and LEARNINGThis phase will present 3 months of intensive training and learning of developed course Trial MOOC during which MOOC Training for project consortium staff and National MOOC Workshops for the wide target group will be arranged. The MOOC Trial will be tested and moderated. The events of this phase will be an opportunity to get feedback to complete the preparation of the course in all its perfection. The phase will be evaluated to define its strengths and weaknesses, on base which the course will be upgraded and finalized.PHASE of COURSE CERTIFICATION and MAPPINGThis phase is planned to take 6 months. It is very important one because it concludes the whole process of aLIFEca MOOC development and make the course to be international and exceptional. In this phase, the framework for aLIFEca MOOC certification will be designed to enable students gain badges - a certificate confirming the successful graduation from the training. The badges will be possible to provide after completing the entire course, only. The effort will be also devoted to mapping training to the EU-wide database of Automotive Skills Ecosystem to spread the aLIFEca MOOC widely to fulfil its mission to provide possibilities to up/re skill one's competences in view of sustainable automotive. This phase, as same as the whole project, will be closed by Final MOOC Conference (M 24) at the end of the project where the final version of MOOC aLIFEca will be presented together with other project outcomes. The project implementation includes project meetings during all the phases. The Kick-off meeting will be arranged by the coordinator at the beginning of the project (M1). After 7 months of project implementation, Project Meeting at Newton College in Prague will be held to evaluate the phase of the course preparation - discuss the study of requirements and materials for the course development to define the course structure further resulting in MOOC Trial. The training and learning phase will be evaluated by consortium partners at Project Meeting held at Silesian University of Technology in Poland (M 15). The important feedback of pilot training will be discussed for its further development and upgrade. The requirements for the course certification will be defined. Details related to the phase of certification and mapping will be evaluated at Project Meeting arranged by University of Zilina in Zilina (M21).<< Results >>There are defined two main Project Results (PR1, PR2) including several outcomes which have to be accomplished:PR1- aLIFEca guide: A guide for MOOC aLIFEce defining the requirements of stakeholders for the course, which will enable to define occasions and opportunities for the course specialization to define the structure of the course to reflect the growing need for professionals able to be effectively oriented in up-to date green transport technologies. The guide will present a combination of experiential learning, skills and competence building, while each learning area will focus on sustainable and environmental considered mindset in automotive. The guide will be divided into two following outcomes: PR 1.1 Study on requirements LCA/Job roles (Needs analysis and research)PR 1.2 Training structure and materials (Design of course and trainings)The part of training materials will be divided into several thematic packages with sustainable and LCA topics. The responsibility for the preparation of packages will be determined according to the partners expertise.PR2- MOOC aLIFEca:The MOOC focused on sustainable approach in Automotive, including Life Cycle Assessment will be created by European consortium based on the requirements of the European automotive market. Special attention will be paid to its interactivity, using simulation software applicable in sustainable automotive and case studies on LCA in new cutting - edge technologies in automotive. The MOOC will be in English and partners languages, self-paced and cross referred to aLIFEca guide. The created course will be free of charge. After successful course completion, the student will receive a certificate and digital badge as recognition of skills levels achievement. The course will be mapped to EU-wide database of training and education towards Automotive Eco-system. It will be shared directly to Automotive Skills Alliance partnership as Pact for Skills for Automotive -Mobility Sector - covering the whole Europe. The MOOC implementation will be divided into 3 following outcomes:PR 2.1 MOOC Design and Development (Testing, Trial phase, Evaluation, MOOC upgrade)PR 2.2 Certification framework/Digital badge PR 2.3 Mapping of the MOOC aLIFEcaOTHERS- MOOC TrainingThe MOOC Training organized by Spin 360 with aim to share the know-how and best practice among project staff working on its development. The staff will cooperate and simulate the target group. It will test the MOOC Trial. This activity will ensure that MOOC aLIFEca will be considered from different perspectives of various professionals. - National MOOC WorkshopsThe course will be tested and moderated during pilot National MOOC Workshops organized by each consortium partner to have direct contact with a pilot target group and have an immediate feedback. It will thus reflect the target groups perception of the course and in its final form, the course will be precisely tailored to the target groups preferences resulting in an instructive and at the same time, for the target groups, attractive course. The aim of the activity is the recruitment the new participants for the MOOC aLIFEca. The targeted participants will be future green automotive/mobility workers such as university students, early stage researchers/Ph.D. students, young people, then educators, trainers, learners, current automotive/mobility workers and employees including managers and engineers, etc.Small-scale targeted promotional events will be organised in all partner countries. The goal of the multiplier events will be to provide all important information to participants on the Project Results. The working language of each event will be the national language of the respective country and the event will last one day.- Final MOOC ConferenceAt the end of the project, the final conference will be arranged to promote the results of the aLIFEca project after accomplishment of the project implementation and trainings evaluation.