Project Goals
The main objective of the project is to prepare and set up the higher-level joint VET qualification “Winemaker Specialist”. This qualification will develop a highly skilled and mobile workforce that will meet the needs of sector companies and enhance the quality, relevance and attractiveness of vocational education and training.
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Target Groups
The target groups for this project are:
- Macedonian and Umbrian VET learners (in particular high-unemployed young people and apprentices)
- Winemaking companies
Partners
- Foundation Agro-Centre for Education - FACE (Macedonia)
- Vocational and Educational Training Center - CVET (Macedonia)
- Secondary municipal school ``Koco Racin`` Sveti Nikole (Macedonia)
- Mikei International - Chateau Kamnik (Macedonia)
- Region Umbria (Italy)
- Winery Cantine Lungarotti (Italy)
- Italian Trade Union - UIL PERUGIA (Italy)
Short Description
EU is world-leading wine producer, and socio-economic dimension of European wine sector is very relevant. With a large majority of small producers and family labour force, it employs over 3 million people: about 20% of employment in EU agriculture, and 10% of agricultural production value. Supported by EU policy, wine sector enhances its competitiveness, preserves wine growing best traditions, boosts rural areas, and offers job opportunities (https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/wine_en, www.ceev.eu/about-the-eu-wine-sector).
Despite importance of wine sector, in many European countries and regions lack VET opportunities to get skills required by the market, particularly at higher-level. Macedonian NQF is under construction, still without VET standards in wine sector. Umbrian VET standards (Italian Constitution grants regional competence in VET) not include qualifications for wine sector, while for apprentices national agriculture labour agreement briefly describes a specific low-level profile. In both territories, wine production is a key economic and labour intensive activity, and either show high unemployment rates, particularly for youths.
Macedonian and Umbrian VET providers, qualification authorities, wine sector companies and organisations share these needs and (to increase youth employability, develop highly skilled, qualified and mobile workforce needed by companies, support European joint VET developments, and strengthen VET quality, relevance, attractiveness) cooperate to prepare and set up the post-secondary (EQF 5) joint VET qualification “Winemaker Specialist”.
Building on prior ECVET experiences, they will:
– analyse focused professional/learning field in involved NQF/RQF, and transferable practices for transparency in VET
– design a detailed qualification profile, outlining expected learning outcomes in terms of knowledge, skills and competences in clearly identified units
– establish the joint qualification profile and set up, by MoU ECVET, the cooperation structure to ensure transparency, comparability, quality, mutual recognition
– design a joint curriculum, clarifying training strategy to reach learning outcomes with strong workbased learning component, and supporting learner mobility
– define a joint guideline for learning outcomes assessment, listing specific requirements learners have to comply with to be successful
– support effective integration of joint standards in concerned NQF/RQF.
As wine sector strongly requires higher-level skills, and since qualification integration in NQF/RQF, envisaged impact is relevant on both VET learners employability, and sectoral companies competitiveness, as well as on joint developments in VET in Europe, and overall VET quality, relevance, attractiveness.
The joint VET qualification “Winemaker Specialist” seems therefore have the potential to address the background of high youth unemployment, skills mismatch and shortages as well as the need for higher level skills in wine production sector in European involved territories, and to ensure that VET responds better to labour market needs.
Read more at: https://winevet.eu/