Information about participation in the 2020-1.1.2-PIACI-KFI-2020-00099 application
Beneficiary name: Training360 Kft., Mocca Negra Food Industry and Trade Ltd. Mocca Negra, Mocca Negra Information Technology Services Ltd., Óbuda University
Project Title: Development of learning profile-based digital skills development methodologies and training tools
Contracted amount of support: 793 873 908 HUF
Aid rate: 74,24%
Planned completion date of the project: 31.12.2022.
Description of the project
The emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic in Hungary, as in the rest of the world, has brought online employment and online training to the forefront. For participants and companies alike, it has become important to replace face-to-face classroom-based trainings with online trainings to help workers develop both knowledge and skills.
With the advance of robotics and automation, as in almost all other sectors of industry, people working in different industries need different skills to succeed in the labour market. According to Deloitte's 2018 analysis, 57% of jobs will be at risk by 2023 due to technological advances.
According to the World Economic Forum's Spring 2019 forecast, the most important skills for workers in the coming years will be, in order, creativity, emotional intelligence, analytical thinking, active learning, decision-making, interpersonal communication, leadership skills and intercultural intelligence.
Industry experience shows that face-to-face, classroom-based training is the most effective way of developing more complex knowledge and skills, but also the most resource-intensive (training fees, time away from work, travel time, logistics). In particular in industrial contexts, the majority of skill trainings is delivered in a classroom environment, with virtual training only appearing in complex machine operator tasks.
The role of adult education, skills development programmes and the necessary competences is also highlighted in the VET 4.0 ITM document: 'we do not need fewer people, but people with different tasks and in different circumstances in higher added value jobs. ... This will also change the expectations of competences: there will be an increasing emphasis on both creativity and human cooperation. There is a need to strengthen the knowledge society".
This requires appropriate training in self-awareness, interpersonal communication, leadership, mentoring and other skills development. However, it is now clear that there is a need to move much more strongly towards online education in these areas, not only because of resource requirements, but also because of the risk of epidemics. The Digital Workforce Programme highlights the need to develop a demand-driven, output-led adult learning system with a focus on online training (Ministry of Information and Technology, 2019. Vocational Training 4.0).
However, a synthesis analysis of academic research has clearly shown that participants in online adult learning face internal (e.g. time constraints, lack of basic skills), external (e.g. lack of organisational support, technical problems) and programme-based (e.g. inadequate teaching tools, materials, insufficient communication and interaction) challenges. Only 20% of the problems encountered were linked to external conditions: 47% were due to internal problems, while 33% were related to the educational programme. To address these problems in a complex way, adult learning needs to understand the learning profile of the participant and adapt the training programme, the teaching topics and the curriculum accordingly, and to continuously help participants to solve their internal problems.
Our aim is to develop an online training methodology which, as a product, will be presented as a web-based service for trainers, helping them to optimise their online training and to develop their own training competences, taking the specific characteristics of the participants into account. This methodology focuses primarily on the area of skills development, but can be used across the entire adult learning segment to optimise and tailor training and thus improve efficiency.