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FORM-AQUA

Federgasacqua	Office International de l'Eau	TECHWARE
FORM-AQUA: a European initiative under the Leonardo Da Vinci Programme

* Contents

• Background
• Objectives
• Work Programme
• Project Achievements
• Results Dissemination
• Further Information

* Background

The water indusry sector in Europe shows different development levels in terms of applied technologies and management approaches (i.e. fragmented undertakings and work methodologies, continuing and initial vocational training level, skills recognition).

With reference to the aforementioned subjects, nowadays some countries are characterized by the strong potential change in this field; at the same time, other countries have already reached a good development level allowing them to propose themselves as leaders in Europe.

Today the water industry sector is aware of the common need of improving the quality of service following customer requests. One of the main factors affecting the quality of service improvement is represented by a proper employee training (either initial or vocational).

In order to contribute effectively to reach this important target, the project is aimed at promoting the efficiency and quality of vocational training in the water industry carrying out a recognition of training needs in the water industry sector through Member States.

* Objectives

Different objectives will be reached during the project life cycle. Particularly, the involved activities will be aimed at obtaining the following main objectives:

• To point out the training and facility needs in the Member States
• To define the current situation and the future evolution about vocational training and adaptation of skills in the water industry sector
• To verify the possibility of integrating and keeping skills and training methodologies homogeneous in the examined countries; improvements in the training fields will be also verified through an exchange of knowledge and training skills all around Europe
• To define the guidelines for vocational training and adaptation of skills in the water indutry sector. The latter could be followed by European Union, national and local institutions in designing future training initiatives.

* Work Programme

The work programme and the involved methodologies will cover the following activities:

• Definition of methodologies and planning of the scheme which will be used for the estimation of training need assuring their homogeneity and comparability
• Assessment of existing training issues and data collection activity to be carried out in five Member States (I, F, B, UK, E)
• Estimation of existing training issues, data analysis and results follow-up
• Training programme definition based on the follow-up of results and keeping into account Italian and Member States needs
• Setup of training needs for different countries, follow-up of results and training programme spreading through the involved Member States

* Project Achievements

During the project life different reports will be prepared as deliverable material. Particularly a first report will be prepared by each involved partner and will include the collected data in terms of:

• main professional skills required
• vocational schools and applied methods
• different needs and different available facilities
• common methodologies of training
• common standard training quality
• professional skills recognizable in every Member State

The contents of the latter will be part of the interim report delivered to the Leonardo Programme during the data analysis phase.

A final report will be prepared by the involved partners including the follow-up results and a programme for their dissemination.

* Results Dissemination

The project follow-up will lead firstly to the general assessment of vocational training needs in five European countries.

These results could be used as the first step for establishing the vocational training giudelines in the water industry helping European Union programmes in designing training policies on a medium/long term basis tailored on national needs.

As said before, during the last project phase a results dissemination step will be carried out. The partnership will cooperate in this activity through the organization of seminars and workshops in different European Union locations either in Member States involved or in other examined States. Seminars and workshop target audiences will include people from European Community Training Institutions.

* Further Information

Contracting Organisation :

Federgasacqua - Federazione Italiana Imprese Pubbliche Gas e Acqua
Dr. Franco Perasso
General Secretary
Piazza Cola di Rienzo, 80
I-00192 Rome
ITALY
Tel.: +39 / 668603560
Fax: +39 / 668603565

Coordinator :

Regional TECHWARE Bureau Italia
c/o AMGA - Via SS. Giacomo e Filippo,7
I-16122 Genova
ITALY
Tel.: +39 / 1083431
Fax: +39 / 108343284
E-mail: bazzuro@linux.it