PROJECT "MASTERY - MICRO CREDENTIALS RELIABILITY UNLEASHING GREEN ECONOMY" ERASMUS + PROGRAMME

KRIB is a partner in the MASTERY project – a project on the reliability of micro-certificates to reveal the green economy. On January 11th and 12th, an event was held in Rome at the Italian Office of the European Parliament and the Italian Representation of the European Commission, marking the official launch of the Erasmus+ Forward Looking “MASTERY” project.

SFC Sistemi Formativi Confindustria Italy leads the partnership, which consists of 8 organizations from Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, Belgium and Finland. The partnership includes industry representatives, education and training organizations, research and innovation organizations for business and the Association of Public Administrations for Sustainability. The partnership integrates a high level of expertise in the development of pathways to a sustainable economy, the development of policies for active market employment, public-private cooperation for environmental innovation, representing a network capable of directly managing the impact of the project and expanding the involved network to create new alliances for the global green economy.

The MASTERY project focuses on “micro-credentials”, certificates related to green skills that can respond to the need to update and retrain professional profiles. It operates in close cooperation with the worlds of research and innovation, education and business, as well as public administration. MASTERY has the following objectives:

• Exploring the high potential of micro-credentials to accelerate retraining processes and update profiles already active in the labor market.
• Defining a methodology for developing micro-credentials that can meet the common needs of new business competencies, defining standardized processes for the recognition of micro-credentials through a shared path among policy makers, participants in the vocational training and education system and the public and private ecosystem.
• Development of courses and certificates for 12 green competences in micro-credentials to anticipate measures to combat the need for skills that the environmental transition has already caused and that may become permanent in the coming years, taking into account the main demographic dynamics in EU.
• Improving the capacity of the vocational training system for inter-institutional dialogue, the joint design of competences, knowledge and the development of training paths that meet the needs of the labor market and individual growth.
• Development of solutions for issuing transnationally validated micro-credentials in the five countries participating in the MASTERY project to support the green transition.

The sectors where the processes of definition, development and transparency of MASTERY micro-certificates for the green transition will be experimented are: agri-food, construction, logging and production through the development of sustainable management skills.

The two-day program of the event included the participation of two important speakers:

Ildiko Mazar, NTT DATA, coordinator of the European Digital Learning Credentials Team, presented an extensive framework on the topic of "digital credentials", the main aspects and characteristics of digital learning credentials (EDC) and their influences on the European Learning Model (ELM).

Francesca Callene, Lazio Innova, coordinator of the “LABORATORI DI MICROINNOVAZIONE” project, joined as an associate partner of the project. The presentation allowed initial sharing of skills in which the construction sector invests for sustainable development.

The meeting concluded with the six-month project plan, with partners led by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa, to develop a framework for emerging competences for the green transition in MASTERY's target sectors.