University-Enterprise cooperation for knowledge and skill requirements joint definition M. Carbonaro, GISIG, Genova, IT 25 th September 2014 0 - 2014 Open

University-Enterprise cooperation for knowledge and skill requirements joint definitionM. Carbonaro, GISIG, Genova, IT

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Foreword

GISIG Association is a University – Enterprise Training

partnership founded in 1992 within the former EC COMETT

Programme.

From more than 20 years we operate at European level for

innovation and technology transfer on the GI field, grouping

expertise from universities, companies and users to

promote and develop joint projects.

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GISIG Activity lines

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Projects and Thematic Networks development

Education and Training

Since 1992, for ten years we managed COMETT/Leonardo da Vinci

grants for students/new graduates and staff needing practical

experience and professional up-dating on geo-spatial technologies and

related applications in specific thematic domains.

We were pioneer to apply the EUROPASS Certificate to people on

mobility.

In parallel, we developed since the beginning training courses on GI

application technologies. These activities evolved in a strong joint

university-enterprise cooperation able to agree on shared definition of

skills and competences requirements for new labour market needs in

the GI field.



LINKVIT Leveraging Inspire Knowledge into

Vocational Innovative Training

Leonardo da Vinci projectTransfer of knowledge strand (IT)

www.linkvit.eu


Project aims• LINKVIT deals with “Digital Competence” as defined

in the Key competences for Lifelong Learning- A European Framework.

• Competences in geo-information are crucial in the new European context to be operational in the assignments of the INSPIRE Directive.

• LINKVIT will aim at creating such competences through a set of training modules developed in different European initiatives.

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Project aims

• LINKVIT aims to provide revised training material to support INSPIRE implementation

• Start are the business processes supporting INSPIRE implementation

• To cover the activities within those processes you need certain skills and knowledge

• Define expert / job profiles for which learning paths are

designed

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Target groupsAlready existing learning material is leveraged and reframed to provide end-user oriented modular learning to:

• Employed people to be re-qualified on new competence required by INSPIRE

• Postgraduates, for easier access to GI-labour market with a post-degree specialization

• Professional profiles within public and private sector (technicians and decisions makers)


Learning Paths• How to define the Learning Paths?

1. Take into account the business processes and activities that should be covered ...

2. Work from a more generic level towards a more detailed level (if necessary) ...

3. Based on the definition of what someone should be able to know and do ...

4. To be fine-tuned for each individual when applied in practice ...


INSPIRE processes

• 4 Business Processes• BP1 – Transforming data and metadata• BP2 – Creating and managing access mechanisms• BP3 – Access, bind and use of spatial data (through

services)• BP4 – Managing and reporting INSPIRE

implementation• Job profiles

• INSPIRE Manager (BP4)• INSPIRE Data Expert (BP1)• INSPIRE Service Expert (BP2)• INSPIRE Service Consumer (BP3)


Learning path

• INSPIRE data expert– Assumption 1: no knowledge on data modelling

...– Assumption 2: data management tasks in

hands of one person

IntroData

Specs

IntroData

Specs

IntroINSPIRE

Data Harmonization

Data Validation

Examples

UMLXML GML

Procedures

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...

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3

3

3

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Geographic InformationNeed to Know (GI-N2K)

• The GI-N2K project is built around a network of 31 partners ( 25 countries ) from the academic and non – academic sectors and partners from the GI industry (including Shell ), major GI associations and individual experts.

• GI-N2K aims to answer the question on how the education and vocational training in the domain of GI S&T can match with the actual job requirements in the job market.

• The project analyzes the current market demands with regard to the knowledge and skills and compare them with the current training offer in the GI S&T sector. The existing GI S&T Body of Knowledge is being used as a starting point, updated and brought in line with new technological developments, and with the European perspective in mind.

ERASMUS Network


Geographic InformationNeed to Know (GI-N2K)

• GI-N2K builds upon the existing Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge (GI S&T BoK) that was developed by the American University Consortium for Geographic Information Science , published in 2006 by the Association of American Geographers . The ‘BoK’ will be updated and brought into line with the new technological developments and the European perspective ( e.g. importance of INSPIRE in Europe).

• The renewed BoK will apply an ontological approach and will take the form of a dynamic e-platform (wiki-based format) including tools to use, explore the BoK, to define curricula , training opportunities and courses and to define job profiles.

More info at www.gi-n2k.eu

ERASMUS Network


Assessment of training needs in the water sector


Assessment background has been carried out in the first project phase

Objectives: to help the identification of the eLEANOR training subjects

to validate and further investigate existing training needs of water companies considered in the project

to improve the training in the water sector through the optimisation and standardisation of the learning processes and pathways

to reflect the main demands of skills by EU Directives (water protection, waste water treatment, water supply, storm water management)

Steps


The vocational training needs assessment covered following steps:Water business survey creation of a lists of Business Processes (BPs) and Job Profiles (JPs),validation of the lists by water professionals,assessment of a level of knowledge for each Job Profile,validation of the levels by water professionals,creation of a matrix mapping the training needs in relation with JPs and BPs.


Water business survey extension of the water domain is large in order to precise the different BP and the JP that derives from

them, a better understanding of the water cycle was studied this understanding helped to choose the water uses to work on


Asset Management

Operation of Plants

Geographical Information

Works and Interventions

Public Service Contract Management

Operation of Networks

Measurements

Water Resources Management

Environmental Monitoring

Frames of BP

29 BPs within

classification of urban water uses was done, by identifying the existing water business processes and jobs profiles

Business Process (BP): Collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product (serve a particular goal) for a particular customer or customers. A process is thus a specific ordering of work activities across time and place, with a beginning, an end, and clearly defined inputs and outputs: a structure for action.

Business Processes


Asset Management

Operation of Plants


Works and Interventions


Operation of Networks

Measurements


Environmental Monitoring

Asset ManagementPlanning and Design of New Assets and Plants

WWTP Management Management of Plant MaintenanceDWTP Management

Use of GISMaintenance of GIS

Field Interventions in DW/WW Management Incl. Connections Electrom. Maintenance in Plants and PSSewer Inspection and Sewer Cleaning Field Works in DW/WW Incl. Connections

Real Time Network Management DW/WW/SWWater Primary Network Management and Water Balance Water Secondary Network ManagementLeak DetectionWaste Water Network Management Storm Water Network Management


MMR and AMR Reading and ManagementAutomation & Sensors for DW/WW/ENVLab & QC for DW and WW

ENV Monitoring


Business Processes


Drinking Water

Projects

Technical Support Engineers (TSE)

Waste Water

Measurements and Laboratory

Management

ENV and Quality Certification

Automation

Electromechanics and Pumps

Real Time Operations

Connection and Site Works


Frames of JP

54 JP within

classification of urban water uses was done, by identifying the existing water business processes and jobs profiles

Job Profile (JP): The outline of the duties and tasked required of and performed by a person for a specific title/job.

Job Profiles


Drinking Water Projects

Technical Support Engineers (TSE)

Waste Water

Measurements and LaboratoryManagement

ENV and Quality Certification

Automation

Electromechanics and Pumps

Real Time Operations

Connection and Site Works


Resource & Env TSEDrinking Water Quality TSEDrinking Water Network TSEWaste Water Treatment TSEWaste Water Network TSEStorm Water TSE

Production managerDistribution managerSewerage managerCustomer managerFinance managerHR ManagerLogistic managerCommercial ManagerContract ManagerAsset ManagerTechnical ManagerInnovation managerResearch managerCommunication managerHealth & safety managerCrisis managerMarketing managerQuality Prevention Env & Processes

Network operatorsDW plant technician and/or operatorDW plant supervisor DW plant managerLeak detection technician and/or operator

MMR and AMR fittersMeter readersMeter bench specialistMeter park managerWater quality lab technicianHead of the lab

WWTP technician and/or operatorWWTP supervisorWWTP managerCamera operatorNetwork inspection technicianCleaning operator

Dispatcher / Control Room Technician

Electromechanic TechnicianHead of maintenance team

Automation engineer Instrumentalist

Works foremanField work planner / coordinator / scheduler

GIS technicianHead of GIS team

Samples collectorsRemote sensors technician

Project technicianProject engineer

Job Profiles

Matrix creationRows: Job Profiles

Columns: Business Processes


Level of knowledge for each JP


Business processes and the jobs profiles of the water industry can be related to each other by assessing the importance of each BP in every JP In order to reflect this relation, the matrix was filled in with a scale from 0 to 3, indicating: 0 [not important]: No specific knowledge requested about this BP 1 [intermediate]: Minimal knowledge of the BP (general overview about the BP), but the JP requires a shallow knowledge about this BP 2 [important]: Knowledge of the global BP and activity in parts of the BP 3[very important]: In depth knowledge of the BP core activity of the JP and management of the BP

Level of knowledge for each JP


Embossing the training needs: the knowledge (deep – 3 – very important and global – 2 -

important) of certain BP that each job profile has to have

DW plant technician and/or

operator

DWTP

Mngt

El.-Mech.

Mainten. In

WWTP, DWTP &PS

Mapping the training needs


Matrix, mapping the needs [BP in JP]


Conclusions

In the recent years the GI community is promoting several

initiatives aimed at identifying the job market needs in

terms of knowledge and skills for the new professional

profiles arising from new regulatory as well as

technological developments in the GI-related fields.

Those efforts will hopefully result in university-industry

shared definition of competencies in specific professional

domain, helping education and vocational training offer to

match the actual job requirements, at the same time

providing tools for competence certification and validation at EU

level.

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University-Enterprise cooperation for knowledge and skill requirements joint definition M. Carbonaro, GISIG, Genova, IT 25 th September 2014 0 - 2014 Open