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University-Enterprise cooperation for knowledge and skill requirements joint definitionM. Carbonaro, GISIG, Genova, IT
25th September 20141
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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.
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LINKVIT Leveraging Inspire Knowledge into
Vocational Innovative Training
Leonardo da Vinci projectTransfer of knowledge strand (IT)
www.linkvit.eu
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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)
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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 ...
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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)
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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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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
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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
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Assessment of training needs in the water sector
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Asset Management
Operation of Plants
Geographical Information
Works and Interventions
Public Service Contract Management
Operation of Networks
Measurements
Water Resources Management
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
Water Resources Management
MMR and AMR Reading and ManagementAutomation & Sensors for DW/WW/ENVLab & QC for DW and WW
ENV Monitoring
Public Service Contract Management
Business Processes
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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
Geographical Information
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
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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
Geographical Information
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
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Level of knowledge for each JP
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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
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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
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Matrix, mapping the needs [BP in JP]
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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.