Auto-CoVE 2.0

Identification of the project

Call :  
ERASMUS-EDU-2022-PEX-COVE (Partnership for Excellence – Centres of Vocational Excellence)

Duration :  
4 years (15/06/2023 – 30/05/2027)

Coordinator : 
OMNIA (Finland) 

Project number : 
101102844-AUTO-COVE 2.0  

Funding : 359 876 €

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or EACEA. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

About the project

There are 14.6 million people in Europe working in vehicle sector. For instance, vehicle sector employs 55.000 people in small Finland and 840.000 people in Germany. Transition to German institute research (2018) electrified vehicles threats loss of jobs from 75.000 workers alone in Germany. If the percentage is the same in all European automotive workers, this would mean over one million job losses in European-wide scale.

Auto-Cove 2.0 consortium combats on its own behalf on climate change by developing the European Education and Training Area in Vehicle Sector of VET towards greener innovations. Automotive Engineering field employs 14.6 million people in Europe and the whole field is in the middle of a huge change of technologies. The vehicles produced need to comply with several environmental standards and there is a huge push in the sector towards modern technologies with less environmental impact. The existing curricula in VET schools and the training provided by the VET sector in Europe does not cover the subjects necessary to keep up with the emerging technologies as far as upkeep, maintenance and repair of the vehicles already on the market and in use by the general public.

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Objectives

The specific objectives of the project are:

Make skills-gap-analysis in vehicle field in 7 partner countries

Develop technical innovative transnational study modules and training courses for secondary and tertiary level vehicle field education

Upskill vehicle field teachers’ and already working company representatives’ know-how about clean-tech-vehicles

Include different countries VET-policy makers and curriculum legislative bodies into the project as associate partners

Produce and publishing all main project outputs on readily existing international platform

Internationalize consortium’s staff and students

Outputs of the project :

Develop innovative study modules and training courses of alternative fuel vehicle service and sales on three EQF- levels in this project: 4, 5 and 6

Study modules for technical and business students in EQF-level 4

Training courses for vehicle engineer students at tertiary level: EQF-level 5

Training courses for Vehicle field teachers at vocational colleges and universities of applied sciences

Upskilling already working workshop leaders, car mechanics and vehicle sales and spare parts salespersons in vehicle industry in all seven partner countries (EQF-levels 4, 5 and 6)