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DEFMA ( Digital and environmental skills for facilities management) Project

1. South West College (lead partner)

2. Bulgarian Facility Management Association (Bulgaria)

3. Vilnius Building Training Centre (Lithuania)

4. PROMEA (Greece)

5. The National School of Services (Italy)

Partners are from the world of VET, the Facility Management Segment, energy efficiency experts as well as innovation experts

 

Aim

  • To improve the environmental & sustainability skills needs of facility managers
  • This will be done by delivering a modular VET course and open educational resources on environment technologies & sustainable building services
  • Facility managers, apart from technical and management proficiency, require a mix of digital and environmental skills to maintain high-performance buildings with significantly reduced energy and water consumption.
  • There is thus an increasing need to enhance the skills of facility managers on carbon emission reduction practices, monitoring resources consumption, and on using up-to-date environmental technologies systems to enhance building sustainability and reduce negative environmental impact

 

The main activities will include

  • Analysis of current and future workforce training needs to develop updates and tailored occupational needs, modern environmental technologies and services learning outcomes
  • Development of modular learning units for a comprehensive VET programme in environment technologies and sustainable building services
  • Development of pedagogical resources and assessment tools  to be offered as Open Education Resources
  • Development, testing and delivery of a MOOC on environmental technologies and services

 

Outputs

  • O1: Evidence based learning outcomes
  • O2: DEFMA learning units and VET integration guidelines
  • O3: DEFMA Open Educational Resources
  • O4: DEFMA Massive Open Online Course
  • O5: EU Strategic Partnership for the validation, endorsement and mutual recognition of DEFMA units of learning outcomes
  • Two demonstration workshops in the UK and Italy to promote DEFMA results and validate all DEFMA learning materials (E1-2)
  • Three national information days in Bulgaria, Greece, and Lithuania to share and disseminate DEFMA results

 

For further information about the DEFMA Programme, please contact Barry McCarron, DEFMA Project Manager. E: barry.mccarron@swc.ac.uk | T: 028 6634 2301 |

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