PEREQUAL

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PEREQUAL

• Vocational retraining paths
• for Agricultural
• Machinery Industry employees

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THE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE EQUAL
What is EQUAL?
Equal is a Community Initiative, funded by the
European Social Fund, aiming at supporting
innovative transnational projects for the
development of strategies fostering employement
growth in Europe.
What is the link between the project PEREQUAL and
the initiative EQUAL?
PEREQUAL meets a very specific objective of the
Initiative Equal
Promoting innovating processes among SMEs to go
alongside production and market changes as a
strategic choice to protect companies from market
exclusion and prevent social and occupational
insecurity
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THE PARTNERS TO THE PROJECT
Development Partnership (DS) Lead Partner
MCG Manager Consulting Group S.c.a.r.l.
The other partners
UNACOMA
UNACOMA SERVICE S.r.l.
ENAMA
QB S.r.l.
AGRONICA S.c.a.r.l.
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PROJECT AGENDA AND BUDGET

• Project duration 24 months (11 July 2005 10
  July 2007)

Project budget 1,410,720.00 euro
Public funding 100 (European Commission
Ministry of Labour)
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PROJECT MAIN OBJECTIVE

• Contributing to the innovation-oriented process
  marking the agricultural machinery industry at
  present
• The process is the result of a variety of factors
• (technological, economic, production-related,
  organizational and legal developments)
• If not duly anticipated and governed
• they might turn
• from growth and expansion opportunities
• into risk factors liable to undermine industry
  competitiveness

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PROJECT SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES (1)
The objective of boosting sector comptetitiveness
can be subdivided into the following specific
sub-objectives
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PROJECT SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES (2)
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ACTION LINES

• The following three work paths have been
  identified

Employees vocational retraining and adjustment of
the available education paths for those who want
to have access to the agricultural machinery
industry
Enhancement of internal and external
communication and exploitation of the potential
and opportunities deriving from both private and
public support tools
Reaffirmation of the critical role of RS
initiatives among those to be targeted by
investments
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WORK PLAN

• The project focuses on the implementation of a
  number of integrated actions subdivided into 6
  macro-phases

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VOCATIONAL RETRAINING FOR WORK CATEGORIES WITH
LITTLE DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS
Objective
Transferring new competencies to people belonging
to work categories with traditionally little
development prospects who are involved in back
office (documentalists, logisticians, marketing
and administrative employees) and front office
activities (secretaries, event organization and
customer service employees). The aim is providing
them with the tools to work in context becoming
evemore international.
Beneficiaries
40 people (divided into 2 groups)
Activities

• A research phase, focussing on a training need
  analysis and involving all UNACOMA members

• Detailed planning of vocational training paths
  and development of the related teaching tools

• The activation of two experimental training paths
  (20 beneficiaries per course)
• Course A1, for the transfer of industry-specific
  microlinguistic knowledge
• Course A2, for the update of competences on the
  retrieval, filing and treatment of
  contract-related regulations and sensitive
  information and data

To see the phase
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Macrophase 1 Diagram
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VOCATIONAL RETRAINING FOR MANAGERS AND TECHNICIANS
Objective
Updating the competences of managers and of
skilled technicians involved in product
development and post-sales process management
activities. The aim is enhancing the internal
knowledge of companies thereby reducing their
dependence upon the external supply of skills.
36 people (subdivided into 3 groups)
Beneficiaries
Activities

• A research phase, focussing on a training need
  analysis and involving all industry companies
  belonging to UNACOMA

• Detailed planning of vocational training paths
  and development of the related teaching tools

• The activation of three experimental training
  paths (12 beneficiaries per course)
• Course B1, for the updating of competencies
  pertaining to the new CAP and to its impact on
  product planning and distribution processes
• Course B2, for the transfer of competences on
  laws and regulations concerning product safety
  and quality in the various end markets
• Course B3, for the update and adjustment of
  competences relating to new competitive factors
  and innovation transfer processes and rationales

To see the phase
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Macrophase 2 Diagram
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REFRESHMENT COURSE FOR ENTREPRENEURS AND HR
MANAGERS
Objective

• Transferring additional competences to
  entrepreneurs and HR managers to enable them to
• better define their needs in terms of
  infrastructures and technologies,
• identify and assess the advantages and
  constraints linked to the internationalization of
  research-oriented cooperation,
• measure investments and check the transferability
  of organizational options used elsewhere (also by
  means of benchmarking techniques).

10 entrepreneurs and managers
Beneficiaries
Activities

• Educational content definition and scheduling of
  activities

• Preparation of teaching material

• Implementation of three refreshment seminars

• Technical consultancy for entrepreneurs to assist
  them in carrying out project work (internal audit
  consultancy service) leading to results to be
  used in decision-making processes.

To see the phase
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Macrophase 3 Diagram
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TEACHING TOOLS AND MODULES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Objective
Increasing the quality of the education offer
provided by the industry through the creation of
teaching tools and modules to supplement
university syllabuses and through the launch of
formal procedures for the recognition of the
related credits.
Universities, institutions offering training
courses, businesses, employees and students
Beneficiaries
Activities

• Involvement of the university departments and
  research institutes taking part in the experiment

• Definition of modules and teaching units
  structure details (Capitalisable Education
  Units). Temptative contents CAP, quality and
  safety standards, specific knowledge on
  mechanical and electrical applications, special
  crops and forestry.

• Preparation of teaching material

• Verification of the transferability of modules
  into existing curricula

• Launch of procedures for credit measure and
  recognition

Indirect result
Completion of a training catalogue for the
creation of a European Master at the Bologna
University
To see the phase
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UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES TRAINING
PROVISION

• University of Milan Institute of Agricultural
  Engineering
• University of Palermo Department of
  Agricultural and Forestry Technologies and
  Engineering
• University of Bari Department of Planning and
  Management of Agricultural, Zootechnical and
  Forestry Systems
• University of Perugia - Department of
  Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and
  Vegetable Production
• University of Florence - Department Agricultural
  and Forestry Engineering
• University of Padua - Department of Land
  Management and Agricultural and Forestry Systems
• CNR-IMAMOTER, Institute for Agricultural and
  Earth moving machinery
• REI Reggio Emilia Innovations

With the additional contribution of

• University of Bologna (as far as European
  Master-related activties are concerned)

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Macrophase 4 Diagram
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INFORMATION DISSEMINATION AND AWARENESS-RAISING
INITIATIVES
Objective
Increasing the industry offer of information
services and communication channels to meet the
growing needs of companies, while fostering
greater attention to issues like HR development
and sector competitiveness. Providing visibility
to this action and spreading the good practices
activated within the project to institutions and
other industries.
Businesses, Institutions, Industry associations,
Employees
Beneficiaries
Activities

• Activation of an industry-dedicated satellite
  channel to circulate information on companies, to
  present innovative production processes and to
  spread information and training contents (e.g.
  new design trends, new materials, product-related
  communication and marketing, CAP and safety and
  quality)

• Implementation of a dedicated area in the Unacoma
  internet site where to gain access to research
  and teaching material, to industry databases
  (e.g. certification and safety laws), to
  information on projects, to the regional poles
  RD extranet and to ad hoc on-line systems for
  the management of the project

• Preparation of information material (leaflets,
  brochures, newsletters) and of articles to be
  published on industry magazines

• Project opening and closing conferences to
  advertise the project and its outcome both inside
  and outside the agricultural machinery industry

To see the phase
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Macrophase 5 Diagram
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ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL POLES FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF RS COOPERATION INITIATIVES
Objective
Strengthening the existing links between
different companies and between them and the
scientific world to foster regular implementation
of RS cooperation initiatives. The aim is
developing innovative products and new patents,
with a view to reducing costs, playing a
pioneering role and enlarging and governing the
industry market.
Companies, Universities and Research Centres
Beneficiaries
Activities

• Definition of a research program shared between
  all members

• Launch and implementation of one research project
  within each pole with the aim of creating a new
  patent and disseminating the project results

• Poles going live through a dedicated extranet

To see the phase
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UNIVERSITA E ISTITUTI DI RICERCA POLI
TERRITORIALI

• University of Milan Institute of Agricultural
  Engineering
• University of Palermo Department of
  Agricultural and Forestry Technologies and
  Engineering

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Macrophase 6 Diagram
Official establishment of poles
Local coordination Pole establishment and
launch Unacoma Unacoma Service Enama MCG Agronica
University departments
General Coordination Unacoma Service
Activation and management of an extranet for the
poles
Implementation of RESEARCH PROJECTS and
registration of NEW PATENTS
Dissemination of Research Results