The Train the Train­er pro­gramme aims to empow­er teach­ers and con­sul­tants in the con­struc­tion and fin­ish­ing trade to teach dig­i­tal skills to SMEs. Many edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions and con­sul­tants in coun­tries such as Ger­many, Latvia, Poland and Hun­gary are not yet suf­fi­cient­ly pre­pared for the dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion. The pro­gramme fills this gap by impart­ing knowl­edge and skills for the suc­cess­ful use of dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies and for imple­ment­ing dig­i­tal­ly sup­port­ed coop­er­a­tion.

The three-day pro­gramme includes detailed cur­ric­u­la and teach­ing mate­ri­als based on indus­try best prac­tices. The aim is to qual­i­fy teach­ers and con­sul­tants so that they can sup­port SMEs in effi­cient­ly imple­ment­ing dig­i­tal solu­tions. Anoth­er focus is on intro­duc­ing online con­sult­ing for SMEs and installing a digi­ti­sa­tion offi­cer to pro­vide com­pa­nies with con­tin­u­ous sup­port dur­ing the dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion.

Teach­ers and con­sul­tants will be able to devel­op and imple­ment high-qual­i­ty edu­ca­tion­al and con­sul­tan­cy pro­grammes for SMEs thanks to inten­sive train­ing cours­es based on results such as the ‘Best Prac­tices in Dig­i­tal Tech­nolo­gies and Train­ing’. This mea­sure will sus­tain­ably strength­en the edu­ca­tion­al land­scape and pro­mote the dig­i­tal devel­op­ment of the con­struc­tion indus­try.