The Train­ing pro­gramme on coop­er­a­tion through dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion aims to pro­mote coop­er­a­tion in the con­struc­tion indus­try by using dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies. Cur­rent­ly, around 25% of con­struc­tion costs are spent on coor­di­na­tion work, which can be great­ly reduced by dig­i­tal tools. In par­tic­u­lar, coun­tries such as Ger­many, Latvia, Poland and Hun­gary have some catch­ing up to do in the use of coop­er­a­tion mod­els, while oth­er coun­tries such as Fin­land, Den­mark or the Nether­lands are more advanced in this area.

The edu­ca­tion­al pro­gramme includes con­cepts, cur­ric­u­la, teach­ing mate­ri­als and an exam­i­na­tion reg­u­la­tion based on the EU action plan for dig­i­tal edu­ca­tion and the DIG COMP frame­work. The tar­get group is archi­tects, engi­neers and man­agers of SMEs in the con­struc­tion and fin­ish­ing trades, who will receive com­pre­hen­sive train­ing in the use of dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies and in the imple­men­ta­tion of col­lab­o­ra­tions. Three teach­ing blocks are planned, sup­ple­ment­ed by prac­ti­cal learn­ing and reflec­tion phas­es sup­port­ed by coach­ing process­es. After com­plet­ing the train­ing, par­tic­i­pants receive a recog­nised cer­tifi­cate that is also valid inter­na­tion­al­ly.

The inno­v­a­tive pro­gramme increas­es effi­cien­cy and qual­i­ty in con­struc­tion projects and is ful­ly trans­fer­able. It is used by train­ing insti­tu­tions and has been test­ed in the project coun­tries of Ger­many and Hun­gary. Based on the eval­u­a­tion results, the pro­gramme will be revised and imple­ment­ed in oth­er edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions.