The Dig­i­tal train­ing for the con­struc­tion and fin­ish­ing trades focus­es on pro­vid­ing com­pre­hen­sive train­ing for SMEs in the con­struc­tion and fin­ish­ing trades on the dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion. Despite the avail­abil­i­ty of dig­i­tal mod­els and tools, dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion in the indus­try is slow, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Ger­many and the part­ner coun­tries of Latvia, Poland and Hun­gary.

The train­ing pro­gramme includes con­cepts, cur­ric­u­la, teach­ing mate­ri­als and an exam­i­na­tion reg­u­la­tion based on the EU action plan for dig­i­tal edu­ca­tion and the Euro­pean dig­i­tal com­pe­tence frame­work (DIG COMP). It con­tains sev­er­al mod­ules that cor­re­spond to lev­els 4 to 6 of the DIG COMP. The pro­gramme is divid­ed into sev­er­al blocks at the train­ing insti­tu­tion, sup­ple­ment­ed by prac­ti­cal learn­ing phas­es at the work­place and an accom­pa­ny­ing coach­ing process. The qual­i­fi­ca­tion is achieved by inte­grat­ing best prac­tices for dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies and tools.

The tar­get groups are SME own­ers and pro­fes­sion­als who acquire com­pre­hen­sive knowl­edge of dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion and its appli­ca­tion through the pro­gramme. The struc­ture and ped­a­gogy of the pro­gramme, which pro­motes the prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion of dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies dur­ing the train­ing, is par­tic­u­lar­ly inno­v­a­tive.

The main impacts are: a) com­pre­hen­sive train­ing for SMEs and their employ­ees on the dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, b) a prac­tice-ori­ent­ed train­ing and coach­ing pro­gramme for broad region­al appli­ca­tion, and c) sig­nif­i­cant increas­es in effi­cien­cy and attrac­tive­ness in the con­struc­tion indus­try. The result is ful­ly trans­fer­able and is being test­ed and imple­ment­ed in var­i­ous coun­tries.