The project of innovation and applied research and knowledge transfer in Vocational Training of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training “From the traditional workshop to the sustainable workshop” has fulfilled its objectives. The overall objective of the project was to develop the environmental competence of vocational training students with conventional technical profiles towards a model closer to the Circular Economy and An economic model of sustainable and environmentally friendly materials.
The project “From the traditional workshop to the sustainable workshop” was structured in two phases. In the first phase the following results were acquired:
- development of a technical course for the identification of technical and environmental aspects which is available on our Moodle platform and attached to this news.
- the participants identified the existing occupational safety and environmental aspects in the field of machining workshops of industrial SMEs.
- diagnosed the current situation of the machining workshops of the two VET centres collaborating in the project on occupational safety and environmental aspects.
- the project partner company, NexMachina, defined a training on technological solutions available on the market based on the diagnosis of the current situation of the machining workshops.
In the second phase, with the information obtained from the previous steps, measures for the digitisation and environmental improvement of the workshop were proposed, all with the support and experience of the company NexMachina Solutions, in order to implement the piloting of the digitised workshop. Subsequently, with the data obtained, changes were proposed to increase the sustainability of the production workshop.
Teachers and students from both the centre itself (Politeknika Txorierri) and the Salesianos Lora Tamayo Andalusian centre participated in the development and transfer of this project, within different medium and higher-level training cycles: Education and environmental control, Production programming in mechanical manufacturing, Machining and Automation and Industrial Robotics.