DMA Fachtagung2018/09/29

Presentation EU-ProjectMapping skills needs and supply in the dairy sector

AEDIL (Association of European Dairy Industry

Learning)

• European network of dairy stakeholders in 13 countries. 11 member-organizations undertake this project in the auspices of AEDIL with 40 participating bodies

AEDIL Members

• Austria

• Denmark

• Finland

• France

• Germany

• Italy (South Tyrol)

• Luxembourg

• Norway

• Poland

• Sweden

• Switzerland

• Turkey

• United Kingdom

• Ireland

• The Netherlands

The European Dairy Sector

• more concentrated, specialized and automised production

• dairy education (systems) in EU are very different

• a competitive European dairy industry needs collaboration between all actors in education

Objective

The immediate objective of this project is to provide the sector with consolidated recommendations on training provision to meet the skills required by the labour market.

The Team

• 2 universities• 1 VET-provider• 2 skills councils• 2 associations of employers• 3 associations of employees and 1 large

enterprise.

Management / Steering Committee

The management of this project is the Danish Dairy Managers Association (FMF) Manager together with AEDIL (Association for European Dairy Industry Learning) Steering Committee, which is composed of:

*Uludag University (Turkey)* ZDM (Association of the German Dairy Industry employees)* Arla Foods (Global dairy Company)* AFDIL (French Association of Graduates from Dairy Schools)* FMF (Danish Dairy Managers Association)

All together…

…40 participating bodies10 universities, 9 VET-providers, 4 enterprises, 2 skills councils, 9 employers’ associations, 3 employees associations, 1 chamber of commerce, 1 national sectoral agency, 1 labour market research institute

Course of the project

• development of a framework for research of skills needs and supply in the dairy sector;

• research in 13 countries;

• analysis of the data collected and finally

• recommendations on how to close the gaps and even out mismatches found in the research.

Expected results 1/2

• The project will deliver forecasts on skills needs and trends five years ahead

and

• a collection of Best Practices on Work Based Learning from the dairy industry.

Expected results 2/2

• The analysis will include at least, but not exhaustively, these sub-groups: • Skills demands

• Labour and skills supply

• Skills mismatches

• Emerging and future skills needs

• A special focus will be on needs for green skills and for digital skills. Moreover, AEDIL has divide the research and analysis in three areas of specialization within the dairy sector:

• Dairy Science and Technology• Dairy processing• Dairy Packaging and Environment

Timeline

• Report by November 2019 but full updates on the AEDIL websites, blogs and communication on social media.

Overall project management

The Questionnaires

I. Questionnaire for dairy industries (word)

II. Questionaire for education supplier (excel)

III. Questionaire Ex-student education supplier (excel)

I. Questionnaire for dairy industries

Part A: Dairy Skills

1. What products are produced ?

2. What have been the major challenges to your dairy for the last 5 years? (external challenges and internal challenges). How did you face these challenges?

3. To process your products safely (Food safety) and efficiently, what major skills are required?

4. What major difficulties, with production, do you experience in your factory?

5. What major skills are needed in product understanding?

6. What skills are you missing at your site? For what kind of job do you have recruitment difficulties? (skills in tension, rare skills)

I. Questionnaire for dairy industries

Part B: Digital Skills

1. What digital technology do you use in your factories?

2. How important are digital skills in your production?

3. What digital skills are you needed in your factories?

4. Why is it important to have more and more digital skills? Who is concerned?

I. Questionnaire for dairy industries

Part C: Green Skills

1. How important are green skills in your production?

2. Who is concerned with green skills?

3. Why is it important to have more and more green skills?

4. What green skills do you need now? (energy, water, waste, natural resources … issues)

I. Questionnaire for dairy industries

Part D: Future Skills

1. What major challenges will your dairy industry will have to face over the next 5-10 years? (external challenges and internal challenges)

2. What dairy skills will you need for the next 5-10 years?

3. What changes are expected in your factory related to digital technology?

4. Impact on skills needed - What digital skills will you need for the next 5-10 years?

5. What changes are expected in your factory related to green or environmental issues?

6. Impact on skills needed - What green skills will you need for the next 5-10 years?

7. What skills based on Research and Development, Innovation will be needed?

8. What skills linked to quality will be required?

9. Are there any future management skills required?

I. Questionnaire for dairy industries

Part E: Additional questions

1. How do you train workers on dairy skills in your factory (formal and no-formal education)?

2. Try to indicate which is the best level (see research manual) of education for each job:

3. What is your opinion about the training suppliers and the education offer on dairy skills?

4. What should be improved in terms of training content and training methods in schools and universities?

5. What should be improved in terms of training content and training methods in the work place?

6. What do you understand about work based learning?

7. If you know about Work Based Learning (WBL) on a scale of 1-5 how important is it to your site as a method of delivery for dairy skills?

I. Questionnaire for dairy industries

Scale Possible Descriptors1 Not Important Not Severe Not likely2 Slightly Important Slightly Severe Slightly 3 Important Severe Likely4 Really Important Really Severe Most likely5 Critical and must be available Critically severe Definitely

Hedonic five-point scale to assess importance when requested for the relevant question.

II. Questionnaire for education suppliers

III. Questionnaire for Ex-Students education suppliers

First Results (September 2018)

Analysis is based on:

82 dairies (9 DE)

42 dairy-schools + universities (8 DE)

38 Ex Students (12 DE)

Major Challengesparticipating countries

Major ChallengesGermany

TOP topics participating countries

TOP topics ex-students

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Contact:

Association for European Dairy Industry Learning /Europäischer Verband der Milchwirtschafter e.V.Managing Director: RA Torsten SachJägerstraße 51D-10117 Berlin-MitteGermanyPhone: +49 30 4030445-27Mail: info@aedil.org