Ponencia "Ageing and lifelong training: challenges and measures in the Spanish Construction Industry" de nuestro director de Formación, José Antonio Viejo, durante la European Vocational Skills Week, celebrada del 5 al 9 de noviembre de 2018 en Viena (Austria). El sector de la construcción en España está haciendo frente en los últimos años a importantes retos. El envejecimiento de los trabajadores y el fomento de competencias clave en un entorno cambiante, donde las innovaciones llegan cada vez más rápido y la competitividad de las empresas depende cada vez más de la transformación digital son algunas de las claves del trabajo de la Fundación Laboral de la Construcción. ----------------------------------------- Lecture "Ageing and Lifelong Training: Challenges and Measures in the Spanish Construction Industry" by our Training Director, José Antonio Viejo, during the European Vocational Skills Week, held from November 5 to 9, 2018 in Vienna (Austria). Spanish Construction Industry is facing major challenges in recent years. The ageing of workers and the promotion of key competences in a changing environment, where innovations are coming faster and faster and the competitiveness of companies depends more and more on digital transformation are some of the keys of the work of the Fundación Laboral de la Construcción.

1. Ageing & lifelong training:
Challenges & measures in the
Spanish Construction Industry
José A. Viejo Rodríguez
Training Manager
Vienna, November 7th 2018

2. Fundación Laboral de la Construcción

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About us
It is a non-profit paritarian foundation, created by the
National Collective Agreement in 1992.
Its Board is composed of:
 Employers’ organizations: 26 members.
 Trade unions: 13+13 members.
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* All decisions must be made unanimously.

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Our goals
Vocational
Education
and Training
VET
Occupational
Safety and
Health
OSH
Employment
E

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Our funding
Budget for year 2018: +63 millions €.
Main financing sources:
+80,000 companies pay an annual levy: 0.35% on employees’ salary
46%
31%
19%
3% 0,4%
Cuotas Subvenciones Venta de
servicios
Aportaciones
privadas
Otros
ingresos
Companies’
levy
Public grants Sales Private
contributions
Other
incomes
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Main figures
Year 2017
+75,000 trainees
+2.9 millions of
training hours
Year 2017
5 Education
Diplomas
136 Professional
Certificates
+900 courses
46 training
centres
22 practical
OSH training
centres
TPC:
+700,000 cards
Employment site:
+2,100 companies
+77,000 workers
+ 1,000
trainers
+ 140
textbooks
Year 2017
+5,700 OSH free
consultations
+ 12,500 free
visits to
worksites

7. Spanish VET system

8. Spanish Qualification Framework
Qualification
Level 2
Qualification
Level 3
Qualification
Level 1
Professional
Certificate: Level 1
Compulsory secondary school
Basic Vocational Education
Voluntary secondary school Middle Vocational Education
Upper Vocational Education
Professional
Certificate: Level 2
Professional
Certificate: Level 3
1-1
1-X
1-1
1-X
If same Family + Field
1-1
1-1
4-year Degree
University grades
Ministry of Education
SPANISH INSTITUTE FOR QUALIFICATIONS
Ministry of Employment
16 year-old
18 year-old
VET General CouncilTrade unions Employers’ associations
Acknowledge & accreditation based on
experience & informal training
4-year studies
2-year Diploma
2-year Diploma
2-year Diploma
2-year studies
If same Family + Field

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Comprehensive VET approach
Vocational
Education
(DIPLOMA)
TEENAGERS CURRENT WORKERS
Official
Professional
Training
(CERTIFICATE)
Competence
Unit Training
(Accumulative
Accreditation)
Non-formal
training (the
fastest answer
to innovation)
Acknowledge &
Accreditation
based on
experience
Getting initial
qualification
Re-skilling to another
trade, craft or sector
Updating
skills
Becoming
officially qualified
DIAGNOSISGOALSTREATMENT
Lack of
qualification
Crisis affecting a
trade, craft or sector
Trade or craft changing
due to innovation
Competent worker, but
not officially qualified
When included in
Qualif. Catalogue
If official
competence
exists
If not
(almost
always)

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Spanish VET funding
Initial Vocational Education: according to Country and Regional Budgets.
Continuous Vocational Training: special levy 0.70% on employees’ salary
(0.6% employers + 0.1%employees), around € 1,800 millions:
 Public Training Offer: sectoral & intersectoral plans aimed at
employed and unemployed people.
 Ruled by the National Employment Service (SEPE).
 Controlled, supervised and managed by a Tripartite Foundation:
Public administration + Employers’ associations + Trade unions.
 Necessities identification by SEPE and social partners at sectoral level.
 Credit for Customized Training on demand of any company.
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11. AGEING & LIFELONG TRAINING: CHALLENGES

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Evolution of construction labour force
0
500
1.000
1.500
2.000
2.500
3.000
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Number of construction workers
Thousands workers
Reskilling to related sectors
+ Upskilling “Green Jobs”
Reskilling back to
construction +
Upskilling current workers

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Current construction ageing challenge
<40 year-old
workers
>40 year-old
workers
Construction workers (%) distributed by age

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Forecasting in changing environment
Company’s competitiveness depends more and more on:
 Digital transformation
 Innovation
Environment featured by VUCA:
 Volatility  Uncertainty
 Complexity  Ambiguity
As innovations come faster and faster…
How can we deal with new skills that are still unknown?

15. Fostering key competences
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Facing the challenge
I know everything I need. I’m an expert:
I have done this for years.
Key competences, soft
skills… Nonsenses from
“white collars”.
Job offers have
nothing to do with it!
Short term supremacy:
“show me the colour of
your money”
I learnt all I know at
the worksite. Courses
are useless for me.

17. MEASURES FOSTERING LIFELONG TRAINING

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Measure # 1: Identifying skills mismatches
HOW WE DO IT
Sector Skills Alliances
Blueprint project:
Construction
Goal: Identifying and carrying out measures to
match skills offer and supply, in order to
support the growth strategy for the industry.
Construction Industry Observatory:
 Socio-economic sectoral
infographs & Statistics.
 Reports: VET, innovation, OSH…
 Studies and researches:
identification of training needs,
accidents analysis…
 Business cases, good practices.
Goal: To boost continuing training of on-site
construction workers and systems installers in
the building sector in order to deliver renovations
offering a high energy performance as well as
new, nearly zero-energy buildings

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Measure # 1: Identifying skills mismatches
SOME EXAMPLES
 BIM (Building Information Modelling).
 Lean construction.
 Green jobs:
 Efficiency energy.
 Renewable energy systems.
 Building energy certification.
 Recycling construction & demolition wastes.
 New technologies: virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D print, IoT…
 New products / tools / machinery / equipment / constructive techniques.
 Social skills: negotiation / teamwork / suppliers management / leadership…

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Measure # 2: Designing suitable training
TRAINING COURSES FROM BUILD UP SKILLS
Profitability
Energy
Efficiency
Renewable
energies
Design of 9 new training courses:
 Profitability in EE.
 Insulation.
 Aluminium and PVC carpentry.
 Heating and air conditioning.
 Energy efficiency in buildings.
 Renewable energies in buildings.
 Geothermal energy installations.
 Biomass energy installations.
 Train the trainers on EE y RES.
http://construye2020.eu/construye2020/descargas

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Measure # 2: Designing suitable training
BIM PATH

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Measure # 3: Raising awareness about training
DISSEMINATION
 Twitter: 11,700 followers
 Facebook: 8,600 “likes”
 Linkedin: 12,500 followers
 YouTube: 975,000 views
Blog focus on the “new construction professional profile”: http://blog.fundacionlaboral.org
Direct communication
channel towards
construction
companies and
workers:
Subscriptions Opening
rate
21,184 89.19%
(18,893)
Social media:
 Fundacionlaboral.org
 1,700,000 pageviews/year
 35,000 unique visitors/month
 17 regional websites
 Lineaprevencion.com
350,000 pageviews/year (pv/y)
 Construyendoempleo.com
785,000 pv/y
 Trabajoenconstruccion.com
4,700,000 pv/y
 Cursosenconstruccion.com
1,900,000 pv/y
Websites: Weekly newsletter

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Measure # 3: Raising awareness about training
BIM ENVIRONMENT
FLC, aware of the deep change that BIM methodology is going to
introduce in the constructive process, has created BIM environment:
www.entornobim.org
Direct free advice:
900 82 29 00 (free number)
entornobim@fundacionlaboral.org
Blog
Social media:
FLC is part of:
https://youtu.be/ixvwGMlgcOo

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Measure # 3: Raising awareness about training
FREE TECHNICAL DAYS
Training in new materials and last constructive trends
on building renovation and sustainable building:
 For free.
 Hands-on approach.
 Demonstration on proper material installation.
 Aiming to both technicians and tradesmen.
601 participants27 technical days Year 2017
Partners
Employers’
Associations

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Measure # 3: Raising awareness about training
FREE MASSIVE OPENED ONLINE COURSE
 Short online courses.
 Available for free for TPC holders.
 Including diploma of completion.
 Available anywhere, anytime.
 A new course a month.
 First approach to trending topics:
 BIM
 Sustainable building
 Energy efficiency
 Insulation
 Safety and health
8,169 trainees in 2017

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Measure # 4: Labour counselling and career guidance
EMPLOYMENT AND OUTPLACEMENT AGENCY
Employment and Outplacement agency.
Authorized from 2012 by:
From 2015, entity adhered to the
Youth Entrepreneurship and
Employment Strategy.

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Measure # 4: Labour counselling and career guidance
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT WEBSITE
Online meeting point for employers and workers
searching for a job in the construction industry:
 Workers: +77,000
 Companies: +2,100
 New companies/month: 55
 Offers/month: +160
 Vacancies/month: +330

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Fostering & Supporting measures
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS: R&D&I
http://www.fundacionlaboral.org/en/projects/training
Networks Mobilities Projects
Trainees and trainers
Training staff

29. WE ARE what WE ARE…
Thanks to you.
WE ARE “YOUR FOUNDATION”.

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jviejo@fundacionlaboral.org
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THANK YOU!