The partners of the DiSTT project met for two days in Vienna to discuss the progress of the project so far and to plan activities for the next period. Representatives of the involved FabLabs discussed together the results of national surveys among their users about what training they are interested in. Over 500 respondents from five countries took part in the survey. The results of the survey will help create training programs to help participants learn the necessary digital technologies for today’s market.
In the first period of the project, individual FabLabs communicated intensively with representatives from a number of important regional institutions, companies from small to large, and of course also with their users or students.
The publicly communicated output will be the Digital Skills Transformaton Toolkit that will contain RE/UP programs, assesment fo participants and program implementation guide for other organizations. All outputs (docs and apps) will be designed for stakeholders, organizations and individuals to enter transformation infrastructure operating on labour market to deliver desired digital fabrication skills.
The goal of the DiSTT project is the transferability of results between regions not only in Central Europe, therefore each of the project partners determines the needs of its specific target group.
“We envision the Toolkit as an application whose charm will be in facilitating the right choice, focus and setting of educational programs with regard to the needs of individuals and overall ecosystems in local labor markets. The international consortium of partners in the DiSTT project will prepare the Toolkit in mutual cooperation so that other FabLabs in Europe will be able to use it for free. This will make digital manufacturing knowledge more accessible and increase the positive impact on the labor market,” explained the main project manager from the Brno University of Technology David Škaroupka. The target groups of this project are freelancers, employees and students, employers, policy makers.
What does the DiSTT project acronym stand for?
Digital Skills Transformation Toolkit for a Resilient Labour Market
Next year, the individual FabLabs involved in the DiSTT project will test pilot versions of their training programs on the first applicants. The first presentation of the Toolkit is planned at the world conference The Fab2025, which will be held in the Czech Republic for the first time in history.
Czechs will have the opportunity to show visitors what they can do, and at the same time share and learn from the experience of the global community of makers. For those interested, DiSTT’s training programs can be a ticket to this creative and dynamically developing world.
The DiSTT project is co-financed by the European Union within the Interreg Central Europe programme.