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ENgineering COMPASS (ENCOMPASS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The ENCOMPASS project principally aims to create a fully digital integrated design decision support (IDDS) system to cover the whole manufacturing chain for a laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) process encompassing all individual processes within in. The ENCOMPASS concept takes a comprehensive view of the L-PBF process chain through synergising and optimising the key stages. The integration at digita...
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Developing a novel hybrid AM approach which will offer unrivalled flexibility, part quality and productivity (OpenHybrid)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The OPENHYBRID project will overcome the technical and commercial barriers of current hybrid manufacturing systems to deliver a single manufacturing system capable of undertaking a wider range of processes in a seamless automated operation. The new system will offer unrivalled flexibility in terms of materials, including the ability to switch between powder and wire feed-stock within a single part...
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Large Additive Subtractive Integrated Modular Machine (LASIMM)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

The LASIMM project aim is to develop a large scale flexible hybrid additive/subtractive machine based on a modular architecture which is easily scalable. The machine will feature capabilities for additive manufacture, machining, cold-work, metrology and inspection that will provide the optimum solution for the hybrid manufacturing of large engineering parts of high integrity, with cost benefits of...
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European Harmonized Training for Personnel working with Car Body RepairTechnology

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

REASON FOR THE PROJECT AND IMPACT: The idea for this project, submitted to the Erasmus+ National Agency in the UK, arises fromthe fact that there is a lack of qualified personnel on the car body repair sector. Following a report from Boston Consulting Group,"The European Aftermarket Landscape", which says that "the total market volume for the five analyzed focus markets (Germany,France, Great Brit...
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Development and Pilot Line Validation of a Modular re-configurable Laser Process Head (ModuLase)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

State-of-the-art fibre-delivered laser sources are an industrially accepted tool for performing a range of materials processing applications. Despite the unrivalled capability of fibre-delivered laser sources to perform a wide range of processes, the potential flexibility of the laser source is limited by the need to change the processing head for these processes to be performed. The majority of i...
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Assembly of miniaturized PCBs by using low cost hyper-fine solder powders (FineSol)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The total EU electronics industry employs ≈20.5 million people, sales exceeding €1 trillion and includes 396,000 SMEs. It is a major contributor to EU GDP and its size continues to grow fueled by demand from consumers to many industries. Despite its many positive impacts, the industry also faces some challenges connected with the enormous quantity of raw materials that it needs for sustainability,...
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Qualification assessments for refugee training and employment: Fasttrack with ECVET and Skillsbank

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The world is facing an unprecedented displacement crisis. Today, almost 60 million people are forcibly displaced as a result of violent conflicts and natural disasters. By end of February 2016, over 1.1 million people – refugees, displaced persons and other migrants – have made their way to Europe either escaping conflict and serious threats in their country or in search of better economic prospec...
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Implementation of International Guidelines for Risk Management in Welding Fabrication

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

The last decades brought significant improvements in the field of welding fabrication, in terms of standards and education of qualified personnel. However, the current trends of the welding industry to optimize production by reducing fabrication and maintenance costs of the products, continuously require the implementation of new approaches in the training of welding specialists. Since an increasi...
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Health, Safety and Environment Training curriculum development for joining technologies

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Taking into account the hazards of the workplace for the environment and safety personnel specifically related to welding (fume, radiation, noise, vibration), factors with potential high risk on the health and safety of welders, and also its significant impact on the environment, the necessity of management system implementation and personnel training has a major importance, both for employers and...
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Let’s Make It Happen – a Shift into Learning Outcomes in the Welding Sector

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The main aim of Let’s Make It Happen – a Shift into Learning Outcomes in the Welding Sector / MAKE IT project, set to address the Manufacturing & Engineering sector, is to develop a European sector-oriented qualification system through the exchange among EU partners of an innovative training curriculum.The curriculum is designed for an intermediate level of qualification named “Welding Practitione...
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South Mediteranian Welding Center for Education, Training and Quality Control,

Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018,

The recent economic and deep political crisis in the South Mediteranian (SM) region show that access to higher education is NOT a sufficient prerequisite for economic stabilty and job creation. The mismatching between academic programmes and labour market has created a political and economic void where young, high educated people have difficult to build careers in the industrial sector.The SM Wel...
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European Harmonized Training for Personnel working with Adhesive Bonding Technology

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

REASON FOR THE PROJECT: The idea for this project, submitted to the Portuguese Erasmus+ National Agency, arises from the fact that there is a lack of training materials and qualified personnel on the adhesive technology. Adhesive bonding technologies are getting a worldwide diffusion in many industrial sectors, such as aeronautic, automotive,shipping and railway ones. According to a report of AVIS...
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Microbonding - new opportunity for people with educational difficulties to access jobs in materials joining technologies

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

To produce a microbond in specific quality conditions, the bonding personnel should be very well trained to operate specific machines. Due to that, the aim of MICROBOND project is to develop new innovative toolkit dedicated to the training for qualification of bonding processes personnel. The toolkit will address 3 bonding technologies (Eutectic Bonding, Thermosonic Bonding and Adhesive Bonding) w...
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Welding is your chance

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Shortage of welders at European and world labor market, perception of welding as a “dirty” job that negatively influences young people when choosing their future profession and lack of uniformity of welder competence depending on the country of origin for one and the same welding process were foundations and starting points for this project.The main goal of the project is improvement of educationa...
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JOINing of copper to aluminium by ElectroMagnetic fields (JOIN-EM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

Global trends force industry to manufacture lighter, safer, more environmentally-friendly, more performant, and cheaper products. Due to its excellent thermal and electrical conductivity, copper is widely used in heating and cooling equipment and electrical devices. The rising demand caused the copper price to increase significantly.Solving the conflict between the technological benefits arising f...
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Relating International qualifications to EQF – the Welding case

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

The RAINBOW project has the aim of relating International qualifications to EQF in the Welding sector by addressing all European Welding Qualifications - EW/Welder (EW fillet , EW plate, EW tube for different processes (SMAW; MIG/MAG; FCAW,TIG;Oxigas) and materials (steel and aluminium), EWP/Practitioner, EWS/Specialist, EWT/Technologist and EWE/Engineer .The project will develop potential criteri...
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Real-time dynamic control system for laser welding (RADICLE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

RADICLE aims to create a real-time dynamic control system for laser welding using a combination of (application specific) sensors in combination with intelligent and predictive control technologies for in-process monitoring and control to minimize/eliminate defects for a range of materials and geometries for both aerospace, automotive and other applications. The control system will include pre- an...
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Flexible pathways connecting VET and HE by taking into consideration the demands of labor market; TANDEM

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Globalisation dictates that EU 2020 will only be successful if member states bring out the best in people and their potential and extend education opportunities to all. The project is designed to contribute to the debate on policy reform by drawing lessons from good practices and expertise already existing in the partnership and by strengthening the connection between policy makers and practitione...
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Health and Safety in Electromagnetic Fields in Welding

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

REASON FOR THE PROJECT: The risk of failing to implement the requirements of the new Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) Directive will have a negative impact in companies accross europe. This is foresseen to lead to an increase of costs for SMEs and consequently to an increasing number of internal difficulties in order to conform with the Directive. It will be applied to all sectors without exception, h...
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Transparency of credit allocation in VET and HE in Manufacturing

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

REASON FOR THE PROJECT: With the new priority of the European Commission of bringing manufacturing back to Europe their will be a huge need for qualified personnel. Also, the EC has identified advanced manufacturing as key for this "re-manufacturing" of Europe. This will require that VET providers and HE Institutes work together to answer the needs from industry. In order to allow this collaborat...
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Harmonized Laser Technology Training across Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

REASON FOR THE PROJECT: The increasing need for developing new technologies, that allow the production of new items, characterized by higher quality level and performance, results in a high need for personnel capable of using advanced manufacturing processes for new materials, with a longer lifetime. This projects supports EU polices of free movement of personnel providing equal training backgroun...
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Laser equipment ASsessment for High impAct innovation in the manufactuRing European industry (LASHARE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

LASHARE will develop a robust assessment framework for innovative laser equipment paving the way for new manufacturing applications. It will carry out a large number of assessment experiments for a variety of laser equipment targeting strategic manufacturing areas for Europe.The Laser Equipment Assessment (LEA) will be carried out by a trio of research/supplier/user partners. Each LEA will define ...
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Self-repairable Zinc-free Weldable Anti-corrosion Primer for the Steel protection (WELDAPRIME)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The global production of steel is in the range of 1400M tons, worth nearly €1trillion. The steel demand in Europe in 2011 was estimated to be 145M tons, of which 39M tons p.a. for the construction sector and 16M tons p.a. for structural steel. Most of this steel is carbon or mild steel (as opposed to stainless steel) which corrodes at a high rate and although there are a significant number of anti...
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European Training Programme for Completing the requirements for fabrication and assembly of steel and aluminium structures under the EN 1090 standard

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

REASON FOR THE PROJECT:The risk of failing to implement the requirements of a new legislation (EN 1090), which will be mandatory from the 1st of July 2014 onwards, is very high since SMEs in the metal construction sector will deal with changes in their working procedures. This is foreseen to lead to an increase of costs for SMEs and consequently to an increasing number of internal difficulties to ...
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Skillstube: Video recordings of skills performance linked to ECVET descriptions

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

Context/background: The context of the Skillstube project is the implementation of the ECVET principles of precise descriptions of Learning Outcomes (LOs) structured into units. Even though descriptions of LOs are highly precise through differentiating them into specifications of Competences, Knowledge and Skills, however this form of competence documentation may still fail to capture tacit knowle...
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Flexible fabrication of lightweight aluminium transport structures (FlexiFab)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

The Flexi-Fab project aims to develop a flexible FSW welding system capable of automatically fabricating complex structures, in a variety of joint configurations, from a range of aluminium alloy grades and thicknesses used in the transport sector.Flexi-Fab will deliver significant benefits to the metal working and fabrication industry by providing a cost-effective method of fabricating aluminium s...
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Implementation of the guidelines for mechanized, orbital and robotized welding personnel

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Welding technology is applied to the most important industrial sectors worldwide: metallurgical, electronic, automotive and civil engineering are examples of economic areas where well qualified welding professionals are fundamental for the quality of the final result. However, despite its applicability, the renewal of specialized welding professionals does not follow the needs of market. (Full-tim...
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TAILORed Energy Distributions for Laser WELDing (TailorWeld)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Laser beam welding is a high-performance joining process that is rapidly growing; highlighted by the fact that the global market for laser welding equipment has grown 50% since 2004, and was worth €1.1 Billion in 2011. The market is expected to grow a further 6% in 2012, and approximately 50% of revenues are generated from sales to European manufacturers. The large increase in uptake observed sin...
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Development of an ultrasonic testing technique to characterise diffusion bonds in layered structures (BondTest)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

Diffusion bonding offers a number of advantages to a wide range of industry sectors and applications, particularly where there is a need to join dissimilar materials. The main advantage of diffusion bonding is that, unlike welding, it is not a 'fusion' process – it is a solid state process and the parent materials to be joined do not need to be melted. This makes diffusion bonding an ideal solutio...
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Analysis of workers exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) from welding and NDT processes, guidelines for risk assessment and development of risk assessment web based application (EMFWELD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

The SME association/groupings (SME-AGs) in this transnational consortium wish to develop an interactive web based software application to calculate and assess electromagnetic fields (EMF) exposure in metal fabrication, particularly welding [EMFWELD] and non-destructive testing (NDT). The European fabrication industry is required to ensure that workers exposure to EMF is minimised and below the l...
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Development and Validation of an Automated Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) Approach for Testing Welded Joints in Plastic Pipes (TestPEP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

Plastics pipes offer significant advantages over other materials such as cast iron, steel, copper and concrete, for the transportation of fluids such as natural gas, water, effluent and corrosive liquids. They do not corrode; have a longer predicted service life, leading to less frequent replacement; they are less expensive to install due to their light weight and flexibility; and have significant...
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DETECTION OF SAFETY CRITICAL CRACKS AND CORROSION IN SHIPS USING NOVEL SENSORS AND SYSTEMS BASED ON ULTRASONIC LINEAR PHASED ARRAY TECHNOLOGY (Ship Inspector)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

Structural failure is a major cause of the wreckage of ships, vessels and tankers and causes loss of life and pollution of the seas and coastal waters of Europe as follows: §In 2004, the total amount of oil and oil products transported by sea reached the two billion-tonne/year mark (more than 40 % of total maritime traffic). The European Union accounts for 27 % of this traffic, with 90 % of Europe...
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European Training Programme for Completing the requirements for Quality Welding under Standard Series EN-ISO 3834

This project, as originally specified in its proposal, which aims to harmonize the training of personnel involved in the management and control of welding process in the industrial manufacturers across various European countries, one of the needs of business, implementation and application of EN ISO 3834. Once the project and prepared the various manuals to be used, these must be transferred to th...
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Implementation of European Guidelines for Joining Technology Training

The training and qualification in areas of joining technologies like plastic welding, in the field of manufacturing technologies is presently done in each country on a "national" level. The systems implemented in each country differ from country to country as some are technologically more advanced than others, promoting the creation of differences between industrial sectors working in these areas ...
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DISTOOLWELD - Transfer of a distance learning tool

The European welding fabrication industry has just over 1.9 million employees directly or indirectly linked with welding. Welding is the most important fabrication technique used in manufacturing. A failure in a weld can lead to disastrous consequences (e.g. piper alpha platform, rail accidents). The effort to assure that welding is performed with proper quality is clear from the amount of Standar...
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Improvement on the accessibility of welding related training courses

It is a fact that the number of qualified welding personnel has been decreasing over the last years, and a way to reverse this trend had to be developed since industry has difficulties in contracting skilled workers in this field ("Shortage of welding personnel", DVS, 2008). It was estimated that in 2010, the shortage of welders reached 200 000. The industry using welding represents an added value...
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Eurodata - Online Examination Database for Harmonised Training

EuroDATA aims at supporting the implementation of a harmonised system for theexamination of the training objectives. Aware of the importance of current competence andconstant upgrading of skills in the field of welding and manufacturing technologies, through thesupport of EUROWELD project, the EWF coordinated the development of Harmonised guidelines fordifferent categories of welding personnel. Th...
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IMPLEMENTATION OF VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION OF WELDERS AND WELDING SPECIALISTS

The education and also training of welders and welding specialists play an important role in quality assurance in all areas of industry where welding technology is applied. Recently new very modern tool for the training of welders skill using virtual training environment (simulator) have appeared on the market. This sophisticated tool precisely simulate welding conditions at either MMAW (manual me...
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Distance Learning for Welding Engineers

The project was looking to implement and improve distance learning for welding education in Hungary and Croatia.By implementing and translating an interactive and stimulating tool, the project has a lasting impact in Vocational Education and Training in both target countries.The tool is assisting in ensuring the high degree of technical quality that the EWF harmonised system of training and qualif...
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Certification of Welding Coordinators Related with LLP

Reasons:Spreading of the certification scheme to other countries is most certainly a joint interest of the European market. For its development and competitiveness, the Slovenian metal-working industry requires qualified personnel holding relevant international certificates. Regular schooling does not provide welding engineers, technologists and foremen; therefore, it is most important to promote ...
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