Support and reform of C95 trainer competence - Development of a uniform training package and certification process for C95 trainers - ProC95Trainer
2021-1-AT01-KA220-VET-000033160
In the European Union, due to EU Directive 2018/645, all professional drivers with vehicles over 3.5 t total weight and professional drivers with buses with more than eight seats must complete mandatory training on specified topics amounting to 35 hours every five years. After completing the further training measures, the professional driver receives a so-called C95 code entered in the driving license or the individual Member States receive their own C 95 identity card. For this reason, the further training measures are also referred to as C95 training. The same applies to any mandatory further training required of trainers. This results in very different levels of quality in the training of professional drivers in the individual Member States. Furthermore, the permeability of the labour market for C95 trainers is not given, as the different criteria make it possible to work in Member State A but not in Member State B. The current active trainers show that there is a high degree of mobility between Member States. Among the currently active trainers, findings from previous projects show that there are significant deficiencies in the area of didactic pedagogical skills. These previous projects have recorded the need, but have not developed products to meet the need. In addition, Covid Pandemie also showed that trainers' skills in using digital training tools to design long distance trainings are almost non-existent. Another area of need results from the fact that the topics of green thinking, sustainable business and digitalisation are hardly dealt with by the C95 trainers.
The need to increase the digital competences of C95 trainers to develop and deliver long distance training and to meet the requirements for C95 training after the Covid pandemic.
The implementation of this project is intended to define a uniform standardised framework for the necessary skills of C95 trainers. This should also serve as a recommendation for the authorities in the individual Member States and ensure uniformity of the requirements for the activity of a C95 trainer in all Member States in the future.
Through the planned development of an online testing platform, it will be possible after the implementation of the project to carry out a certification of C95 trainers and to renew this certification at regular intervals.
Results: Four innovative results will be produced as part of the C95trainer project. Each Result lead has the required expertise to direct the production of each result. The intended outcome of these results is to create freely-accessible materials to support more than 200 professional drivers’ trainers by equipping them with the knowledge, motivation, and tools to bring Europe closer to a more sustainable and harmonised educational material for the C95 trainings.