The assessment phase foreseen by the project “Retraining of those registered in the Sicilian Region’s Register of Trainers” has been completed, aimed at knowing and formalizing the competence profiles of those registered in the Sicilian Region’s Register of Trainers. Through the “Data Quality Management” platform it was possible to provide survey questionnaires and map the skills, abilities, attitudes and expectations of 1,267 trainers. The project idea was born with the aim of strengthening the administrative capacity of the Sicilian Region, in the face of the strong downsizing of the training sector in recent years and the new distance learning tools introduced and the digital transition.
by Chiara Mennonna – Formez
I am 1.267out of a total number of 1,927 entitled to requalification, those registered in the Register of Trainers of Sicily interviewed between 3 October and 17 November 2023 by team project territoryat the Department of Professional Training of Palermo and the Employment Centers of Catania, Syracuse, Ragusa, Enna, Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Trapani and Messina.
This concludes the planning and administration of interviews with Sicilian trainers conducted by Formez PA for the Sicilian Region, in order to identify the skill needs of the staff registered in the Regional Register of Trainers: milestone underlying the most important and final objective of supporting the professional retraining of this audience in the specific areas of professional training, digitalisation and self-entrepreneurship.
The intervention of assessment thus identified in the group of interest (1,267), in relation to the age group, that the majority of donne (45%) has an age between 60 and 50 years, while 38% of men is between 70 and 60 years old.
The Province with the greatest number of interviewees were instead Palermo with the 43% e Trapani with the 15%.
L’assessmentthe first carried out on those registered in the Regional Register of Sicilian Trainerswas developed within the Project Requalification of those registered in the Sicilian Region’s register of trainers which complies with the provisions of Regional Law 14 December 2019, n. 23, with the aim of knowing and formalizing the competence profiles relating to all those registered in the Register.
Main tool ofassessmentfollowing interviews conducted by team of experts on the Sicilian territory, was the platform of DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT, which through the provision of survey questionnaires allowed the definition of the skills for each person entitled to retraining through the formulation of personalized forms. The application thus allowed for in-depth knowledge of the skills, abilities, attitudes to work as well as the expectations of each of the 1,267 trainers surveyed, by cross-referencing personal data, complementary data (in compliance with the privacy and quality control), qualifications, contribution situation.
Within the platform, the data relating to qualifications have been equated with the levels of European Qualifications Framework (EQF), which, based on the learning outcomes articulated on and for all types of qualifications, acts as a “translator” of the different national qualifications frameworks. As regards the codification of the distribution of personnel by qualification, the Professional Classification was used instead ISTAT (CP 2021) and the National Labor Atlas, which through the ADA (Areas of Activity) contains the description of the individual activities, the expected products and services as well as references to the statistical codes of the ISTAT classifications (Professional Units) of all professions.
The project idea was born with the aim of strengthening the administrative capacity of the Sicilian Region, in the face of the strong downsizing of the training sector in the last years of implementation of regional training policies, and of the new distance learning tools introduced by the digital transition.
The platform dedicated toassessment represents an opportunity to autonomousize personnel evaluation processes for PAs, offering itself as a model of good practice for regional, provincial and municipal administrations who could thus carry out such activities assessmentin full autonomy, directly managing the data collected and producing profiling and analyzes on the skills possessed by its resources.
At the end of the phase assessment, the analysis of the data collected is currently underway, in order to develop strategies for updating and retraining the skills of personnel registered in the Regional Register. Following this, in agreement with the Sicilian Region, the specifically designed training courses will be provided.
The Project Manager, Giuseppe Raffa, underlined how “the assessment activity, carried out by the Formez working group, has given the Sicilian Region a real snapshot of the work experiences and skills acquired in recent years by professional training operators. For the first time the Administration can benefit from correct and updated information to implement effective retraining policies in favor of this group of workers. We do not rely on ‘perceptions’ or assumptions relating to the characteristics of the beneficiaries of public interventions, but on data collected in the field and verified through a flexible IT tool capable of placing the skills recorded in the context of national and European methodologies and classifications”.