PASSAGE

PASSAGE

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The PASSAGE project aims to develop a “Capability Management Platform” providing Textile and clothing industrial associations with a set of validated products and services enabling their affiliated SMEs to efficiently manage the existing know-how and skills together with new competences taking the technological evolution into consideration. The objective of the platform is to make knowledge-based web-services available to the SMEs, taking a holistic view on the whole supply chain, to diagnose, forecast and manage know-how and competence needs. Such a platform will offer a method, tools and related guidelines dedicated to the diagnostic of future critical know-how shortages and the definition of preventive actions to face them based on an anticipative human resource management methodology including: - An integrated methodology and related product-service for anticipating new/future know-how required to master technological evolutions. - A method and related guidelines dedicated to the diagnostic of the critical know-how detained by SMEs in a given Region/Job/Work position/Competence and enabling the anticipation of possible competence shortages (illness, retirement…).'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Preserving the knowledge of skilled employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is crucial for beating competition and ensuring the sustainability of industry. A new online platform promises to help in this respect.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

For European industry to remain competitive and sustainable it needs to recognise and preserve its unique knowledge. The EU-funded project project PASSAGE gathered five SMEs in the form of textile associations from Bulgaria, Greece, France, Italy and Romania to contribute to this goal. It took the textile industry as a case study of a domain under threat from global competition, developing an online platform to provide SMEs with relevant tools and guidelines. The platform was established to identify businesses' know-how, evaluate their importance, safeguard and strengthen them through improved management of their human resources.

In more detail, the project team built an auto-diagnostic tool to outline SME business strategy and identify jobs affected by it. PASSAGE then developed a tool to evaluate know-how retained by the job positions in a company, building a database of job profiles and data on activities involved in performing these jobs.

Achievements also include mechanisms to identify individuals that retain the most know-how and forecast how long they will remain in the company, as well as tools to capture and store their wisdom. The project's outcomes include guidelines, promotional materials, courses and questionnaires that help fulfil the project's aims. More about these achievements and outcomes can be accessed through the http://www.passage-project.eu (project website) .

PASSAGE can help address several key challenges that SMEs encounter in managing human resources. This includes reversing the loss of critical industrial know-how as employees retire and acquiring know-how to master new techniques and processes. The toolkit also helps improve employees' know-how in order to remain competitive and assists in transferring expertise to colleagues or partners.

These solutions for preserving know-how could be useful not only for SMEs in the textile industry but for those in other sectors as well. This is particularly important since over the coming few years maintaining a professional, skilled and qualified labour force will be a major issue in thousands of European SMEs. With Europe's steadily ageing population, these tools to help document, preserve and transfer know-how couldn't have come at a better time.