The Leonardo da Vinci Project's aim is to generate, with the help of it's partners, a European Reference Model (ERM) for the education and training of control room operators in the chemical and process industries.
Globalisation has increasingly led to common international competence requirements for process operators, especially within petrochemical, pharmaceutical, chemical companies and process industries. Product quality standards have become international standards, but presently within Europe there is no common training or competence standard for the control room staff that actually operate the plant.
An ERM defines the total training and assessed competence requirement for an operator. This shows the common national standards instead of the differences. Specific competence or training shortfalls compared to a particular national requirement may be corrected locally to meet the standard in that country.
An ERM can also optimise formal vocational Training by focussing on alternative acceptable qualification pathways. These could include academic or industry based learning but also the recognition and validation of prior learning and informal learning.
To access the working Leonardo Wheel including information, training providers and standards, please visit the Leonardo da Vinci project website.
