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A collection of tests is available to be used by school counsellors and students to assess aptitudes and skills.
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Abilities Tests
These tests, produced by the project experts, have been designed to unveil students’ abilities.
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Database of Aptitudes Tests
These tests, identified and reviewed by the project experts, measure the aptitude of the students.
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Database of Skills Tests
These tests, identified and reviewed by the project experts, measure the skills of the students
This section offers the access to a collection of tools to guide the students to choose their professional carrier.
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Job Profiles
The most researched job profiles have been identified in 6 countries.
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Skills
The most relevant skills for the labour market in the 6 countries involved have been identified.
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Entrepreneurship
From this section it is possible to access learning objects to promote entrepreneurial spirit among students.
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Successful Entrepreneurs
A collection of interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Successful Employees
A collection of interviews with successful employees.
Successful People
A collection of interviews with successful people.Six training modules are available for school teachers and counsellors to provide them with the skills to guide students in their professional carrier.
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1. Understanding Pupils
A module presenting the strategies to understand the pupils' personal aptitudes and characteristics
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2. Capitalise on Pupils Interests and Skills
A module presenting methodologies to build up on the students' interests in order to implement personalised educational paths
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3. World of Work
A module presenting tools and mechanisms available for young people to make a successful transition from school to work
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4. Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools
A module presenting initiatives and strategies to foster entrepreneurship among students
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5. Mobility to Learn and Work
A module presenting the opportunities to study, carry out voluntary services and work experiences abroad
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6. Guidance, Counselling and Support Services
A module focusing on how to provide effective guidance, counselling and support to students
Events
The School&Work project has been promoted trough conferences and articles.
Conferences
The School&Work project was presented in a number of events in order to report about the activities carried out and the results achieved.
Press Review
The School&Work project partnership made contacts with web sites focusing on the fields of education.Network
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Contractual Partners
From this section it is possible to access to a description of each contractual partner of the School&Work project.
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the schools involved in the School&Work Project in the 6 European countries involved.
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Associated Partners
As a result of the exploitation activity a number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups and to ensure the project sustainability by continuing using the project deliverables in the next years.
This section of the School&Work portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission and it is password protected.
Skills& Jobs
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Job Profiles
The most researched job profiles have been identified in 6 countries. For every profile, the related skills have been listed.
Teachers and school counsellors should use the information provided to enhance students' motivation underlining the consistency between what is learnt at school and the skills required by the labour market.
For every country the most researched job profiles are presented providing information on the related qualifications, knowledge, skills, competences and personal attitude.
NAME OF THE JOB PROFILE:Roofer
Description of the job profile
The roofer is a skilled worker with the following tasks: making and renovating traditional and metallic roof covering. Installing isolation roof accessories. Installing solar panels.In details:
- Installing the roof complex (sub roof, airtightness film, isolation)
- Making different traditional or metallic roof covers
- Installing rainwater evacuation systems and their support
- Installing and waterproofing different roof elements (flashing, penetrations)
- Making several types of cladding
- Installing roof equipment (solar panels, lightning rods, antennas)
- Disposing existing roof elements and carrying out simple structure works during transformations and renovations
- Participating in the supplying of materials to construction sites and installing specific machines and equipment
- Participating in the organisation of collective and individual security on the construction site in accordance with the security-hygiene-environment plan.
This is a varied work that requires appropriate tools and installation techniques and that offers a lot of work possibilities.
The roofer practices under the responsibility of a superior, in a team of workers with the same job or in a multidisciplinary team.
This work is complementary with that of damp-proofer (professional who puts proofing products or coating to damp proof construction elements such as roofs, terraces, cisterns, tanking, bridge decks…).
The work is mostly outdoor, on construction or renovation sites. It involves travelling from the company office or from a supplying location to the construction site.
Private companies are the main employers of roofers. They are often specialised in metallic or non-metallic covering. Many roofers are also self-employed entrepreneurs.
Economical sectorSecondary, Tertiary
CountryBelgium
Qualifications requiredVocational upper secondary, fully accredited education, “construction” section.
They are few fully accredited institutions that train roofers in French-speaking Belgium.
Training can be achieved in other networks and channels:
- Sandwich course (in CEFA) that combines mainstream and technical education with a practice in a company. A pedagogical team accompanies, supports and guides the student in all the aspects of their project. Same modules as in fully accredited education.
- Sandwich course for self-employed and small and medium-seized enterprises (IFAPME), which proposes learning modules and management training.
- Forem (public service for employment and training in Wallonia) also provides training in eight centres throughout Wallonia. Trainees are trained for 26 weeks.
- Job seekers between 18 and 25, without a construction degree can be trained in a specific channel called RAC (“Régime Apprentissage Construction”).
- People above 18 who have learnt the job through practice can have their skills officially recognised through skill validation.
Installation as a self-employed worker is regulated. One has to meet the requirements of access to the profession. This access is ruled by the decree of the 29th of January 2007 regarding professional skills for roofing and damp-proofing activities
They are few fully accredited institutions that train roofers in French-speaking Belgium.
Training can be achieved in other networks and channels:
- Sandwich course (in CEFA) that combines mainstream and technical education with a practice in a company. A pedagogical team accompanies, supports and guides the student in all the aspects of their project. Same modules as in fully accredited education.
- Sandwich course for self-employed and small and medium-seized enterprises (IFAPME), which proposes learning modules and management training.
- Forem (public service for employment and training in Wallonia) also provides training in eight centres throughout Wallonia. Trainees are trained for 26 weeks.
- Job seekers between 18 and 25, without a construction degree can be trained in a specific channel called RAC (“Régime Apprentissage Construction”).
- People above 18 who have learnt the job through practice can have their skills officially recognised through skill validation.
Installation as a self-employed worker is regulated. One has to meet the requirements of access to the profession. This access is ruled by the decree of the 29th of January 2007 regarding professional skills for roofing and damp-proofing activities
Knowledge| Knowledge |
Description | Level |
| Graphics and design | Technical drawing | Level 4 |
| Knowledge of materials/goods and techniques/procedures | Products and materials (characteristics, weight load, composition, function, resistance of materials...) | Level 4 |
| Law | Safety standard (prescriptions on dangerous products, use of scaffolding, ladders, harnesses...); Law (security, health, well-being at work, ergonomics, hygiene and environment) | Level 4 |
| Sciences and Mathematics | Mathematics (good knowledge in geometry, metrics, technical design) | Level 4 |
| Specific knowledge | Knowledge of the sector of activity (terminology…) | Level 4 |
| Using of technical tools | Specific activities (techniques and operational mode to set the roof, application of insulation material, completion...) | Level 4 |
Skills| Skill |
Description | Level |
| Decision making | Acting within the limits of one’s function: informing one’s superior of problems encountered and security flaws, choosing and applying techniques and procedures within the limits of the superior’s instructions | Level 4 |
| Graphics | Plans reading and interpreting (decoding a plan, a blueprint) | Level 4 |
| Managing safety rules | Risks prevention awareness (choosing the protection that is best adapted to the task and work location, using work equipment high up safely) | Level 4 |
| Manual dexterity | Manual dexterity: shaping elements of the framework, proportioning, cutting, assembling, placing tiles and slates, basic masonry… | Level 4 |
| Organisational skills | Managing one’s work station (supplying, cleaning and ordering the workstation and tools) | Level 4 |
| Using of technical tools | Machinery handling (machine-tools such as press brakes, rolling device, blowtorch) | Level 4 |
Competences| Competence |
Description | Level |
| Analytical thinking | Diagnosis, analysis of the situation (general condition of the roofing, elements to be preserved, to be replaced, interventions to be performed depending on the condition of the roofing or in view of accessory laying …) | Level 4 |
| Initiative/entrepreneurship | Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship (running an installation project on one’s own, engager and managing staff, using innovative products…) | Level 4 |
| Problem solving | Handling problems (reacting appropriately in case of incident/accident, suggesting alternative solutions to one’s superior...) | Level 4 |
| Self-development | Self-development (keeping informed about the evolution of the trade and its materials) | Level 4 |
| Teamworking | Team work (working in teams, planning together with other trades) | Level 4 |
| Time management | Planning one’s work (phasing, performance time, constraints) | Level 4 |
Personal AttitudeThe roofer must be able to work in particular conditions:
• Moving high up
• Proximity of emptiness (no vertigo)
• Outdoor work, whatever the weather: in the rain or in the wind, in summer and winter (good physical resistance, putting up with the heat and bad weather)
They must be agile, have a sense of balance and be able to work in particular positions (crouching, kneeling).
They must have gestural ability and dexterity.
• Moving high up
• Proximity of emptiness (no vertigo)
• Outdoor work, whatever the weather: in the rain or in the wind, in summer and winter (good physical resistance, putting up with the heat and bad weather)
They must be agile, have a sense of balance and be able to work in particular positions (crouching, kneeling).
They must have gestural ability and dexterity.
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