SERAS project (acronym of “Single European Railway Area of Skills Alliance”) is funded under the ERASMUS+ programme, call “Lot 2: Alliances for Sectoral Cooperation on Skills (implementing the ‘Blueprint’ (ERASMUS-EDU-2025-PI-ALL-INNO-BLUEPRINT).
Project Coordinator: Prof. Angela Di Febbraro (University of Genoa)
SERAS objectives:
Building on the long-term strategy and action plan and policy recommendations of the RAIL STAFFER Blueprint, SERAS will implement Blueprint by establishing a Pact for Skills in the Rail Sector, ensuring long-term impact in alignment with EU policies, instruments objectives.
SERAS has the overarching goal of creating a sustainable and integrated European ecosystem for railway skills enhancement for the sector, ensuring a resilient, skilled, and mobile workforce across the EU.
SERAS key objectives are:
(1) Sustaining and expanding the Single European Railway Area of Skills Alliance by strengthening cooperation between industry, education providers, and social partners by a Rail Sector Pact for Skills, ensuring stable governance and long-term funding vis-à-vis main rail related EU institutions and players.
(2) Tackling workforce shortages and skills gaps by implementing the STAFFER action plan and policy recommendations of improving employability attractiveness, fostering diversity and promoting railway careers, especially for youth, women, and underrepresented groups.
(3) Providing skills intelligence and forecasting by implementing a comprehensive approach and methodology to anticipate workforce and skills needs in the railways sector.
(4) Create innovations in railway education and training by modular, micro-credential-based curricula aligned with European policy standards and tools and creating a European Rail Skills Academy.
(5) Promoting workforce mobility and recognition of skills in the Single European Rail Area by creating a European Rail Skills Academy and the mobility of initial learners, trainees, students, trainers and professional staff.
Project keywords: Rail Skills Alliance, Rail Skill Intelligence, Single European Rail Area, Digital rail, Green rail skills, Virtual rail academy, Employability, Diversity, Inclusion, Sustainability
The project Partners: The SERAS Consortium brings together 22 partners, among which ERCI (acting through DITECFER) and MAFEX.
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