About Project

About Project

The Hol Up Project aimed to upskill competences of SMEs, VET Institutions and VET Providers in a holistic way in order to prepare them to the future works in the digital era.

The Project had focused on these two issues:

  1. What kind of jobs will the market need in the next few years?
  2. What kind of competence does the educational organizations need to teach?

For the first question, It could be said that forthcoming employment needs a high level of knowledge and skills and constant assets in education was required in order to deal with the rate of change brought about by developments in digital technology. Besides, for the second question it was possible to point that skills could be supported through the true training and development, environment and culture, and performance-management approach. In this regard, since education and training has been identified as one of the most critical factors shaping workforce outcomes in the future, upskilling policy of SMEs or individuals were the main milestone of this project.

Hol Up Project’s outputs worked not only with SMEs to help them develop their future workforce, meeting their current and future needs, but also with VET institutions and VET providers to mitigate their inefficiencies on shaping the future workforce in SMEs.