FUTURAIL - Job Opportunities for the Railway Community of Tomorrow
Overview
Background & policy context:
The railways and their staff are facing crucial changes that will determine the future of this important sector. These changes have implications on technological, demographic, structural, legal and regulatory domains.
FUTURAIL dealt with making railways a more competitive and innovative sector. Rail Transport is therefore striving to improve its attractiveness, and be an affordable, safe, clean, competitive and reliable transport mode. FUTURAIL is oriented towards the future. To be competitive, there is a need for training and education programmes to support this vision.
FUTURAIL focused on the developments of the sector. It matched demand and supply of the required skills and competencies. Rail transport is important in Europe. European rail needs to upgrade its knowledge, skills and competencies by attracting new talented and skilled staff to face the challenges of the sector.
Objectives:
Main objectives of FUTURAIL were the dissemination of social, economic and industrial benefits of education and research in the railway sector.
FUTURAIL's goal was to make railways a more competitive and innovative sector. The aim was to offer an even more attractive, affordable, safe, clean, competitive and reliable transport mode. To be competitive, the focus was on training and education programmes to support this vision. Demand and supply of the required skills and competencies need matching. Attracting new talented and skilled staff able to handle the challenges of the sector.
FUTURAIL relies on the experience and objectives of the EURNEX network, with its extensive data collection available in its knowledge centre. FUTURAIL transformed this material into valuable inputs, like:
- Disseminate the social, economic and industrial benefits of education and research in the railway sector and promote the idea that society needs advanced technologies and further education as applied to a highly innovative and technological developed sector.
- Identify and develop actions promoting and supporting women participation for the benefit of outstanding railway transports research.
Methodology:
FUTURAIL was managed in a decentralised way, yet keeping a high degree of transparency and accountability. This is possible due to the extensive experience of all partners in the previous research projects and platforms. The management was divided in two streams: a vertical one linking the overall project coordination with the WP leadership, and a horizontal stream ensuring the consistency of objectives between the work developed in all WPs.
Activities are concentrated in WP1 'Science, research and innovation: Dissemination', in WP2 'Mainstreaming Gender Balance as a resource for railway transports research' and WP3 'Railway and economics sector for the future'.
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