Why Metalcert?

• The metal sector is undergoing important transformations and it is facing them from a weak position: in front of the technological evolution, competitiveness, internationalisation, delocalisation, organisational changes, the sector is old, masculine, with scarce qualification, small business structures.
• M. Porter Competitive Strengths: higher rivalry in the sector, Threat of new admissions, higher negotiating power of clients and suppliers.
• These changes and transformations compose a complex (many variables), dynamic (quick changes) and uncertain (unpredictable) panorama .
• The professional certification systems privilege the traditional ways of learning, compared with other ways to acquire competences. As a consequence, those that have learnt by experience have a “hidden curriculum”
• The productive system is particularly interested in productive processes and in competences. They do not rely on certificates due to their theoretical character, not real.
• A recognition system should have reliable and valid tools to measure; besides, this information must be credible for the different agents. It is similar to a “coin”.
• An evaluation device should combine quality of the measuring system and credibility in its results as predictors of the professional performance.

• The need to face structural changes
• The needs for recognition of other learning systems
• The need to create synergies between diplomas/certificates and professionalism/knowledge.
• The need for devices valorising the best evaluation practices in cooperation of all the involved agents in the sector.

• "METALcert” Transnational Association has been constituted to improve the qualification transparency and the quality in continuing training from transnational cooperation, social dialogue and the valorisation of the best practices.
• We are willing to create and validate transnationally a certification device for the most relevant competences, associated to the processes that are the most sensitive to changes in the metal sector, in 24 months. And we also want that these results are validated and verified by our clients.

• Improve the quality of continuing vocational training
• Encourage the qualification transparency
• Equal opportunities for women and men
• Promotion of social dialogue in vocational training
• Contribute to the European dimension in training. Transnationality.
• Development of Innovation
• Valorisation and transfer of the best practices

• Companies in the metal sector
• Business associations
• Public organisations and institutions of qualification and accreditation
• Trade unions and legal representation of workers
• Workers in the metal sector
• Vocational Training Centres