Human Resources as a Success Factor for a Future Sustainable, Integrate and Competitive Transport and Logistics System

Summary:

According to the study ‘A sustainable future for transport: Towards an integrated, technology-led and user-friendly system’ and COM(2009) 279 (final) of 17 June 2009, from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport, transport is said to be the backbone of the European economy, accounting for about 7% of GDP and more than 5% of total employment in the EU.

As a network industry, transport requires elements such as infrastructures, vehicles, equipment, ICT applications and operational procedures to interact smoothly in order to move people and goods efficiently, including an appropriate and innovative management of human resources for future scenarios.

And today, transport is at a transition point. Transport and Logistics system in Europe is facing many changes, threats and its future is still unknown.

The project HUMAN LOGISTICS consists on approaching the Future Sustainability of Transport in Europe (focusing in the Atlantic Area), by the participation of one of its basics elements in the value chain: the Human Resources.

In this sense, the project aims to contribute to the improvement of Transport and Logistics, considering sustainability, intermodality and competitiveness as musts, by means of human resources training and awareness.

Specific objectives will be the following:

-          Increase the quality of jobs in the sector and the competitiveness of each job position, including that of the entrepreneurs.

-          Promote the mobility of workers.

-          Identify new emerging jobs for the sector.

-          Promote the cooperation between companies.

-          Promote the gender equity and facilitate the involvement of women in activities normally developed by men in this sector.

The project envisages the following activities to achieve the results:

-          Training for professionals and entrepreneurs in the new tools and mechanisms needed to face the changes in the sector, including gender equity and environmental workshops.

-          Identification of emerging jobs and preparation of an adequate training for potential workers, including gender equity selection from the beginning.

-          Exchange of professionals and entrepreneurs between companies from different regions and countries in the Atlantic Area, to increase knowledge on methods developed by other companies and in other regions.

-          Organisation of practices (mobility training) for future professionals.

-          Creation of an exchange knowledge and resources platform between companies.

-          Organisation of study visits to other countries facilities, to increase knowledge and promote cooperation between companies.

Lead Partner: Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Shipping of Seville (Spain)

Contact: Pablo Morales, email: pablo.morales@camaradesevilla.com and pablo_morales2@hotmail.com. Tel.: +34 955110922.

Partners envisaged: partners from France, Ireland and the United Kingdom, with competences to develop the activities described above or with a special competence in one or more of these activities. Portuguese and Spanish partners already involved.