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KUBIX - Denmark
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Kubix works with development of human resources. We carry out development oriented projects in the following fields:
Kubix focuses on qualification development and learning processes in working life. Based on an industrial sociology approach, our consultancy and analyses are founded on a solid knowledge of the internal life and procedures in an enterprise. We find the work functions and work function analyses central in understanding which qualifications employees need in their working life. In addition, we also work with more subjective perspectives of qualification development related to the individual employee.
Kubix is involved in the development of vocational training plans. We undertake qualification analyses within certain trades or sectors and afterwards make recommendations for the decision makers within the field of development of vocational and educational training. Based on the analyses, we sometimes are subsequently directly involved in the process of planning initial vocational education and continuing vocational training.
An essential part of Kubix’ work is to assist enterprises and the vocational training systems in their mutual interplay. One of our most important points in relation to continuing vocational training is to make a better connection between the in-house learning processes in the enterprises and the training courses in the training institutions. This means that external vocational training has to make sense to the individual employee in relation to the daily work and that the enterprise has to provide conditions for the employee to use the newly obtained knowledge after the course. This requires that enterprises and training institutions are willing to cooperate closely. Kubix’ part in the process is to enhance this interplay and to contribute to the development of the right settings.
Kubix assists in developing projects regarding work organization in private and public enterprises. We act as process consultants in developing processes furthering active participation of the employees and changes in work organization.
Within the above described fields we are working with several types of activities including analyses, evaluation, research and development of methods and tools. We perform various tasks for the social partners, regional and national authorities, and private and public enterprises, and Kubix is often involved in dissemination of project results to a wide range of target groups.
To Kubix it is especially important to work with a combination of two types of activities:
Based on our knowledge of how enterprises function, we carry out analyses focussing on how to improve the vocational training system.
The projects focus on the internal development in the enterprise. This also includes considerations on the interplay between the enterprise and the vocational training system.
Both types of activities deal with issues crossing the sphere of private enterprises and the sphere of the vocational education and training system, but the priorities in the activities are different.
The crux of Kubix' methods and ways of working is that knowledge about the private sector is combined with knowledge of the public vocational training system. On this back-ground we are able to contribute to the communication between the two sectors which often do not speak the same language.
We know that consultancy regarding organizational development implies development of one’s own resources.
Therefore, Kubix as an organization is based on the principles of enriching working life and the learning organisation.
We also know that cooperation with others is a central way of learning. This means that we cooperate closely with national and international researchers and consultants.
Kubix is engaged in a number of international activities:
Coordination of an Adapt financed development and implementation of a new concept for the Danish AMU system with sparring from and dissemination to QCA, UK; Studio Meta, Italy; CEDEFOP; WIFO Berlin; ZAP, Germany. A homepage about this work is available on the web, as part of a growing family of thematic resource bases related to Cedra/ERO.
Coordination of a Leonardo project on how to keep dynamics from pilot projects after the project period. Results are presented in a CD-ROM with a catalogue of ideas regarding factors hindering and promoting continuing learning processes. With partners from Germany, Iceland, Norway, and Denmark.
Coordination of a Leonardo project for European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) with the partners bfz Bildungsforschung Nürnberg and the Unión General de Trabajadores of Spain.
Bruno Clematide, Kubix, is a member of the Steering Committee of CEDEFOP’s project on Key Qualifications.
Bruno Clematide, Kubix, is a member of the DG Research expert group "Competitive and sustainable production and related service industries in Europe: challenges and objectives for EU research policy". The expert group should provide concrete and operational guidance for the definition of an effective EU research and innovation policy, aimed at promoting the competitiveness and sustainable growth of traditional industrial production sectors in Europe. The work of the expert group has resulted in the following publication: Sustainable Production - challenges & objectives for EU Research Policy, EUR 19880. European Communities, 2001.
Approximately ten researchers from Roskilde University Centre, Copenhagen School of Business, the Danish University of Education, Aalborg University, Aalborg Teacher's Training College and Kubix have formed a group of senior researchers, who will all be part of the Ministry of Education project in different settings. It is the predominant purpose of the "Workplace Learning" consortium to investigate, initiate, develop and communicate projects and conditions concerning vocational learning processes and competence development for adults. The core activities of the consortium will be to explore the learning processes that take place, when "workers" develop competencies on-the-job and in the formal educational system, and not least the interaction between the two ways. Furthermore it will be essential for the consortium to understand competence development in the context of the massive changes in the labour market and of the political conditions. This research is embedded in Learning Lab Denmark.
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