Summary
Thanks to its continuous interaction with companies (large groups, SMEs and start-ups), with research and training centres, and with regional and local institutions, Opticsvalley has been in a perfect position to identify the needs for life-long education. This interaction revealed the lack of communication between industry representatives and training centres.
Opticsvalley is in the process of developing a life-long training platform, and is the leader of the project.
The platform involves the Paris Region training centres that offer optics training programmes, such as:
The objective of such cooperation is to increase the visibility of and easy access to information regarding such life-long training programmes, and to better match the training programmes with the industry’s needs.
So far, approximately 10 training centres have joined the project.
Opticsvalley’s project comprises two activities:
- qualifying of the existing training programmes (markets, targets, training levels, etc) and
- compiling a list of training needs from companies in the optics industry.
This work will allow Opticsvalley to identify the gap between the existing training programmes and industrial needs, hence to implement a cooperation strategy between training centres in order to fill the gap.
