Live work training centres cooperation and development

Abstract

Live work training centres are unique places where electricians learn and develop their professional skills, but also a place where instructors use the latest andragogy approaches and techniques to transfer knowledge. Experts for live work education and training are rare and valuable human resource of every company. Being faced with retirement and other natural workmen fluctuation companies need to find the way to keep these experts with gathered know-how and theoretical knowledge to be able to Live work instructors are allocated either in some company departments or in training and educational centers. In the first case, they are called and engaged from time to time when needed, using company resources and parts of network for training purposes. In the second case, they are constantly engaged in training centre using educational resources and training network-polygon. Live work training centre Live work training centres are facilities that consist of buildings with modern classrooms, training cabinets, tools stockyard, have aerial lift devices at disposal, training network, personnel offices, archive with documentation and tool catalogues, cantina. If they are better equipped you can find useful high voltage laboratory for testing tools and equipment, workshops for tool repair, appropriate accommodation rooms for trainees, even recreation contents for trainee's free time. Usually, training centres employ 10 to 50 people, few instructors and support staff. Not all of training centres have capability to train live work technology for all voltage levels (from 0,4 kV to 400 kV), the most of them have low and medium voltage installations, only few of them have high voltage installations, what is understandable due to the cost and other specific conditions. And how many active training centres for live work technology are in Europe today? It is hard to tell exactly without detailed research, interviewing power companies and their cooperation, but we can estimate this number roughly around 50. When live work technology started in Europe, there was a big demand for transfer it in the future to the new trainees. This paper will try to give some aspects of possible cooperation between training centres through exchange of experts (instructors), technology exchange and development, with possibility of use EU funds for that purpose.