Detailed description (English): The SAFE LMD project believes that occupational competences need to be developed and strengthened over time, throughout one's career. Acquiring the required competences for safe and environmental riding is not a one-time event but rather an ongoing process, and provision of formal and informal training helps as a starting point. To help with this, the SAFE LMD competence matrix outlines the skills, knowledge, and behaviours required for workers in bike-based last mile deliveries, enabling them to sustainably and safely carry out urban parcel deliveries with bike-based vehicles. The competence matrix is based on skills, intelligence and core and functional competences. In creating matrices such as this, it is essential to detect and account for new trends and occupational needs in urban and cycle logistics towards sustainable last mile delivery practices.
Check out the first draft on the matrix on safelmd.eu.
Target group(s): Workers, businesses, federations and other organisations within the European Courier, Express and Parcel Services (CEP) industry, particularly those working within cycling logistics.
Objectives: (i) Define EU-wide occupational requirements for LMD cyclists that reflect current needs and shortages in green and safety skills.
(ii) Design and deliver a joint vocational curriculum and educational resources on sustainable and safe bike-based LMD operations to be embedded into existing formal and nonformal training provision.
(iii) Introduce and pilot test flexible training delivery methods and open-access pedagogical resources, to support skills acquisition by LMD cyclists.
(iv) Pave the way for the recognition, validation, integration of new skills requirements and a qualification for LMD cyclists into competence/certification schemes.
Partner: Berliner Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit mbH (BGZ)
European Certification and Qualification Association (ECQA)
European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF)
Exelia E.E. (EXELIA)
Sveučilište u Zagrebu (UZ)