Building Sustainable Relationships between Educational and Air Transport Logistics Providers

Abstract

As the competences of the people involved-in play a pivotal role in supply chain and logistics, this paper highlights that rather than offering top-down answers to challenges supply chain and logistics sector face, a better idea is to prompt a sharing of experiences, of ideas and of methodological tools which allows the development of sustainable relationships between training providers and the supply chain, as a complex set of entities and systems, the air transport being one of those. Considering this is a moment in education for sustainability research and practice when both researchers and practitioners are thirsty for new models of qualifications’ description that could be more practical, far-reaching, and reflective in helping them move beyond the traditional approach, this paper presents the theoretical and methodological components of a qualification framework and a case-study on using it when designing a study program for one of the new qualifications which require digital and soft skills as creativity, autonomy, self-management, team research and work, interdisciplinary competences. As a free and open tool, it is accessible to every member in higher educational community and can be adapted to the needs of any tertiary education study program. The main benefit of the Qualification Framework Methodology, developed for Air Transport Industry, is that its basic principles, those of fair and transparent description of a certain qualification’ competences in terms of learning outcomes, can be used in any field of studies and in any cycle of higher education studies, and can be applied to any type of education: formal, non-formal and informal and to any environment of learning: traditional, blended, online or virtual reality.