SOKO 3D – Social Skills in the 3D Printer educational Project

The digitalisation of the working world (e.g. in format of virtual working groups), mixed skills teams, flat hierarchies and decentral decision-making processes emphasise the importance of social competences as a central “Work-Enabler”. In the future working world, especially in the mechanical and plant engineering, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral cooperation as well as working in mixed skills and heterogeneous teams will be an everyday routine.

Furthermore, in a heterogeneous staff among other things questions of ethical, linguistic and religious boundaries are becoming virulent. Therefore, intercultural, discrimination-sensitive skills are becoming a central component of the social competence of trainees and trainers. Social competence is therefore more than an add-on. It owns moreover a functional relevance for education as well as for the development of vocational acting competence. The social competences in the project are encouraged through exemplary development, implementation and evaluation of the interdisciplinary apprenticeship and learning project “Development and Construction of a 3D-Printer”.