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The article addresses the spatial data manager domain in local self-government units. The scope of the article comprehends typical tasks and required competences for conducting the usual spatial data manager job tasks in local self-government. Furthermore, in the research described in the article, the tasks are systematized and mapped with required competences. Based on the research on tasks and required competences, two types of profiles of spatial data managers in local self-government with its specializations are proposed and described, which are recommended to be considered when developing both, occupation standard and qualification standard of spatial data managers.

Improving the long-term stability of perovskite solar cells is critical to the deployment of this technology. Despite the great emphasis laid on stability-related investigations, publications lack consistency in experimental procedures and parameters reported. It is therefore challenging to reproduce and compare results and thereby develop a deep understanding of degradation mechanisms. Here, we report a consensus between researchers in the field on procedures for testing perovskite solar cell stability, which are based on the International Summit on Organic Photovoltaic Stability (ISOS) protocols. We propose additional procedures to account for properties specific to PSCs such as ion redistribution under electric fields, reversible degradation and to distinguish ambient-induced degradation from other stress factors. These protocols are not intended as a replacement of the existing qualification standards, but rather they aim to unify the stability assessment and to understand failure modes. Finally, we identify key procedural information which we suggest reporting in publications to improve reproducibility and enable large data set analysis., This article is based upon work from COST Action StableNextSol MP1307 supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). M.V.K., E.A.K., V.B. and A.O. thank the financial support of the United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation (grant no. 2015757). E.A.K., A.A. and I.V.-F. acknowledge partial support from the SNaPSHoTs project in the framework of the German-Israeli bilateral R&D cooperation in the field of applied nanotechnology. M.S.L. thanks the financial support of National Science Foundation (ECCS, award #1610833). S.C., M.Manceau and M.Matheron thank the financial support of European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 763989 (APOLO project). F.D.R. and T.M.W. would like to acknowledge the support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre (EP/N020863/1) and express their gratitude to the Welsh Government for their support of the Ser Solar programme. P.A.T. acknowledges financial support from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 19-73-30020). J.K. acknowledges the support by the Solar Photovoltaic Academic Research Consortium II (SPARC II) project, gratefully funded by WEFO. M.K.N. acknowledges financial support from Innosuisse project 25590.1 PFNM-NM, Solaronix, Aubonne, Switzerland. C.-Q.M. would like to acknowledge The Bureau of International Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences for the support of ISOS11 and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China for the financial support (no. 2016YFA0200700). N.G.P. acknowledges financial support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grants funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT Future Planning (MSIP) of Korea under contracts NRF-2012M3A6A7054861 and NRF-2014M3A6A7060583 (Global Frontier R&D Program on Center for Multiscale Energy System). CSIRO’s contribution to this work was conducted with funding support from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) through its Advancing Renewables Program. A.F.N gratefully acknowledges support from FAPESP (Grant 2017/11986-5) and Shell and the strategic importance of the support given by ANP (Brazil’s National Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency) through the R&D levy regulation. Y.-L.L. and Q.B. acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation under award no. 1824674. S.D.S. acknowledges the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (HYPERION, grant agreement no. 756962), and the Royal Society and Tata Group (UF150033). The work at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory was supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) under contract DE-AC36-08GO28308 with Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC, the manager and operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The authors (J.J.B, J.M.L., M.O.R, K.Z.) acknowledge support from the ‘De-risking halide perovskite solar cells’ program of the National Center for Photovoltaics, funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Solar Energy Technology Office. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the US Government. H.J.S. acknowledges the support of EPSRC UK, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. V.T. and M.Madsen acknowledge ‘Villum Foundation’ for funding of the project CompliantPV, under project no. 13365. M.Madsen acknowledges Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond, DFF FTP for funding of the project React-PV, no. 8022-00389B. M.G. and S.M.Z. thank the King Abdulaziz City for Science and technology (KACST) for financial support. S.V. acknowledges TKI-UE/Ministry of Economic Affairs for financial support of the TKI-UE toeslag project POP-ART (no. 1621103). RC thanks the grants for Development of New Faculty Staff, Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund. A.D.C. gratefully acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (grant agreement no. 785219-GrapheneCore2 and no. 764047-ESPResSo). M.L.C. and H.X. acknowledges the support from Spanish MINECO for the grant GraPErOs (ENE2016-79282-C5-2-R), the OrgEnergy Excellence Network CTQ2016-81911- REDT, the Agència de Gestiód’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) for the support to the consolidated Catalonia research group 2017 SGR 329 and the Xarxa de Referència en Materials Avançats per a l’Energia (Xarmae). ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MINECO (Grant no. SEV-2017-0706) and is funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya.

The FRAMEWORK (OKVIR) project was carried out in 2015 and 2016 with the aim to adapt undergraduate and graduate civil engineering studies in Croatia to modern labor market needs and educational qualification standards in Europe. The project was co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) through the Human Resources Development Operational Program 2007- 2013. Planned permanent results of the project were the establishment of qualification standards for undergraduate and graduate university studies of civil engineering based on learning outcomes and improvement of teaching competences through teachers’ education. Authors of the article researched and analyzed current status of Framework project’s results in 2019, three years after its completion, based on achievements stated in the proposal and final report of the project. A discussion of theinteraction of the Croatian Qualification Framework development (CROQF) at national level with Framework project’s specific elements and phases was conducted and resulting shortcomings were presented and explained. Finally, guidelines and recommendations on how to fully accomplish goals set within the Framework project were outlined for the future period, accentuating the importance of introducing different stakeholders in the process by networking higher education and labor market in the field of construction.

In June, 2015 at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology implementation of project "Development of Qualification Standards and Undergraduate Study Programs of Faculty at Textile Technology ", code HR 3.1.15-0026 has started. The project is co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund (ESF). The project is at the European level in compliance with the Europe 2020 Strategy, which advocates development of society based on knowledge and innovation and the objectives related to employment and education. The overall objective of the Project is to improve the quality of higher education in the field of the textile technology and engineering, as well as textile and fashion design, through development and implementation of the Croatian Qualifications Framework. This paper describes some of activities, goals and first outcomes of the implemented project activities, such as improving of teaching competences through learning outcomes for creating qualification standards, preliminary activities which were important for development of qualification standards and implementation of measures for improving of the students' success.

This paper describes the potential applications of a Simulation Fidelity Rating (SFR) scale, to support the subjective assessment of rotorcraft training simulators. In this paper, the SFR scale has been used to examine pilot sensitivity and subsequent task strategy adaptation to simulator transport delay variations in the Precision Hover manoeuvre. The current FAA AC 120-63 and JAR-FSTD H simulator qualification standards requires a transport delay of no more than 100ms to meet the most stringent Level D criteria. The study has highlighted that the majority of the evaluation pilots indicated that transport delays of this order would compromise the utility of the simulator to provide training for the Precision Hover manoeuvre. For an additional 100ms transport delay, the pilot's SFRs ranged from Level 1 fidelity (simulation fit for purpose) to Level 3 fidelity (simulation not fit for purpose). The factors influencing the SFRs awarded, and their impact on the application of the SFR scale, are discussed in this paper. The methodology detailed in this paper has potential for more objective quantification of the utility of rotorcraft training simulators. Copyright ©2012 by the American Helicopter Society Inc. All rights reserved., American Helicopter Society 68th Annual Forum, May 1-3, 2012, Fort Worth, TX, USA