The gender gap widens: The World Economic Forum predicts that the gender gap in employment will not be closed until the year 2133. There are especially critical sectors, such as the industrial sector, which represents 6,4% of the total EU population occupied and is dominated mainly by men(78.4%). In particular, within the foundry sector, the female occupation is so low that there are not even records in this regard. This means that a very high percentage of the population (women)is not accessing the professional opportunities related to the foundry and are underrepresented in many technological and digital professions.(EC-Gender segregation in the labour market).Increasing labour-force participation and raising the employment rate of women is paramount to meeting the Europe 2020 headline target. In this sense, in order to face this global problem, different organisms and public administrations are implementing different measures that until now have not been effective and do not have the expected result. A positive aspect is that, the foundry sector is starting to promote the technological and creative aspects of their operations. Robots are increasingly doing the heavy lifting and hazardous work, so workers don’t need to be a certain height, a certain weight, or have a certain strength to be able to, say, program a CNC machine. Those jobs are open to anyone, and the skill shortage in manufacturing is yet one more reason to work harder to attract women to those positions.For all this,it is necessary to reinforce and look for initiatives to facilitate the access of more women to traditionally male jobs, to the KET and to technological training to ensure the long-term competitiveness of the EU. The European Union estimates that by 2020 90% of the jobs of the future will require digital skills linked to the KETs, so the incorporation of women into studies related to science and technology is critical. CASTWOMAN project aims to contribute to reduce the gender gap in the foundry industry, by highlighting female role models in this professional field and raise awareness among female VET trainees to approach and mobilize the skills and competencies related to KETs to respond the demands to the new century foundries.The main expected result is to develop a multimedia training platform multimedia training platform to provide place and tools to introducing VET female students to non-traditional foundry job paths, fostering the gender-inclusion. The platform is aimed as a tool to empower young women and exploring the range of skills that are needed for a great variety of jobs within the foundry sector, especially those linked to the technologies 4.0.Another results:-Positive female role models in the foundry sector: 15 female workers of the foundry sector will be interviewed to have a clear picture on what set of skills are important and needed to be improved to ensure the success and sustainability of their jobs-Six Foundry Motivation Hub: a set of new dynamic learning spaces for female VET students and female foundry workers to get together, communicate and rise interest in the foundry sector. More than 125 attendants will participate in these forums.-Digital Toolkit for VET trainers and youth career facilitators: a comprehensive career guidance package of resources and training material to empower VET trainers, counselors and career guidance facilitators to find the right kind of information that will benefit the female students by breaking gender stereotypes and facilitating women’s career planning to entry into the foundry market.Expected impact on the main target group: -The VET trainers, facilitators and career guidance facilitators, will have and be trained on the right kind of information and activities to break the gender stereotypes and training resources that will benefit the young women as well as facilitate women’ career planning and entry into the foundry market. -VET female students and young women trainees of non formal VET will be introduced in non-traditional foundry job paths, fostering the gender-inclusion, by empowering them to explore the range of skills that are needed for a great variety of jobs within the foundry sector.Impact on indirect target groups:-VET organisations will update training regarding the main technological trends within the foundry sector and the future jobs, main occupational profiles in KETs within the foundry sector and the most demanded soft and technical skills and competences fostering gender quality in the labour market. -Career counselors and career guidance services providers will be equipped with working tools and materials for the up-to-date jobs and professions within the foundry sector.-Foundries and industrial companies will meet potential new female employees during contact making sessions in valorization events and to have qualified workers, no matter the gender issue.-Female employees of foundries will be visible feminine referents.

Industry is a key element for country development and for employment quality: it provides more qualified and stable jobs than other economic sectors and it has a big multiplier impact being strictly connected to commerce and service sectors. For this reason economists agree that reindustrialization and innovation in industry are today the main key for economic competitiveness.Synthetically, innovation means go to industry 4.0, which consists in: 1) digitalisation and integration of processes vertically and horizontally across the entire organisation; 2) digitalisation of product and service offerings, using big data to refine products and meet the increasing needs of end-customers; 3) digital business models and customer access, optimising customer interaction. The benefits of these transformations are evident: gains in operational efficiency, cost reduction, quality improvement, optimisation of the manufacturers - consumers’ communication, major competitiveness and profits. In Spain, industry represents 15% of GDP and 11.5% of employee people (INE, 2014). The metal sector, which includes foundry industry, covers 44% of industry and 40% of employment. According with J. Mestres Domènech analysis (Macro economy department, CaixaBank, 2016) digitalisation in Spanish industry is really poor and is expected to be slower in Spain than in other world countries, and one of the main causes is the lack of adequate digital culture and training.The main aim of INNORESOLVE project was to transfer the benefits of the digital revolution within the Foundry industry. Thus, target group is the Foundry industry top and intermediate managers to make them ready to face the Foundry 4.0 challenges, but also sectorial organizations that support management training, policy makers and stakeholders in this field. More than 3.000 members of the primary target group were contacted during the project.The main project results:A) INNORESOLVE PBL collaborative e-learning training: a training program based on problem solving methodology. Such training provides required skills and promptly enable management in Foundry industry to cope with the increasingly demanding industrial environment.Activities carried out:- Definition of contents and pathway- Technical definition of training structure and pedagogical approach. - Development of e-learning training content- Development of the learning environment. - Translation of the Online Collaborative Learning Training (EN, ES, PT, IT and RO)- Design of the Pilot testing (evaluation questionnaires and Focus Group guidelines) - Pilot testing activities with 20 professionals of foundry companies in each country, plus an Expert Committee. Each partner elaborated a national report- Adapting and updating to the results of pilot testingB) INNORESOLVE Support Guide: a guide about the new challenges of Foundry in partners countries and a collection of good practices and case studies of Foundries 4.0.Activities carried out:- Definition of Guide’s contents and structure- Design of the case studies research. - Collection of case studies. 48 case studies of technological innovation in foundry industry- Elaboration of the Guide national contents.- Elaboration of the common guide- Translation of the Guide (EN, ES, PT, IT and RO)- Validation of the guide with 20 professionals in each country, plus an Expert Committee. National reports- Adapting and updating to the validation resultsImpact and benefits:1) On participating organizations: improving their knowledge, skills and experience in this field, to both update their training offer and have new resources for dealing with their companies and their national and international network for innovation. Partners are updating their training programs in this new range of skills and competencies related to (KET) for advanced manufacturing, updating the professional profiles required by industries. 2) Target groups: improving their skills and knowledge concerning Industry 4.0; INNORESOLVE motivated and enabled them to afford digitalisation and acceleration processes in their companies. Most of them considered that the INNORESOLVE training course manages to provide support in understanding the benefits of digitalization, being very easy to study and of use even for persons not so familiarized with this concept, as it provides a very good overview of the Industry 4.0, starting from its origins, then moving on the impact on companies and people (HH.RR.), finally moving to technologies. 3) Other relevant stakeholders (other industry representatives, organisations and institutions at national and international level, managers of other industry sectors, industrial confederations, public or private organisations committed with industry’s innovation and competitiveness, training providers, etc.). They were invited to test and use the final project products to boost innovation and digitalisation of secondary sector at all levels.