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Partners in the project

The 6 partners in the Railsafe2 project come from 5 different countries. The partners jointly cover all the expertise needed to execute the project: a contractor building railways, a consultant on quality and harmonisation in welding, a European organisation representing welding institutes and welding institutes themselves with expertise in education, training, qualification and certification of welders.

The project is being managed by TWI, which has a long and successful track record in managing such projects. The project is being co-ordinated by Ir. J.B. van den Brug Raadgevend Ingenieur (RI), an engineering consultancy firm with international experience in the development of quality management systems for harmonised education in welding.

Anacronym	Company Name	Country	Web Page	Contact Person
TWI Ltd	The Welding Institue	UK	www.twi.co.uk	Tim J Jessop
RI	Ir. J.B. van den Brug Raadgevend Ingenieur	Nerderland		Hans van den Brug
EWF	European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting	Portugal	www.ewf.be	Luisa Quintino
ISQ	Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade	Portugal	www.isq.pt	Octávio Lopes
SWC	Svetskommissionen (Swedish Welding Commission)	Sweden	www.svets.se	Per Westerhult

ISIM	NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE ÎN SUDURA SI ÎNCERCARI DE MATERIALE (NATIONAL R&D INSTITUTE FOR WELDING AND MATERIAL TESTING)	Romania	www.isim.ro	Mr. Horia Dascau

Partners Description

TWI Ltd (promoter)

TWI (The Welding Institute) is one of Europe's largest independent research and technology organisations.
It is the only single source of expertise in every aspect of joining technology for engineering materials.

TWI is internationally renowned for bringing together multidisciplinary teams to implement established or
advanced joining technology, or to solve problems arising at any stage from initial design, materials selection,
production and quality assurance, through to service performance and repair.

Over 400 skilled staff are dedicated to helping industry apply all forms of technology safely and efficiently.

Some 3.000 companies and organisations, representing virtually all sectors of manufacturing industry from over
50 countries around the globe, benefit from TWI services.

TWI is host to the Institute of Rail Welding, an organisation of over 900 members dedicated to the adoption of
best practice in rail welding.

Ir. J.B. van den Brug Raadgevend Ingenieur (RI) (Co-ordinator)

Ir.J.B. van den Brug Raadgevend Ingenieur is a registered consulting engineering firm.
Its role in the project is to prepare, guide, coordinate and control the progress and quality of all project activities,
to prepare and conduct the workshops and meetings and to draft the curriculum guideline.

J. (Hans) B. van den Brug directs and owns this consultancy firm, which works on knowledge transfer in welding.
He is past managing director of the Nederlands Instituut voor Lastechniek (Netherlands Institute of Welding),
where he set-up the quality system for the certification of welding personnel.

He is past president of the European Welding Federation, where he is has been active in the harmonisation of
education, qualification and certification of welding personnel in Europe.

Lately RI directed the Planning and Implementation Group of the International Institute of Welding to
harmonise the education and qualification of welding personnel worldwide.

European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting (European Welding Federation) (EWF)

EWF is an international non-profit association whose principal aims are:

- to collaborate in the study and solution of welding-related problems encountered within its fields of
competence;

- to contribute to the removal of technical barriers;

- to act as the representative of the welding community in Europe.

EWF, in conjunction with the relevant national welding institutes and organisations of 27 European countries,
has made great efforts in the up dating and harmonisation of training and education in the field of welding
technology. It was a pioneering organisation in education and qualification, developing the first truly harmonised
scheme embracing all European countries for the training of personnel at all levels, from crafts people to
professional engineers.

It started in the 1980’s an analysis of the existing levels of education in welding in the EU and EFTA countries
and, upon the results, it was possible to define common harmonised levels of education, training and
qualification.

The EWF Committee for Education and Training has prepared Guidelines of courses, giving the contents in terms
of themes, keywords and minimum times assigned to them.

The harmonised courses, which are now offered in most European countries, combine underpinning knowledge
and application experience, thereby providing close links with industrial practice. After the main education,
special courses for additional education are offered in many special areas, thus providing a specific education
still closer to the job function.

Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (Institute of Welding and Quality) (ISQ)

The Institute of Welding and Quality is a private and independent technological institution founded in 1965
offering its experience on the fields of inspection services, testing and calibrations, training, certifications,
engineering studies, auditing and consulting for quality, and research and development.

The Training Division of ISQ has a large experience in all areas of the training formative cycle using flexible
training methodologies based on new technologies.

ISQ has over 10 years of experience in preparing and managing European funded projects. For the training
domains ISQ has promoted or participated up to 100 projects in different programmes (Leonardo Socrates,
Commet, Innovation, Adapt, Youthstart, Now, Equal, among many others).

Svetskommissionen (Swedish Welding Commission) (SWC)

SWC is a non-profit organization for welding companies. Its primary objective is to promote the development of
welding and allied processes.
It was founded as a part of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in 1931.
The Commission is member of European Welding Federation, EWF, and International Institute of Welding, IIW.

The Commission has approximately 230 Swedish member companies representing different industrial sectors
as well as research institutes, universities and training organizations.

Our main areas of activity are standardization, research coordination, training, education and information.

The work of the commission is performed by a large number of experts (more than 300) from our member
companies.
They are organized in 30 permanent working groups.
The work of the working groups is administered by a secretariat with four full time technical secretaries.

One of the working groups is AG 60, Rail track welding, with members representing some 20 companies all
involved in track welding.

There are nine track welding companies, four rail way owners (one of them “Banverket”, the main rail way owner
in Sweden), two rail manufacturers, one university, one certification company, two suppliers of equipment and
consumables for track welding and last but not least the state owned training centre for track welders,
Banskolan.

Banskolan is doing the education, training and certification of track welders for all the Nordic countries

ISIM

Operating as a national research & development institute ISIM has following fields of activity: research and technological development in welding, allied processes and material testing; training, qualification and certification of welding and NDT personnel; certification of quality and environment management systems; inspection; testing of materials and welded structures; technological transfer. ISIM is the Romanian member of IIW. ISIM is an IIW/EWF Authorized Training Body for qualification of welding personnel, a Notified Body for the certification of NDT personnel acc. PED, as well as an EWF Authorized Body for Company Certification acc. ISO EN 3834. ISIM has a special expertise in development and implementation of guidelines for qualification/ certification of welding personnel as well as in development of welding processes.

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