Within the ETF Network for Excellence, GRETA – Greening Responses to Excellence through Thematic Actions supports CoVEs in their greening processes.
GRETA promotes knowledge sharing, peer learning and collaboration of CoVEs and VET providers with a view to support their provision of green skills – and is implemented in collaboration with the Danish Technological Institute (DTI).
GRETAs whole institutional framework sets the methodological frame for greening of VET around five dimensions: 1) Strategies for going green 2) Providing green skills throughout the curriculum 3) Enabling teachers and trainers to promote green skills 4) Collaborating on green initiatives with outside stakeholders 5) Funding green initiatives.
In December 2022 VET providers from Armenia, Georgia, Latvia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine joined GRETA. For more information about GRETA, please visit GRETA’s Open Space page.
In the current, 2nd phase of GRETA, six online Thematic Webinars are organised from June – January 2023 aiming to present and share good practices to both the active participants of GRETA as well as other members of ENE.
The previous three thematic sessions focused on:
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Teachers training and continuing professional development (1 June 2022)
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Practices and funding possibilities for green international partnerships (30 June 2022)
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Regional skills ecosystems and their importance for the greening of VET (30 September 2022)
This fourth thematic session, taking place on 27 October, will take a ‘deep dive’ into green training programmes and examine more closely how VET can contribute to a successful green transition. In a global context, VET plays a key role in fostering the knowledge, skills and innovation that will enable workers as well as enterprises to shape and transform their practices towards greater sustainability.
On this background, the development of green training programmes (including the greening of existing training programmes) is essential, since they represent the educational activities and learning targets that determine what green skills are passed on to participating VET students. These skills may encompass technical skills relevant to specific technologies and processes key to the green transition. However, since the greening of jobs is cutting across occupations and sectors, green skills are also those needed to help adapt traditional occupations to the new green paradigm.
Key takeaways from the fourth thematic session in GRETA:
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Knowledge on green skills and VET’s strategic role for the green transition
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Examples of green training programme
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Awarenees of curricula and training programme building blocks
For more information on GRETA please contact Susanne M. Nielsen at ETF smn@etf.europa.eu.
All event materials are stored at this link: ETF | GRETA 27.10.2022 - Google Drive
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