Education has a hugely important role to play in helping tackling climate change and driving the transition to a green energy continent. Challenges in transition develop rapidly, with a high demand for digital and green.
Sustainable Energy Education (SEED) appreciates the need to distil relevant information that is useful for the Centres of Vocational Excellence about issues of skills supply and demand. Therefore, throughout the project’s lifecycle, the main focus will be on:
Investment in skills which are key to realising the clean energy transition.
Sharing a common interest in learning for sustainable energy education and encouraging a wide participation of various stakeholders (both partners and non-partners) to a series of events (i.e. workshops and conferences) so as to enhance legitimacy and shared ownership.
A case study on a training program for young entrepreneurs, aimed at the Circular Economy in the agri-food sector. The practice focuses on agriculture and four sub-sectors (fruit-tree farming, viticulture, medicinal and aromatic plants, and beekeeping). For each of these sub-categories, a training module was developed consisting of 31 hours online training. The participants gained knowledge on innovative growing methods, sustainable agriculture, product processing, making use of byproducts, collaboration with end users, making use of financing tools, EU policy and new business models. Additionally, the participants were trained in how to come up with their own ideas and to develop them into business plans and business models, and how to pitch them to investors. This was accompanied by on-site practical work.
Resource available: Agrocircularity capacity building programme