EDDIE is a four-year (starting January 2020) Erasmus+ European Union funded collaborative project creating a Sector Skill Alliance (SSA) to develop a long-driven Blueprint for the digitalization the European Energy sector. The Consortia is coordinated by COMILLAS and brings together 16 partners from 10 EU Countries.
The challenge of the project is to develop a long-driven Blueprint for the digitalization of the European Energy sector to enable the matching between the current and future demand of skills necessary for the digitalization of the Energy sector and the supply of improved Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems and beyond.
This report aims to provide insights on the current challenges in the energy sector, and the state of the art in education and training. The changes that are happening in the energy sector are being reviewed and the key drivers that lead to these changes are addressed. The economic, social, technical and regulatory challenges are identified for the energy system and its subsectors. A survey was conducted amongst important industrial stakeholders throughout Europe in order to identify challenges, tools, technologies, added value and skills needs. Moreover, a comprehensive review of Erasmus+ Blueprint projects, European educational projects/initiatives on energy and scientific literature is performed in order to obtain an overview of the current state of the art in education and training.
Resource available: Current challenges in the energy sector and state of the art in education/training