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.
Linking current concerns, recording good practices, and promoting knowledge exchange among the participating regions in order to develop strategic priorities tailored to their regional needs.
The good practice involves leveraging EU financial instruments to promote and support green employment for engineering and technical employees within the Hydrogen Value Chain. In that direction, the case study provides an overview of a new Hydrogen Skills Strategy aimed to facilitate the upskilling and reskilling of students and the technical local workforce and reorienting the local workforce to greener practices and professions.
Resource available: EU financial instruments and funds to support cohesion policies and to enable just transition in EU regions