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 practice is all about hands-on learning in the workplace, specifically in recruiting and eventual hiring of new people after their “test period” at the company Solar Finland. The participants develop new skills, such as design skills, teamwork, technical and practical skills since the hands-on education approach and the mentoring with inside “educators”.
About the company: Solar Finland is a solar energy company based in Salo Finland. Its scope of business includes manufacturing of solar panels, sales and installation of solar energy systems, investments on solar energy production companies and sales of automatic PV-module production lines.
Resource available: Solarleap PV training for VET teachers