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 University of Western Macedonia is cooperating with the HEDNO Human resources and Education departments to upskill the personnel of the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator on the new challenges that the electricity grid is facing, such as the renewable energy sources and energy storage units commissioning and connection to the network, groundings.
Resource available: VET centre of UOWM and the HEDNO (Hellenic Distribution Network Operator) network