The development of green skills has become the key to maintaining added value in the sustainable economy that the EU is striving to create. The importance that green skills are gaining in these unpredictable times, where the demands for more sustainable functioning and operation are more pressing and changing, also carries over into the world of education.
Green skills and the sustainable economy require the development of a set of high value and high quality skills in the VET and SME sector. An agile mindset and readiness to change are immensely important, more than ever, to foster and enable the shift towards a sustainable and green economy.
Raising awareness among decision-makers in both the education and economic sectors of the challenges posed by the environment and climate change is key to changing behaviours and guiding change towards the greening of existing curricula, which will lead to the development of new green skills.
The project and the Green Collider partnership will work on these issues from 2022 to 2024.
The main objectives are:
