Green Career Guide for Young People Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green Career Guide for Young People

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

According to ILO Green Jobs Programme, green jobs are one of the main instruments of transforming economies, enterprises, workplaces, labour markets in to low-carbon, sustainable economy providing proper works.

Green jobs reduce environmental impact of enterprises, they contribute to reducing need for energy and raw materials, avoiding green house emissions, minimizng waste and pollution, restoring ecosystem services like clean water, flood protection and biodiversity.

Despite it has a big potential even in developing countries, it needs to be promoted by investments and programmes targeting at those who need them most: Young people, women and the poor.

Only In Turkey, according to article from yesilekonomi.com, 50000 new green jobs are expected with 50-70 billion € new investment in environmental field in following two years. According to specialists, these investments will create jobs for scale of people from high school graduate to economists and engineers.

In spite of such a big employment potential, there are certainly lack of resources and guides leading and informing young people on conditions, requirements, education, entrepreneurship oppurtunities, projected growth of local and European green jobs.

Being inspired from mentioned needs, our project aimed to promote Green Jobs among young people who are looking for proper occupation or specialization area.

Besides that, the project targeted to:
– inform young people about profiles of Green Jobs,
– help young people to find right Green Occupation matching to their own skills,
– help young people to use Career Planning Tools.

The intellectual outputs of the project were Green Career Guide Book and Web Site with Interactive Career Planning Tools.

Interactive Career Planning tools integrated in to web site provided personalized career sugesstion according to skills and interest of users. Thats the most innovative side of the project output making it different from existing web links and other resources.

Other difference making side of the project is that project outputs were designed to attract attention of young people using visiual elements instead of long and boring texts. This method will benefit from visual comprehension tendency of young people.

All these studies were implemented by a strong consortium established by 4 reputable Education Institutions, one Green Engineering Company and one Career Development Guidance Company, which complements each others

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 169694,04 Eur

Project Coordinator

T.C. Giresun Üniversitesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Sicó Formação, Sociedade de Ensino Profissional S.A. – Escola Tecnológica e Profissional de Sicó
• EKODENGE MUHENDISLIK MIMARLIK DANISMANLIK TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI
• APEC Egitim Danismanlik Ltd.
• University of Belgrade – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• COMUNE DI GENOVA