Green Skills at Vocational Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Green Skills at Vocational Education

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Energy and resources; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

Climate change is the main environmental policy priority across Member States and Turkey. It is often related to other environmental pressures and policy areas, for example water scarcity and energy. Public policies and enterprise strategies in many areas follow calls for innovative, clean and greener economies. Availability of skills for green jobs plays a crucial role in triggering change and facilitating just and timely transitions. Although all Member States and Turkey recognise, in general policy statements, the skills dimension of climate change and low-carbon policies, there are few overarching, strategic skills responses for the environment. At European level our project will contribute to the Europe 2020 strategy (European Commission, 2010) in which sustainable growth means building a resource-efficient and competitive economy, reinforcing the competitive advantages of businesses, particularly in manufacturing and SMEs, and through assisting consumers to value resource-efficiency.

Our project aims to analyse and make some positive changes for greener economics by contributing the Vocational Education by identifiyng the needs of partner countries on green skills.

The target goups of the project are:
1) Policiy makers in VET strategies: The analysis and reccomendations paper are for to nifluence the policiy makers in VET policies Our project will raise their awareness on green skills.
2) VET trainers: The project will develop some reccomendations about training content and curriculum and will find inconsistency between the existing curriculm and green skills and will develop a strategy on training VET trainers on green skills.
3) Students:The project will develop some reccomendations about training content and curriculum and increase the quality of the training content for students in VET.

The expected results of the project are:

Expected Results:
– contribution to the protection of environment in long term in partner countries.
– contribution to the expansion of green skill jobs.
– increase in the the quality of green skills vocational education and training in partner countries.
– increase of vthe awareness of policiy makers, VET trainers VET students, employers and all communities in partner countries on green skills
– contribution to European Union’s green skills strategy
– improvement of the employment opportunities for the workers graduating from partner countries’ VET organizations by increasing the awareness of VET systems regarding green skills education.
– share of knowledge about and experiences of the green skills occupation in vocational training.
– A cross-border cooperation among partners in the field of education and employment from different EU countries from different nature (VET, private sector, NGO’s ) but with common goals related to the potential increase in vocational education.
– The Enhancement of the commitment of local and regional public authorities in the high quality VET offer, labour inclusion by work-based training and the identification of key skills.
– The involvement of participants in this project will improve their capacities in the area of strategic development, organizational management, project management, international cooperation in EU level, leadership, quality of learning provision, equity and inclusion and qualitative and targeted activities for disabled people.
– increase in the human resources capacity of partner institutions.

We are 5 partners from 5 countries(Turkey, Italy, Spain; UK, Romania)
The main outputs of the project are:
-Qualitative analyse report for the perception of green skills by VET trainers, VET policy makers and employers.
-A quantitative analyse report for the perception of green skills by VET trainers, VET students, and employers. questionnaire with 250 student 50 VET trainers and 50 employers
-Comparative report about the curriculums for construction workers on green skills.
-Comparative report about the curriculums for electricians on green skills.
-Recommendations for policy makers about the inadequacies of Vocational education for electricians from the perspective of green skills concept.
-Recommendations for policy makers about the inadequacies of Vocational education for construction workers from the perspective of green skills concept.

We could start late our project because we were in reserve list and we could sign the agreement with National Agency late but we could finish the project on time. There were some budget cuts by National agency according to application form at the agreement by our consent but we could finish on time. The cooperation between partners was effective. We finished all the intellectual outputs as we promised. We only couldn’t organize multiplier event in UK. Dissemination activities were as we promised. We developed a quality assurance plan and make evaluations regularly.

You can find all project outputs at http://www.greenskills.ceipes.org/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 196495 Eur

Project Coordinator

ADANA CALISMA VE IS KURUMU IL MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL MUEBLEY LA MADERA DE LA REGION DE MURCIA
• INSTITUTUL POSTLICEAL PHOENIX ASOCIATIE
• CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE
• LANDWARD RESEARCH LTD