GREENEUROHUB Erasmus Project

Project Title

GREENEUROHUB

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 addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

The intensive consumption of fossil fuels has led to the growing scarcity of directly exploitable resources, while their combustion has a very big impact on the environment. Among all economic sectors, construction has the most energy intensive consumption (42.5% of final energy). It generates 23% of greenhouse effect gazes. Through the “Energy Efficiency Directive” the EU is aiming for a 20% cut in Europe’s annual primary energy consumption by 2020. The Commission has proposed several measures to increase efficiency at all stages of the energy chain: generation, transformation, distribution and final consumption. The measures focus on building sectors, where the potential for savings is greatest. The market open to smaller business represents 50 billion euros and a huge potential for the creation of local jobs which cannot be delocalized. In France, Portugal, Estonia,Italy countries’ policies strive to address the issue of a drastic improvement of the energy efficiency of the build. A wide range of stakeholders are involved in the building process from the property owner down to the workers, therefore a new awareness over the issue is to be gained by all. As a consequence, the construction sector is now requiring new competencies to address the issue in the retrofitting of existing build and new construction. Construction jobs have now entered into a greening process. All the trades are strongly impacted and are to be confronted to organisational and structural modifications and therefore a new way of thinking and new professional behaviours regarding a systemic approach of the build are to be developped.The new challenge construction trade has to tackle has a strong impact on training organisations which have to adapt and redefine their offer which should be in keeping with the new competencies required by the trade , identify green competencies and competencies which have to be greened. Curricula are being adapted , training organisations are in want of new tools to address the issue.

These new challenges have an important impact on the training organizations that have to adapt and redefine their training offer in order to be in line with the demands of the labor market.

The GEEE project aims to support the building sector towards the energy transition, through vocational training, in particular through innovative training methods.

The 8 partners of the project are all from the building sector: training centers, decision makers, business managers and universities. This diversity of origin has helped to identify the needs and the means to be developed to achieve the results and has ensured the development of tools in line with the labor market.
Also, the geographical diversity of the partners has fostered the creation of a transversal offer useful in all European countries well beyond the partnership.
All the partners participated in all the activities of the project and contributed to the whole work program according to the skills and experiences of each one.

During the three years of project development, partners were able to:
Mapping Energy Policies in the Building Industry
Mapping the greening of skills in competences framework
Create a European training offer in E-learning transversal to all trades
Organize events with companies, training centers, decision-makers, experts and trainees.

The project has had a significant impact on the target groups from the beginning of the project to the end and will continue to have a strong impact through a post-project strategy plan.
This plan foresees, on the one hand, the integration of GEEE e-learning tools into the partners’ service offer, and, on the other end, the signature of an agreement to make the tools available to project partners and external stakeholders.
As foreseen in the application form, the project tools helped to deepen the knowledge and skills of the target groups in the field of energy efficiency in the building industry: energy policies, training offer and technical skills. But the project had unanticipated impacts, such as multicultural openness, improving foreign language skills and building digital skills.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 428915,54 Eur

Project Coordinator

GIP-FCIP de l’académie de Caen & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Chambre Artisanale des Petites Entreprises du Bâtiment du Calvados
• JÄRVAMAA KUTSEHARIDUSKESKUS
• Centro de Formação Profissional da Indústria da Construção Civil e Obras Públicas do Norte
• CONSORZIO FORMEDIL EMILIA ROMAGNA
• TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL
• Associazione N.E.T. Networking Education & Training
• ECS