The world of work is changing significantly with the green and digital transition.
The green future needs to start with upgrading the peoples’ skills and understanding of what needs to be changed to achieve sustainable development. This means also big changes in education, training, and lifelong learning, as environmental awareness will need to be mainstreamed in all curricula. The transition to a more sustainable economy offers much potential for job creation whereas teaching and learning are fundamental for making the green transition real in wide range of professions.
We need to educate professionals who have competences to transform from prevalent practices to new, sustainable way of doing. Competences are not simply doing things differently but also reflecting personal values and empowering actors for sustainable future.
As a framework for discussions and Green Skills Toolkit we have used GreenComp: the European sustainability competence framework.
Sustainability in VET organisations
Sustainability in Vocational Education project identified good practices within our Vocational institutes on areas of environmental concern, to examine how the institutes operate and identify ways in which environmental best practice can be incorporated into the normal day to day operation of the Institutes.
- Energy, Water, Litter & Waste
- Biodiversity & Travel
- Sustainability in the Curriculum
- Sustainability in a holistic approach
Competences in Sustainability, Restaurant & Catering at Savo Vocational College
Savo Consortium for Education, creator of a sustainable future from Savon ammattiopisto Sakky
Sustainability in VET systems
Skills development and climate change action plans – Enhancing TVET’s contribution
The paper summarizes key information that helps assess the ongoing and potential contribution of TVET to the realization of climate change action plans
Other papers
Skills development and climate change action plans – Enhancing TVET’s contribution
The paper summarizes key information that helps assess the ongoing and potential contribution of TVET to the realization of climate change action plans
Recommendations for policy makers about the inadequacies of vocational education for construction workers from the perspective of green skills concept
A report looks at the drive to build a greener workforce across the UK economy
VASKI – a national level project to promote sustainability in VET in Finland
Enabling action-oriented and transformative learning for sustainability in vocational teacher education