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Sustainability Advisors: Discussing the potential for new green jobs among young people in Europe

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-2-MK01-KA205-047210
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 13,350 EUR

Sustainability Advisors: Discussing the potential for new green jobs among young people in Europe

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"Energy efficiency and sustainability in homes and other private &public entities is a topic that very few individuals and local authorities, SME's and other entities pay attention to. This topic is quite popular, but also highly needed across Europe and the profession of sustainability advisor is starting to emerge on the market, especially attracting the interest of young people. Green jobs are the future of societies, either as completely independent jobs dealing only with environmental issues, or as segments that are introduced in variety of professions. Nevertheless, in Macedonia green jobs are lacking on the market and obviously there is a high need for them. All of the units of local governments have a chapter in their strategic documents which clearly states the need for interventions in the field of environmental protection and green economy. In the last few months the applicant Eco Logic has worked on preparation and verification of the first of this kind VET programme in Macedonia - related to forming a completely new profession in the country: ""Sustainability Advisors"". The other organizations and countries involved in the project, besides the coordinator have interest to develop similar programmes in their own countries and in their field of work, but need further share of information, good practice and experience related to the process itself. There is also another organization from Macedonia, which also works with development of VET programmes in fields other than sustainability and environment. The idea is to exchange practices in order to improve the above mentioned ongoing VET programme on sustainability advisors developed in Macedonia, by combining and adding several components which are not included in the current programme. The topics that are targeted within the action are meant for the same target group, unemployed people, both male and female, including people from marginalized groups. The needs of these people and in general described as: retraining. And in relation to the availability of open job positions in the green sectors, the demand is high, in many various industries in a given community. Within this proposal the main target country in which transfer of knowledge, experience and share of good practices will be Macedonia, where the current demand in the green sector is several thousands workers (mainly in energy efficiency & audit). The partners from Poland and Austria as EU developed countries will be transferring knowledge and share practices with Macedonia. The target groups of the project will primarily be people that are working within the topic of interest, such as: representatives from municipalities (3 municipalities per country, 5 representatives per municipality), representatives from civil society sector that work in the sustainability field, and/or field of development of new VET programmes and curriculum for young people - 5 organizations each, 2 people per organization. These will be the multipliers Other people involved in the exchange of good practices are stakeholders and multipliers in adult education (i.e. energy training, environmental audit and eco standards, sustainability consultants and sustainable development education, environmental education and so on), but the project will as well address teachers for youth and young adults. With these people series of meetings will be held, face to face and also online in order to exchange experience and good practices. Objective(s): -Objective 1: Innovative improvement of educational programmes related to green jobs and environmental sectors, and making them in line with EU policies, through exchange of good practices between member states and candidate state - while also opening of key dialogue with political actors, CSO’s, business community and others. -Objective 2: Involving Local Authorities, CSO’s & SME's in processes for policy/programme improvement in relation to sustainable development, energy efficiency, and green jobs, locally but also at EU level. -Objective 3: Matching skills of unemployed people with labor market needs in line with EU’s best practices - based upon share of good practices and experiences. - Results related to Objective 1: VET programme ""Sustainability Advisors"" developed by Eco Logic is improved through a process of share of good practices among the consortium, and interest for development of similar VET programmes is expressed by the partners. - Local authorities, CSO's and SME's are familiar in depth about the potential of young people through prequalification and participation in VEin sustainable community development, and showed interest to make efforts in order to involve young people with green VET certificates in their daily work in near future. - Document for future creation of ""Sustainability Advisor"" programme with comments on matching skills of unemployed people with labour market needs is created and discussed among the target groups and key stakeholders."

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