The ENTIRE project’s general objective is to equip VET learners with the right green skills and thus enable them to be competent and able to contribute to energy efficiency and environmental preservation in the long term. In order to achieve its main goal, the ENTIRE partnership designed tools that offer continuous support to VET providers in their role of adapting their training to changing green skills needs and thus contribute to the goals of the European Green Deal. The two main project outputs, the Methodological guidance document and the Training programme for electrical engineering VET teachers, to a large extent support the modernisation of VET training content. To be able to successfully integrate green skills in the electrician vocation and be able to ensure regular skilling and up-skilling, the partnership elaborated a tailor-made methodological guidance document for vocational schools and companies involved in curricula design. Furthermore, the team also supports the professional development of electrical engineering VET teachers in green skills development.
In order to realise the green economy, VET systems are expected to develop a workforce that has the ability and skills needed to support the running of this economic system. The incorporation of green skills into VET programmes is needed in order to develop employees with sustainability habits off and on the job. In order to offer a solution to the identified need for curriculum updates by integrating contemporary and future green skills for VET learners, the ENTIRE project developed a green skills anticipation and incorporation procedure, the primary project result, which is implemented by VET providers at grass root level. With the second project result, a Training Programme for electrical engineering VET teachers, the ENTIRE partnership addresses the growing need to ensure vocational teachers have the necessary competencies to fulfill the requirement of the green transition and facilitate the process of raising awareness about climate change of VET learners and ultimately prepare them for the opportunities of the green economy.