The implementation of the project was aimed at the development of uniform educational materials and curricula for hydrogen technologies at the level of secondary education, which would be transferable across European countries. The European Union has defined high requirements for the hydrogen workers in its strategic documents for the next years. The Member States are responding to this progressively. The differences in development between the Member States are large, but at the same time there is a presumption of uniform qualification requirements for workers in this sector. It was necessary to react in the field of education to create support for education in this area. This also involved the training of teachers, who will be able to pass on the knowledge and skills they have acquired. While developing the educational materials, we wanted to get an overview of the national situation and find a consensus across the partner countries for the topics covering the most important areas of hydrogen technology use and should be included in the developed materials.
In the vocational education in our secondary school we are monitoring the actual trends in the field of innovations on the labour market. In intensive cooperation with companies for which we are providers of future workers and in accordance with European and national strategic documents concerning hydrogen technologies, we wanted to respond to the needs of the labour market and start preparing specialists for this field. After analysing the situation of education in the field of hydrogen technologies at national and European level, we wanted together with other partners to respond to the need for availability of educational materials for secondary vocational schools and to start to participate in the preparation of curricula. In the context of global strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, the use of hydrogen technologies is one of the ways to achieve these goals. Technological progress in this area is very fast. We wanted to actively respond to this and start preparing our students for the potential new job market that will be part of a green energy concept.