The main objective of the Net0Manager project is to improve the skills and capabilities of EU managers in carbon management by innovating net0 approaches and strategies to be adopted within SMEs. The project aims to improve the carbon literacy skills of trainers and vocational training managers through new training approaches that ensure innovation and flexibility in vocational education and respond to students' needs through a more flexible and student-centred form of education, while also promoting inclusiveness, accessibility and equal opportunities, including through the use of micro-credentials. To achieve this objective, the project involves the development of: 1) a Net 0 management training toolkit offering a modular training course consisting of 6 modules; 2) an online training platform on carbon management to ensure open and flexible training, organised in such a way to facilitate flexible and personalised exploration and transfer into real-life practices; 3) Net0Manager Policy recommendations to improve regulation on the professional profile of carbon managers and the recognition of skills.
Promoting more flexible learning pathways and individual-centred approaches on the topics of carbon management and NET0 strategies for managers and trainers enables the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 13 of the 2030 Agenda and the EU's goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050. The transition to a low-carbon economy entails changes in sectors and occupations, and therefore in the skills and abilities of the workforce. Greater attention and effort must be put on adapting innovative training opportunities to these changes and to the new educational needs of adult learners. Workplace learning of green skills (including carbon management skills) is crucial, as the increasing rate of change in skills needed requires upskilling of human resources. Recognising the role that education and training policies must play in low-carbon strategies is essential to ensure that skills needs are met and that shortages do not hinder the transition.