The green sector cover a broad range of occupations from floristry and green production into gardening and landscaping. The emerging effects of climate change, the restructuring of retail and a diversity of new approaches to design, development and delivery of green services are all challenging the involved companies – usually small and medium sizes enterprises – as well as training providers and certification organisations. The EGREEN project is established as a transnational partnership covering three different occupations, floristry, gardening and landscaping, with unexplored overlaps and representing seven different countries (AT, DE, EE, ES, FR, NL, NO). It is an effort to use learning outcome descriptions to describe new qualification definitions across occupations. The benefit of using learning outcomes as the common denominator will allow the climbing through five levels, from 2 to 6, in the EQF ladder. It will also open for transversal moves in the labour market to secure flexibility in learning and training pathways and opening for permeability between the core occupations. One of the objectives is to fully exploit the use of learning outcomes as recommended with EQF and ECVET to develop easily applied mechanisms for validation and recognition of prior learning (VNIL/RPL), regardless of being picked up through formal, non-formal or informal learning. To fill the gaps towards full certificates the developed training programmes with MOOC-type provisions will be deployed through the training providers in the partnership and the associated stakeholder organisations. The validation and recognition of prior learning is also a valuable asset for people in a changing labour market, for migrants and refugees and for the general upskilling of the workforce.he partnership consists of stakeholders from the labour market, training providers and an international umbrella organisation supported by technical expertise on competence analysis and IT solutions. With this composition of the partnership the project itself, as well as the outcomes, are well anchored in a professional environment. To fully support the development, the new qualification matrices will be delivered in multilingual versions for a parallel presentation using the Skillsbank system. This will allow comparable assessments of learning outcomes across language borders and open up for more mobile work and learning. Milestones are: •development of new learning outcome based qualification matrices across occupations•availability of the matrices in different languages•availability of relevant and adequate training programmes with VR/AR and MOOC support•options for VNIL/RPL towards certifications•issuing of green sector craft certificates in a common European format
Identify existing and emerging skills needs in the professions Strengthening exchange of knowledge and practice between education, institutions, and the labour market.Modernise VET by adapting provision to skills needs and integrate work-based learning. Building mutual trust, facilitating cross border certification and mobility.Increasing recognition of qualifications at European level within the sector.Improving skills intelligence by providing a clear strategy and instruments.
The green sector covers occupations in floristry, gardening and landscaping. Climate changes, restructuring of retail and new approaches to design, development and delivery of green services are all challenging the involved companies as well as training providers and certification organisations. The EGREEN+ project (January 2019 – July 2022) was established as a transnational partnership covering three different occupations: floristry, gardening and landscaping representing seven countries.
<< Background >> The green sector covers occupations in floristry, gardening and landscaping. Climate changes, restructuring of retail and new approaches to design, development and delivery of green services are all challenging the involved companies as well as training providers and certification organisations. The EGREEN+ project (January 2019 – July 2022) was established as a transnational partnership covering three different occupations: floristry, gardening and landscaping representing seven countries. << Objectives >> Identify existing and emerging skills needs in the professions Strengthening exchange of knowledge and practice between education, institutions, and the labour market.Modernise VET by adapting provision to skills needs and integrate work-based learning. Building mutual trust, facilitating cross border certification and mobility.Increasing recognition of qualifications at European level within the sector.Improving skills intelligence by providing a clear strategy and instruments. << Implementation >> The following activities were carried out in EGREEN+:Study of the available existing green sector qualifications and training curriculum.Development of the qualification matrices for EQF 2-6 in floristry, gardening and landscaping in English, Spanish, Dutch, Estonian, German, and NorwegianDevelopment of MOOCs and training programsGuidelines for the training programs for the target groups: Teachers, trainers, supervisors, and assessors-Manual for Validation and Recognition of Prior Learning << Results >> 15 multilingual qualification matrices has been developed for the sectors EQF level 2-6. The training programs were developed into two courses:“Sustainable resource use in the green sector” covering the topics: Biodiversity, Climate Awareness, Recycling and Composting, and The Problem of Polymers (plastic), and “Sustainable businesses in the green sector” covering four topics: Being an Informed Worker/Consumer, Supply Chain Management, Circular Economy, and Innovative Business Practices