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Sustainable Development in EU Policies
VET and Occupational Changes in the Green
Economy
Workshop on Skills for Green Jobs
TAIEX (European Commission) / Croatian
Employment Service (HZZ)
Zagreb, 3 November 2011
Arne Baumann
European Training Foundation
The European Training Foundation
• An EU Agency, in operation since 1994, to
assist in developing education and training
systems of partner countries of the EU
• ETF functions:
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Policy Analysis
Capacity Building
Dissemination and Networking
Support to the EU Commission
• ETF vision: make vocational education and
training not only a driver for lifelong learning
but also for sustainable development
European Neighbourhood and
Partnership Instrument
countries East:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Georgia, Republic of Moldova,
Ukraine and Russia
Potential candidate
countries:
Albania, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Kosovo
(UNSCR 1244/1999)
European Neighbourhood and
Partnership Instrument
countries South:
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan,
Lebanon, Morocco, occupied
Palestinian Territory, Syria,
Tunisia and Israel
Candidate countries:
Croatia, former
Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, Iceland,
Montenegro, Serbia,
Turkey
Central asian
countries:
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan
Humanity’s Ecological Footprint
Courtesy of the Global Footprint Network,
www.footprintnetwork.org
Global Footprint Network: Ecological Footprint Atlas 2010, p.18
Sustainable Development &
Green Economy in EU Policies
• EU Strategy for Sustainable Development
(since 2001)
• EU Education Council: Education for
Sustainable Development
• EU 2020 Strategy: Turning the EU into a
smart, inclusive and sustainable economy
• Integrated Guidelines for the Economic and
Employment Policies of the Member States
• Agenda for New Skills and Jobs Initiative
• Resource Efficient Europe Initiative
• Think Small First / Small Business Act for
Europe
EU 2020 Strategy
EU 2020 Headline
Target
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Population in
Employment
Investment in
2 Research &
Development
Climate and
3
Energy
4 Education
5 Poverty
Status Quo
(EU 27)
75%
2009: 64.6%
3% of GDP
2008: 1.9% of GDP
20% from renewable
resources
Share of renewable
energy 2008: 10.3%
20% less consumption
of primary energy
1990 - 2008: + 9.0%
greenhouse gas
emissions 20% below
1990 levels
1990 – 2008: -11.3%
share of school
leavers < 10%
Early school leavers
2008: 14.9%
share of tertiary
graduates > 40%
Tertiary graduates
2005 (EU-25): 36.9%
20 mill. people less
2008: 85 mill. people
in poverty
Integrated Guidelines
• Guideline 1: Invites Member States (MS) to
make tax systems more employment,
environment and growth friendly (i.e. shift tax
burdens away from labour and towards
environmentally harmful activities)
• Guideline 5: Invites MS to intensify attempts to
decouple economic growth from resource use
• Guideline 7: Invites MS to remove barriers to
labour market entry and support job creation in
the area of green employment
• Guideline 8: Invites MS to support anticipation
policies and increase the responsiveness of
education and training systems to labour market
needs, such as the green economy
Agenda for New Skills and Jobs
Flagship Initiative
• Strengthen the Flexicurity principles in order to ease
transitions between jobs, occupations and sectors
• Make public employment services transition agencies
and use active labour market policy effectively and
efficiently
• Improve access to Lifelong Learning (LLL) to allow
workers to move to expanding green(er) sectors
• Develop labour market intelligence and forwardlooking labour market tools to address skills changes
skills shortages
• Target vulnerable groups by up-skilling older workers
and re-skilling blue-collar workers for green-collar
jobs
• Use ETF funds more effectively in developing new
skills, including in the area of the green economy
Resource Efficient Europe
Flagship Initiative
Decoupling of economic growth from the use of
resources by, for example:
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Increasing recycling rates and reduce demand
for primary raw materials
Improving the design of products: less energy
use, more durable and easier to recycle
Modernising energy taxation (shift tax burden to
activities that are harmful to the environment)
Improving energy grids (Smart Grids) in order
to increase energy efficiency and build an
infrastructure for electric vehicles
Think Small First / Small
Business Act for Europe
Framework for supporting and promoting Small
and Medium sized Businesses (SMEs) in
Europe, in particular by:
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Providing information and expertise to allow
SMEs to adopt sustainable production and
business models
Access to Eco-Auditing & Management
Network of Environment and Energy
Efficiency Experts
Support for eco-innovative Start-Ups
What is the role of ETF in
partner countries?
The Three Dimensions of Sustainable
Development (and how they relate to ETF‘s work):
Environmental Dimension:
• educate on the environmental impact of human
activities
• promote responsability for the environment and
others
Economic Dimension:
• learn to produce and consume sustainably
• seize opportunities from green transformation
Social Dimension:
• provide equitable and inclusive access to education
• promote active citizenship & good governance
The Green Transformation
Mitigate Climate
Adapt to Climate
Change Change within Sectors Change
Growth of
New
Sectors
Green Growth
ENP East:
EU-27:
Candidate countries:
Potential candidate
countries:
ENP South:
Central asian
countries:
The Green
Transformation and the World of
Work
Green Jobs
I:
…jobs that
reduce,
protect,
minimise...
Green Jobs II:
… jobs in sectors that
reduce, protect,
minimise...
Competences, e.g.:
•Systems thinking
•Critical reflection
•Creativity
•Active Citizenship
Skills:
•Traditional Skills
•Additional Skills
•New Skills
Revised
curricula
Modernised
pedagogy
Access to
LLL
Forwardlooking skills
development
policies
Active schools
& social
partners
How does ETF address the Skills and
Competencies for the Green
Transformation?
• Required mix of skills and competences
will vary from country to country
• They range from electric car technology
to sustainable agriculture to
competences for active citizenship
ETF focuses on supporting development
processes & capacity building rather
than on delivering ready-made skills or
competences
ETF Activities
a. Promote competences for sustainable
development
b. Promote methods of identification, forecasting
and provision of skills for green jobs
c. Make VET schools agents for local
sustainable development
d. Integrate sustainable development issues into
entrepreneurial learning
e. Include sustainable development in the
analysis of partner countries’ human resource
development policies, applying adequate
indicators
Promote competences for
sustainable development
• Teacher Education
• Participatory teaching
• Student-centred pedagogical
methods
• Curriculum Reform
• Problem solving abilities
• Awareness of environmental issues
& interconnectedness
• Fostering sustainable attitudes
Methods of identification, forecasting
and provision of skills for green jobs
• Overview of bottom-up and
top-down approaches in EU
member states
(ILO/Cedefop)
• Qualitative forecasting
methods (sectoral /
regional)
• Potential of active labour
market interventions
(flexicurity)
Make VET schools agents for
local sustainable development
• Whole-School approach
to Learning for
Sustainable Development
Integrate sustainable development
issues into entrepreneurial learning
• Sustainable enterprise
development
• Management systems for
sustainable production
• Sectoral support institutions
Analysis of partner countries’
education policies
through adequate indicators
• Qualitative indicators
• For self-assessment
• Providing a
communication
platform for
stakeholders
Thank you very much.
In case of questions & comments, please contact
me:
Dr. Arne Baumann
European Training Foundation
Villa Gualino
Viale Settimio Severo, 65
I - 10133 Torino - Italy
T: +39 011 630 2349
F: +39 011 630 2200
E: [email protected]