CUOA Business School representatives visited LNEG to know Bus.Trainers project

CUOA Business School representatives, one of the most important management schools in Italy, visited Portugal on last October 3rd, with a small group of 10 company representatives with the main objective of learn and exchange with significant entities (institutions, associations etc.) how the themes of sustainability and circular economy are promoted and put into practices.

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Article accepted in “10th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies – EDULEARN18”

The article “Towards a trainer profile on green skills for Portugal: Bus.Trainers Project” was accepted at the EDULEARN18 conference, held on 2-4 July 2018 in Palma de Mallorca, on the Portuguese results based on the “Report on Skills gaps in Portugal”. It was coordinated by the National Energy and Geology Laboratory (LNEG) and by the participation of the Portuguese partner Centre for the Professional Training of the Southern Civil Construction and Public Works Industry (CENFIC), as well as the project coordinator, Fundación Laboral de la Construcción.

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How to promote adult learning in the workplace

The globalization, automation, and digitalization have tested the knowledge of the employees, whose have required to upskill and re-skill for increase their competitiveness inside the labor market.

This fact has affected in a high way to the adults, who are working or have a stable employment, as they need to refresh their own skills and develop others to face the new challenges of the construction sector and compete with other professionals on an equal footing.

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Bus.Trainers, in the European Week of Sustainable Energy, EUSEW 2018

Our informative seminar on «The importance of the training of trainers in environmental competences for the construction sector», organized by the Confederación Nacional de la Construcción (CNC), with the collaboration of the la Fundación Laboral de la Construcción, on Thursday 10 May, was an event selected by the European Commission to stand out among the actions of the European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW).

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Bus.Trainers arouses interest among the partners of the Interreg Europe Enerselves project

In an interregional event of the Enerselves project, belonging to the Interreg Europe program, held on last May 17, Bus.Trainers was a focus of attention.

Our partner Malta Intelligent Energy Management Agency (MIEMA), which also participates in Enerselves, referred to the European initiative Bus.Trainers, belonging to the Erasmus + program, given the interest in the training of trainers in the construction sector in the specialties of efficiency energy and renewable energies for the development and competitivity of the industry in Europe.

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More than 50% of the objective of increasing energy efficiency and renewable energies will come from building

Trainer training, professional qualifications, user awareness and compliance with quality standards are key aspects for the 2020 horizon, according to experts who participated in the informative seminar on «The importance of training of trainers in ‘green’ skills for the construction sector», organized by Confederación Nacional de la Construcción (CNC), with the collaboration of Fundación Laboral de la Construcción, on Thursday May 10th, attended by about twenty representatives of institutions and companies from the construction industry and the field of training.

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Waiting for the results of the public consultation of the European Commission to review the rules applicable to construction products

The Departments Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs of the European Commission, created the 22th of January a public consultation on EU rules for products used in the construction of buildings and infrastructure works.

The public consultation, which ended on April 16, was done in the framework of Regulation (EU) n ° 305/2011 which provide harmonized conditions for the commercialization of construction products, set standards for the evaluation of the performance of construction products and they communicated in technical language, common to the all European community.

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The “Eco-trainer” qualification for the construction industry will be launched on the second half of 2019

European project Bus.Trainers’s consortium designed a professional qualification, specialized in energy efficient and renewal energy system which will be recognized by the EU.

Eleven partners from Spain, Greece, Italy, Malta and Portugal just finished “Eco-trainer”, the qualification in Vocational Training (VET) for trainers in the construction sector, it was developed under the European project framework called Bus.Trainers. It is a specialized training in specific competences in energy efficient (EE) and renewal energy system (RES), based on innovate tools for trainers who seek raising, from trainers’ knowledge, the competitiveness in the industry and its transmission to the workers and future employees of the sector.

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