The course for “Developing the ecological skills of trainers in the construction sector” is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Greek. It is an open training web platform for the training of the trainers and the evaluation of knowledge, endorsed by the European accreditation system.
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.
Through this leaflet about the BuS Trainers project, for anyone who is interested to know more in a simple, concise and clear way, why it is important for the construction industry to rely on the training of trainers in greenskills, which eventually will lead them to acquire specialized knowledge in energy efficient (EE) and management of renewal energy system (RES).
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.
One of the five priority objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the axis about “climate change and energy”, decisively marks a turn in the European Union towards a “green” economy.
In fact, since the original commitments assumed by the members (20% of reduction of greenhouse effect, in relation with the 1990 levels, 20% of renewal energy and an increase on 20% of energy efficient), the goal have changed for 2030 (at least 40% of reduction in greenhouse effect, in relation with 1990 levels, at least 27% of renewal energy and 27% of improvement in energy efficient) This “waybill” guide us to a low-carbon competitive economy for 2050, which considerates more the weather and consumes less energy (80% of reduction of greenhouse effect, in relation with 1990 levels, going to reach a 60% by 2024).