Your Green Career is Our Future: Green Jobs Career Readiness for Young People

<< Background >>The project team applied for this project for these reasons:In accordance with the OECD findings, the career ambitions of young people are narrow, confused and distorted by social background. Since career readiness is a shared responsibility, there is an urgent need for standardized understanding of green jobs career readiness both for young people and YECs, VETs, TVETs, HEIs and other related stakeholders. In addition, climate change and environmental degradation have been recognized as global drivers of change. Moving towards a greener economy is creating opportunities for the introduction of new clean technologies, green investments and jobs.Needs addressed by the team:Standardization of knowledge on green skills response strategies for job career readiness of young people in partner institutions.Alignment of policies and tools for training young people in educational areas and training centers.Lack of awareness and motivations for job career readiness in the target group The existing courses of YECs, VETs, TVETs and HEIs ddon't consider the green economy’s generic skills and new methodologies connected to the job market in the green economy. The project aimed to equip students with the skills to become active citizens.<< Objectives >>With the implementation of the project we wanted to achieve the following objectives:- To support awareness raising of young people in transitioning towards green economy;- Improve necessary skills and competences of young people in order to support their own green jobs career;- Improve necessary skills and competences of YECs, VETs, TVETs and HEIs in order to support young people’s green jobs career readiness process;- To support main target groups in order to become a successful green economy requires the consistent needs of existing green jobs across the EU.- equip young people to become active, responsible and engaged citizens.<< Implementation >>The implemented activities are the following:All partner conducted a national survey to investigate the green job and career readiness of the target groups (young people and of YECs, VETs, TVETs and HEIs institutions).production of 5 national reportsproduction of a common international report: “green skills response strategies for job career readiness report”translation of the report in al partner languagesupload of the report on the digital environmentimplementation of sureìvey to analyze the digital skills gap of the target groups: 5 surveys in the 5 involved countriesAnalysis of the findings from the questionnaire for the digital skills gapdeveloping the structure of the digital training material, selecting the digital format and contentproduction of the video lessons and combined exercisestranslation of the digital training material in all partner languagestryout session of the digital training material: all partner conducted the pilot testing in their country and collected the feedbacksfinalization of the digital training materialupload of the the digital training material on the digital platformPreparation and Launch of Digital Platform and Awareness Increasing Activities via social media channels<< Results >>The concrete results outputs of the projects are:-Development of Green Skill Response Strategies for Job Career Readiness Report;-Producing Green Read Digital Training Materials and Try Out Sessions;The other results of the project are:Strengthened cooperation between partner countries through the development of a formal network based on structured communication and cooperation modelsIncreased awareness of public regional, national and European bodies on the urgency to facilitate the transition into green economy and adopting EU legislations.increased awareness among the target groups about green jobs and careers readiness importance; in particular YECs, VETs, TVETs and HEIs institutions, who are supposed to prepare young adults for the job world.improving skills of young adults towards green jobs and green careers