Green Skills Programme

The Green Skills Programme is divided into activities:

• Between 2023 and 2024, curricula for formal and continuing education will be developed. To this end, sectoral consortia will be set up involving higher education institutions, vocational training institutions, and professional associations. The activities of the consortia include identifying and mapping the necessary green skills, and reviewing and complementing existing curricula. New study modules and subjects are created, which are also applicable for carrying out in-service training. In addition, the preparation of study materials supporting the studies and piloting of new modules and subjects will take place as in-service training.
• In parallel, professional standards are being updated and green skills are being integrated into professional standards and skills profiles in cooperation with the Estonian Qualifications Authority.
• Employees of enterprises are offered opportunities to improve their knowledge and skills through open training and micro-credentials. For this purpose, a separate state-commissioned education is prepared and, if necessary, training procurements are also carried out. Vocational and higher education teachers and adult educators are also trained to teach green skills.
• At least 2,830 people are planned to be trained throughout the programme through in-service training (including micro-credential training) to support the green transition of enterprises in the above areas, with at least 330 pedagogical staff/teachers.

The Green Skills Programme is coordinated by the Education and Youth Board and financed from the funds of the investment ‘Green skills to support the green transition of enterprises’ of the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience Facility reform ‘Green transition of enterprises’.

The coordinators (lead partners) of the consortia have been selected from among the higher education institutions, taking into account the current development activities and the number of curricula and learners in these curricula groups:

1) Transport services – Tallinn University of Technology (contacts: Helen Sooväli-Sepping, advisor for sustainable development and the green transition [email protected] and Terje Haidak, coordinator of external funding for the field of study [email protected]; consortium leader: Katre Koit, EMERA Director of Studies [email protected]);

2)   Building and civil engineering – Tallinn University of Technology (contacts: Helen Sooväli-Sepping, advisor for sustainable development and the green transition [email protected] and Terje Haidak, coordinator of external funding for the field of study [email protected], leader of the consortium: Simo Ilomets, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Buildings and Facilities Programme Manager, Senior Lecturer [email protected]);

3.   Chemical engineering and processes; Materials (glass, paper, plastic and wood); Textiles (clothes, footwear and leather) –Tallinn University of Technology (contacts: Helen Sooväli-Sepping, advisor for sustainable development and the green transition [email protected] and Terje Haidak, coordinator of external funding for the field of study [email protected], consortium leader: Tiia Plamus, Senior Lecturer, Programme Manager, Head of Laboratory [email protected]);

4. Electricity and Energy – Tallinn University of Technology (contacts: Helen Sooväli-Sepping, advisor for sustainable development and the green transition [email protected] and Terje Haidak, coordinator of external funding for the field of study [email protected], consortium leader: Ivo Palu, Director of the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering and Mechatronics, Professor [email protected]);

5.    Food processing – Tallinn University of Technology (contacts: Helen Sooväli-Sepping, advisor for sustainable development and the green transition [email protected] and Terje Haidak, coordinator of external funding for the field of study [email protected], leader of the consortium: Katrin Laos, Associate Professor, Programme Manager at [email protected]);

6.   Motor vehicles, shipping and aviation equipment – Tallinn University of Applied Sciences (contacts: consortium leader Tarmo Sildeberg, Vice Rector for Development [email protected]);

7.   Crop and livestock production; Horticulture; Fisheries – Estonian University of Life Sciences (contacts: Aret Vooremäe, Director of the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences [email protected], consortium leader: Katrin Jõgar, Director of Studies, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Chair of Plant Health, Associate Professor [email protected]);

8.   Forestry – Estonian University of Life Sciences (contact person and consortium leader Marek Metslaid, director of the Institute of Forestry and Engineering [email protected]);

9.   Environmental sciences; Community sanitation; green transition as horizontal – University of Tartu (contact person: Kristiina Vain, RAKE project manager-analyst [email protected])