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Skills for Climate Change Low Carbon Living & Working Project Urban Mines meeting, University of Huddersfield 26 Mar

Skills for Climate Change Low Carbon Living & Working Project Urban Mines meeting, University of Huddersfield 26 March 2010. ESF -Background. Part of England and Gibraltar Operational Programme 2007-2013 Dedicated innovative and transnational projects

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Skills for Climate Change Low Carbon Living & Working Project Urban Mines meeting, University of Huddersfield 26 Mar

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  1. Skills for Climate ChangeLow Carbon Living & WorkingProjectUrban Mines meeting, University of Huddersfield26 March 2010

  2. ESF -Background • Part of England and Gibraltar Operational Programme 2007-2013 • Dedicated innovative and transnational projects • Operates outside of usual co-financing arrangements • Menu of themes developed by ESF innovation, transnationality and mainstreaming sub-committee • Regional ESF committees have chosen themes for their regions • There are 2 priorities • Priority 1 –Extending employment opportunities • Priority 2 –Developing a skilled and adaptable workforce

  3. Aim & Themes of ITM The Innovation, Transnationality and Mainstreaming (ITM) strand aims to support small range of strategic, regional projects to develop & deliver new ways of extending employment opportunities and raising workforce skills. Themes • Active inclusion • Engaging with employers • ICT and the digital divide • Skills for climate change and sustainable development • Demographic change –Older workers and migration • Social enterprise

  4. Skills for climate change and sustainable development Aims to: test and develop new ways of addressing the skills needs required to respond to the challenges of climate change and sustainable development

  5. Skills for Climate Projects in the UK • Skills for Climate Change – Cornwall County Council • Skills for Climate Change – London Capital Colleges • GreenWays to Work – Impact Housing Association • Eco Advantage – Medway Council • Skills for Climate Change – Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry • Low Carbon Living and Working - Kirklees Council

  6. Climate Change • Projects focus on reduction of CO2 • emissions, and skills for low carbon economy and environmental • and sustainable technologies North East North West Yorkshire and the Humber South Yorkshire Merseyside East Midlands West Midlands East of England London South East South West Cornwall

  7. Key Purpose of Low Carbon Living & Working Project • Introduce a strategic programme of flexible training and education to be delivered by a network of organisations that meet local employer demands and helps the transition to a local low carbon economy (Skills from entry to postgraduate level)

  8. Target Groups • Areas of Kirklees with lowest academic achievement, high levels of unemployment, literacy, numeracy and language needs • Existing workforce & its trainers/mentors • Skills meet employer demands for higher level skills in environmental & sustainable technologies

  9. Indicative Actions • Level 1 – Entry Level : embedding skills into neighbourhood learning & unpaid work eg. through offenders and community orders • Level 2 – new skills and qualification packages to be developed with the College and the local University • Higher Level training – training for those to lead and champion change – Eco Champions, Low carbon Engineers, Assessors • Research

  10. Innovative Activity • Systemic change in local provision of low carbon training and education • Adult Education, College, University and local employers all part of new system • Flexibility - linking vocational and college/university based modules • Bring carbon – literacy to range of professions locally • Build on UK leading schemes like Recharge and WZ

  11. Partners (UK) • Kirklees Council – Regen & Economic Dev, Post 16 and Adult Learning, Environment Unit • University of Huddersfield • Kirklees College • Yorkshire Energy Services • WY Probation Service • Green Business Network • Kirklees Partnership • Job Centre Plus • Learning and Skills Council

  12. Transnational Partners • Kreis Unna, Germany - Vocational training and qualifications, employee coaching in building industry, energy efficiency and renewables • La Mancha (FEMPCLA), Spain - greening of SMEs, sustainable network of municipalities • BAN, Graz, Austria - Sustainable business development, training for long term unemployed and disadvantaged

  13. Proposed Transnational Working • Exchange of information and experience • Joint development • Exchange of trainees, trainers and/or staff • Joint research

  14. Finances • The total project budget is £1.2m (1,319,020 euro) • Transnational activity amounts to £63,280 (69,643 euro)

  15. Targets

  16. Policy & Mainstreaming Expectations • Local green skills delivered in more joined up and structured way, better designed to fill local gaps • Model low carbon education and training programme across local HE, FE, adult education, employers • Integrated Low Carbon Skills Modules - integrate into the curriculum across a range of mainstream disciplines and courses • Primary Research (Employers) - test DIUS Windsor Consultation assumptions and suggest ways in which important messages relating to a low carbon economy could be delivered in a more effective way to employers

  17. What has happened to Date! • Employer Research • Transnational visit to Brussels • Steering Group

  18. Any Questions ?

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