What is the New Skills for Green Jobs project?

1. What is the New Skills for Green Jobs project? Marchmont Observatory & Partners College of Social Sciences & International Studies University of Exeter

2. New Skills for Green Jobs:Project context The development of the green economy will affect the employment structure of Member States by creating new jobs, “greening” existing jobs and destroying some others … [It represents] a unique opportunity to increase employment and integration for women into more male-dominated scientific disciplines and professions.

3. New Skills for Green Jobs:Project rationale • Transitions to greener economies are likely to hit lower-skilled, rather than high-skilled workers • Support measures could magnify skills and gender inequalities and undermine employment and social cohesion • Policy development for green jobs and industry sectors must ensure that jobs and skills training are gender inclusive

4. Benefits from integrating gender into Green Jobs • tracking the gendered employment processes that occur with the transition to greener economic activities. • avoiding reinforcing old and creating new inequalities in an uneven transition process. • provide the means to leverage public funding to promote green jobs and reduce gender inequalities.

5. Three-stage approach • Building the knowledge base and the conceptual framework for analysis; • The mutual learning process (including identification of good practice); and • Dissemination reports and follow up.

6. Project structure • Task 1 – Conceptual reference framework (Nov 2011) • Task 2.1 – Context analysis (Feb 2012) • Task 2.2 – Stakeholder workshop (Feb 2012) • Task 2.3 – Country report (Mar 2012) • Task 3 – International peer review workshops (Apr – Jul 2012) • Task 4 – Dissemination (summer-autumn 2012): conference, Website, handbook of good practice, final report

7. Project outcomes • Tools for the early identification of skills needs for the greening of the economy • Initiatives improving training practices in EU and partner countries, encouraging the active participation of women. Partners’ mutual learning from good training practice will draw on public and private sector initiatives, with national and local actors, large companies and SMEs.

8. Project partners • Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Assessorato Lavoro e Formazione, Regione Lazio (Italy) • Agenţia Naţională Pentru Ocuparea Forţei de Muncă - ANOFM (Romania) • Agenzia Liguria Lavoro (Italy) • Marchmont Observatory, University of Exeter (UK) • Fundación Andaluza Fondo de Formación y Empleo - FAFFE (Spain) • Sociedad) de Desarrollo Medioambiental de Aragón - SODEMASA (Spain)

9. Key project stakeholders • National, regional and local representatives involved in training practices, employment services and universities • Central and local agencies with a remit for energy and the environment • Social partners including trade unions, professional and environmental organisations • Private companies in all industry sectors affected by the green transition • Equal opportunities and civil society bodies.

10. How can you get involved? • Today: give us your views on effectiveness and gender inclusiveness of current ‘green’ training policies and skills delivery • Tomorrow: help us to identify and validate good practices to be shared among international partners – what are you involved with? • Spring/summer 2012: international visits? • Rome, 19-20 April - Aragon, 28-29 June • Andalucia, 23-24 May - Devon, UK, 9-10 July

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14. Thank you – enjoy the day! Jo Pye – jpye@ex.ac.uk Marchmont Observatory University of Exeter