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About RetroVET

This project is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

Consortium

assist GmbH, Germany
CWEP, Poland
Cuiablue OÜ, Estonia
Lovila, Cyprus
LABC, Italy
MEUS, Spain
Mindshift, Portugal

Introduction

Throughout the European Green Deal, education is a central component to achieving
the EU’s climate targets, in the ambition to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 (Green
Comp, 2020). The need to transition towards more environmentally sustainable modes
of production and consumption has become imperative, for developed as well as for
developing countries (UNESCO, 2017). Sustainable Development Goal 9 includes the
target of upgrading infrastructure and retrofitting industries to make them
sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and
environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes by 2030. Sustainable
Development Goal 12 includes the target of achieving the sustainable management
and efficient use of natural resources by 2030. The transition to a low- carbon, resource-
efficient economy requires systemic changes that will result not only in new products
and services but also in changes in production processes and business models
(UNESCO, 2017). This greening of the economy will inevitably change the skills required
and the tasks involved in many of the existing occupations (European Commission,
2020). Moving towards a low carbon economy will create more than 1 million jobs by
2030, and what is more, industrial transitions will require reskilling and upskilling more
than 120 million Europeans in the next five years (European Commission, 2020).

The RetroVET project aims to:

1. Contribute to develop and promote a green culture among VET establishments
2. Close the green skills gap between VET centres that have successfully adopted
green skills implementation practices, by facilitating the integration of amongst
VET centres which have not embraced ICT practices
3. Develop a collaborative European Green Skills VET peer mentoring and
performance improvement tool/framework

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect
those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA
can be held responsible for them.
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