LWS

Project description

Climate and environmental protection goals of both Germany and the EU need to be based upon measurements especially in the labor market and so in vocational education. This need was mentioned several times for example in Cedefop-papers as well as in publications of the GiZ (German "Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit"). For example it was in the Cedefop-study "skills for green jobs", 2010 and the GiZ-publication "Berufsbildung für die grüne Wirtschaft", 2013. Both publications name the necessaty of green content in vocational education. The highest possibility to get "environmental education" into vocational education effectively and fast is seen in developing further education for existing vocations. Exactly this is the aproach of the project, in identifying environmental aspects of the existing job world and offering solutions using vocational education.

The workshops are not only usable in initial training but also in further education and they are explicitly designed in a way to be used also in other trainings and vocations. It is intended that there will araise a lot of other learning and teaching workshops as a follow up of the project, which will provide a substantial contribution to achieve the climate goals of the EU and the international treaties.

The development of the teaching and learning workshops for sustainable environmental protection will pick up the topic environmental protection and the climate goals of the EU and their member states and provide a substatial contribution to it. The holistic concept and its parts, especially the 5 vocation-specific teaching and learning workshops and the qualification concept for the pedagogical staff enable directly implementable actions to transfer green, sustainable skills in the framework of vocational further education and initial trainings. This is a demand of the EU and its memeber states for a long time. The initiation of such teaching and learning workshops makes environmentally and climate aware acting a cross-sectorial task in vocational education and so an elematary part of vocational acting in the future.

Objectives

The main objective of the project is to develop programmes of practical learning workshops on environmental sustainability for the representatives of the following industries:

• health care

• construction

• HoReCa

• electronics and mechatronics

• trade

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