Over the past 10 years, the focus of the energy transition has largely been on developing and testing innovative energy technologies. A necessary condition but certainly not the only condition for this major, societal task to succeed. More and skilled (energy) technical personnel at all educational levels has increasingly become a bottleneck. It is good that this is attracting increasing attention from all sides and the Energie(k) Onderwijs project is happy to contribute to this.
The Energie(k) Onderwijs project is pulling out all the stops to prevent the energy transition from stalling due to staff shortages in the energy sector. We do this by:
- Visualising the qualitative and quantitative demand for (energy) technical staff from the market;
- Developing new and better educational programmes tailored to the energy transition;
- Develop retraining programmes for lateral entrants;
- Develop retraining programmes for current staff and teachers;
- Getting pupils, students and lateral entrants excited about a future in the energy transition;
- Promote national and regional cooperation between education, government and industry;
- Create hybrid apprenticeships at educational institutions and companies.
The challenges we face on both sides of the border are similar. That is why there will be intensive cooperation between these 18 project partners in the south of the Netherlands and Flanders in the coming years:
Avans Hogeschool, Zuyd Hogeschool, Hogeschool Zeeland, Thomas More Hogeschool, Hogeschool Vives, Curio, ROC Da Vinci College, Koning Willem 1 College, ROC ter AA, ROC Tilburg, Scalda, Summa College, Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen, Mtech+, Province of Antwerp, RTC Oost Vlaanderen, Flemish Energy and Climate Agency (VEKA) and Wij-Techniek (also on behalf of Techniek Nederland).
Because only through cross-border cooperation we will get a smarter and greener Europe!
Want more information about this project? Then send an e-mail to energiekonderwijs@avans.nl.
