Addressing the skills challenge

• Make workforce training in renewable energies an industrial priority.
• Shape these policies through a comprehensive assessment of the current and foreseeable skill needs.
• Set-up the new Net-Zero Europe Platform quickly.
• Establish an inclusive dialogue with social partners and industrial partnerships 

Best Practice No.1: Wind Power Energy's RenewAcad – Academy of Counseling and Vocational Training for Renewable Energy Sources

• Organise nation-wide awareness-raising campaigns to attract more workers.
• Promote perspectives for youth and those not in employment, education or training (NEETs) in the field of technical education and vocational training, emphasising the equal value to academic paths.
• Foster early exposure to the diversity of technical careers across different renewable energies.
• Keep career advisors, teachers and trainers across educational levels updated with market, technological and job opportunities trends.
• Promote inclusivity.

Best Practice No.2:  Green Tech Skillnet, an Irish training provider who works with employers to understand urgent skills needs in renewable electricity.

• Promote a multi-technology approach in vocational training, where appropriate.
• Facilitate movement between higher education, and vocational education and training centres.
•  Support the recognition of informal acquired skills and experience from related professions.
• Enable the cross-border mobility of workers and students.

Best Practice No.3: The Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centres’ (EUREC) Master Programmes for various renewable technologies

• Promote a modular approach to vocational training where appropriate, to bridge the skills gap. 
• .Prioritise the European Net-Zero Academies with a focus on areas where current and foreseen skills shortages are critical.
• Incentivise apprenticeships in the renewable energy industry.
• Invest more in infrastructure and trainers for vocational and lifelong learning, with the support of public authorities.
• .Support training programmes development in the fields of permitting, impact assessment and technical regulations.

Best Practice No.4:  Ohne Hände keine Wende’s (OHKW) career change courses.

Best Practice No. 5: Prodeval's in-house training centre.