Developing Capacities in the Area of VET for Green Energy Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa

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The project is developed based on the actual needs of the target groups VET providers and stakeholders active in the green energy sector in African countries. VET4GREEN aims at building the capacity of the beneficiary organisations, individuals representing the target groups, supports the development of the necessary skills and facilitates the exchange of transnational good practice by fostering cooperation between European and African partners. The project will make the VET courses more labour-market oriented and relevant as it improves the level of competences, skills and employability potential of VET course students by developing new and innovative VET education programmes. The needs of the underrepresented groups and persons coming from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are considered in the project design. VET4GREEN raises the awareness of the target group representatives from Poland, Sweden, Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda on the need of updated VET for preparing students for success in green energy sector and disseminates information on the project outcomes and outputs created via comprehensive PCDP. The target groups of the project are: VET institutions, Teachers, curriculum designers in the VET centres, Employers and Employers’ organisations, University students, VET students, young professionals, Companies from green energy sector. The project involves 4 organisations from Europe (CEEC, Formac, NDF, FKARIBU) and five from Sub-Saharan Africa HIPDET (CM), SVK (KE), HiED (KE), PTU (SO), HiRi (RW) and features the following activities: 5 International Online Trainings Courses for Assessing and Validating Learning Outcomes in VET, 2 International Online Workshops, Study Visit to Poland, research and analysis phase, work of the VET Counsellors, development of the 2 VET teaching programmes, preparation of the 2 course-specific Handbooks, development of the Online Platform/Self-learning tool, Work-based trainings in the green energy sector company.