Companies and chambers can take part in the “Alliances for Innovation” campaign as relevant players in vocational training. It aims to strengthen Europe’s capacity for innovation by promoting collaboration and the flow of knowledge between vocational education, training and higher education, including research and entrepreneurship.
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18.05.2021
Nationwide
Press release
DIHK – German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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In doing so, European alliances are intended to encourage the provision of new skills and address the skills deficits of employees by creating new curricula for vocational and higher education and by carrying out a range of cross-border activities. The focus should be on digital and green skills. Two project types are advertised:
- Alliances for education and business: In these transnational projects partners cooperate with common goals for Promote innovation, new skills, initiative and entrepreneurship. The focus is on economic and social challenges such as climate change, demographic change, digitization, artificial intelligence and rapid changes in employment relationships due to labor market innovation. The duration is two to three years, the maximum funding amount is 1.5 million euros per project. At least eight partners from four different EU or program countries must take part.
- Alliances for industry cooperation for competencies (to implement the “blueprint“): These alliances are intended to create new strategic approaches and collaborations for concrete solutions to develop skills in 14 industrial ecosystems: aerospace & defense, agri-food, construction, cultural and creative industries, digital industry, electronics, energy-intensive industry, renewable Energy, health, mobility-traffic-automobile, local supply, social economy and civil security, retail trade, textiles, tourism.
Central concerns are concrete actions for retraining and further education measures for workers or answers to the needs of the labor market with regard to the green and digital change. There are also national, regional and local strategies for skills and growth. With their results, these alliances should make a significant contribution to the work of the industry partnerships of the European Pact for Skills. The duration is four years, the maximum funding amount is four million euros per project. At least twelve partners from eight EU or program countries must take part.
The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), responsible for project selection, will organize a web streaming info meeting in English on June 8th together with the Commission services responsible for education and training in order to discuss the political context and new funding opportunities and explain the submission process. Further information on the required registration can be found here.
Further information is also the new one Erasmus + Program Guide from page 254 and the EACEA website refer to. The deadline for submitting project proposals is September 7th. Here you will find more information on the European Skills Pact.
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