About the project
Environmental change has a strong impact on the construction industry, which creates a need for new skills, competences and knowledge in the workforce to achieve a green transition in construction.
In this context, Green Circle project aims to identify, develop, test, and assess the use of micro-credentials in the construction sector to achieve a green transition, while demonstrating the potential for mainstreaming and transfer to other sectors.
Green Circle project will not simply offer a collection of learning resources. The work carried out will show how a rigorous description of job profiles, learning needs, learning opportunities, and the relationships between them can, with appropriate technological support, facilitate the emergence of an ecosystem based on micro-credentials, and linking skills providers, employees, potential entrants to the workforce, and employers.
Objectives
Within this context of social, technical and educational transformation the aim of the Green Circle project, is to identify, develop, test and assess the use of micro-credentials in the construction sector to achieve a green transition, while demonstrating the potential for mainstreaming and transfer to other sectors, thus improving education and training systems across economic sectors. In addressing this aim, the ambition of the project is to catalyse a wider transformation, in which micro-credentials become an accepted part of the employment landscape, and a solution to upskilling requirements. With this in mind, the project generates frameworks, methods and guides which enable replication of the approach. In addressing this aim, the work of the project is deeply entwined with technology. In terms of practice in the construction sector, the technological methods deployed are a major factor in the environmental impact of construction, but also a key enabler of innovation in responding to the challenges presented by the climate crisis. A successful application of technology to achieve a green transition requires both creativity in developing new approaches and adapting new technology, and a new and often higher level of skills in the workforce. In Green Circle, technology is also deployed as a way to raise skills levels in the workforce, providing appropriate skills for rapidly changing labour
markets, and arming the present and future workforce with creativity and skills to confront the growing complexity of environmental and societal challenges.
