Enhancing skills for a green transition in the Eastern Partnership countries

This year EU Green Week focused on skills for sustainable, resilient, and socially fair communities. As part of this campaign, EU4Environment organized an online regional meeting “Enhancing skills for a green transition in the Eastern Partnership” on 8 June 2023.

The 2023 EU Green Week, in the framework of the European Year of Skills, aimed to create a new momentum to reach the EU 2030 social targets of at least 60% of adults in training every year, and at least 78% in employment. To contribute to these ambitious targets, the EU4Environment implementing partners were called to focus this year on skills for sustainable, resilient and socially fair communities. 

The purpose of this campaign was to raise awareness and educate people in the region about the importance of protecting the environment and promoting sustainable living practices, highlighting the importance of “green” skills – skills which will empower people to join and contribute to a green transition.

Thus, within the EU Green Week 2023, EU4Environment’s event targeted both the public authorities and business sector. A distinguished panel of speakers from international institutions and the region presented for government officials:

• e-learning course on green economy for civil servants;
• overview of capacity building events on environmental compliance assurance systems;
• trainings on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) with a special session on Ukraine in support of greening the post-war reconstruction of cities.

Representatives from business sector learnt more about:

• eco-labelling and introduction of a new course;
• circular economy principles and practices.

Since 2019, EU4Environment has been supporting the civil servants, experts, businesses from the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to boost their awareness, knowledge and build skills on green economy through a variety of targeted trainings and regional knowledge sharing.