Forward Looking at the Offshore Renewables will promote the core activity of the Large-scale partnership launching the Pact for Skills in the Offshore Renewable Energies (ORE) sector.FLORES will support the most committed stakeholders in the ORE, underpinning the success of the offshore renewable energy strategy with the stimulation of dedicated training offers. The partnership will promote the skilling process for the new jobs expected in the sector, estimated to account for between 20,000 and 54,000 new workers in the following five years and contribute to improve upskilling opportunities in the field of the actual ORE workforce.Skills intelligence activities will identify and prioritise the most relevant actions in the capacity-building process, covering not only the rapid and complex changes occurring in this industrial ecosystem but also capable of forecasting those changes yet to occur, especially regarding new and emerging technologies. Building on industry insights, the occupational profiles of the offshore renewable energy value chain will be reviewed, contributing to the continuous updating of the ESCO database.The necessary re-skilling and upskilling processes will be stimulated by the FLORES innovative approaches to lifelong learning with the development of specific tools to support existing ORE training offers and smooth access to existing training materials.A set of multilingual educational materials will be developed to promote Ocean Literacy and awareness- raising in career and job opportunities in the European ORE sector, making those more attractive, especially for young people and women.In addition, the bottom-up approach selected by FLORES will feature regional pilot actions adapted to the differing needs of Europe’s sea basins in the Atlantic, the Baltic and the Mediterranean. These pilot actions will form the seed source for future mirror working groups in the large-scale partnership launching the Pact for Skills in the ORE.

CHAlleNGE 4S emerges in the framework of the P4S SHIPBUILDING with the primary objective of updating competences and skills with specific reference to digitalization spill overs and the strong implications in the shipbuilding sector and the secondary one of attracting talents. The overall need set by P4S SB of up/reskill counts 200.000 workers by 2025 and 230.000 new talents to be attracted by 2030. An initial definition of stable methodology to update skills needs and priorities will be the ground for developing targeted actions to reducing the skills gap. Then, a methodology to identify innovative training methods, in certain cases mutually adopted by big companies and SMEs, will open the activity of detailed design of 12 training prototypes and to the implementation of 4 pilot training actions, targeting workers in the maritime sector, addressing different topics connected to digitalization in shipbuilding and covering EQF levels from 3 to 6, which could be replicated in all the regions lamenting the same skills gap. The progressing will be constantly monitored to understand impact on the territory and the measures to facilitate replication and sustainability beyond the project. A dedicated promotion plan will be implemented for the pilot training realization and to attract future professionals.CHAlleNGE 4S will capitalize on previous experiences, in particular training prototypes already defined but never implemented, new training methodologies already tested in maritime frameworks. Project activities are defined for workers and future professionals and, among the expected results, the project will provide: a methodology to perform the training gap analysis, a catalogue of fully defined training prototypes to be used beyond the project, the feedback analysis of 4 pilot actions implemented in 4 different countries with suggestions needed to improve the pilots and proceed with implementation in other EU areas, promotion material to be use for talents’ attraction.

The LeaderSHIP project brings together main industry leaders, EU and national social partners representatives, regional clusters and education providers to collectively boost innovation, competitiveness and resilience in the European shipbuilding sector and the entire maritime value chain, through the development of a sectoral skills strategy, the design and implementation of EU-level training and by building sustainable cooperation of the EU Shipbuilding and Maritime Pact for Skills. Building upon the results of previous Blueprint projects and the knowledge and expertise of the partners, the LeaderSHIP project will design and implement secondary and tertiary training for up- and reskilling current and future workers in key areas to support the industry in meeting the needs of the twin digital and green transition. The project will deliver the current and emerging skills to reduce the carbon footprint of the industry and accelerating the use of renewable energies and new fuels and electrical power. The project will also deliver key skills for the digitalisation of the design and production processes and remote and connected maritime operations. The Project is organised in a top-down approach, it will deliver EU-level courses and qualifications and establish the mechanisms for their recognition and implementation in the different countries and companies in the partnership to facilitate workers and learners mobility. The courses will make use of innovative methodologies and technologies incl. e-learning, WBL and blended learning approaches. Rooted in the EU sectoral social dialogue between employers and workers representatives the Project aims to enlarge and strengthen the existing large-scale partnership by engaging stakeholders across EU maritime ecosystems to promote sustainable cooperation on skills mobilise resources, incentivise upskilling and reskilling actions and promote inter-company and business-education partnerships and collaboration in Europe.