Europe’s Sustainability & Green agendas are providing opportunities for companies to grow where they invest in technologies, digitisation, materials, and skills to reduce carbon emissions and enhance energy efficiencies. To meet the needs of green jobs and industry 4.0 the workforce will need to expand and have higher levels of skills. To achieve this, education and training providers will need to develop upskilling/reskilling programmes that are flexible, offer recognition, provide career pathways. It is estimated that 128 million adults in the EU28 could benefit from upskilling and reskilling opportunities, of which 60 million are low-skilled and at risk of skills obsolescence and unemployment. Thus, it is necessary to invest in new skills development but also, to address social inclusion and equality to underpin provision of training and education. MiCred Green Pathways will provide a micro-credential green skills framework informed by experts from industry, education and training, which can facilitate adults to reskill/upskill within a lifelong learning paradigm to improve employment opportunities. The project consortium which include partners from industry, universities, adult education, VET, and agencies will provide a multilevel perspective to co-create the micro-credential framework, platform, teaching and learning resources to support low skilled adults gain recognised credits for upskilling/reskilling.MiCred project will carry out a comparative analysis of adult education policy in the six consortium countries (Sweden, Ireland, Bulgaria, Spain, Macedonia, Latvia) and research the emerging green skills to inform the development of learning outcomes for the micro-credential framework and platform at EQF Level 4. The project will pilot and test results to develop training material for teachers/trainers to use with low skilled adults. Providing a recognised award for participants and link to pathways for progression and career advancement.

The CATALYST project “European VET Excellence Centre for Leading Sustainable Systems and Business Transformation” is designed with strong vision and motivation to contribute to realisation of the European Green Deal and the new Industrial and SME Strategies.The main goal is with the establishment of united CATALYST Centre of Vocational Excellence in 5 countries to give support, create an educational offer to tackle personal and organisational development, and to embrace transformation in SMEs, enabling and inspiring them to re-think and re-design their business models, co-creating and sharing between educational and business organisations. The project fosters innovation and applied knowledge in approaches of learning and tailor-made VET program via the “Enable component”, as well as support of SMEs to create sustainable businesses via the “Inspire component”.The main project outputs are: 1. 5 CoVEs and CATALYST Network anchored the European VET eco-system;2. 70 VET courses for up-skilling professionals and students;3. Co-create and disseminate applied knowledge inspiring business-education partnerships involving students, professionals and SMEs;4. Create CATALYST Platform which will unite all CoVEs on a European level;5. Implement VET trainings, pilot-project with SMEs and applied joint research projects in selected sectors according to the national S3;6. Raise awareness of the potential CATALYST CoVEs have and increase the demand and attractiveness of VET.Activities are focused on learning opportunities, applied joint research projects, innovative training methodologies and tools and support for SMEs on relevant topics, where more than 5000 beneficiaries (professionals, students and SMEs) can benefit. The desired impact of the project is the established CoVEs to be ‘catalyst’ on national, regional and European level, ‘enable’ change and ‘inspire’ and transformation of individuals and SMEs toward more sustainable systems and societies.