Enhancing green skills, sustainability & attractiveness of Maritime VET.

The European Green Deal officially set as key fundamental priorities for the European Unions’ strategy the focus on green skills, sustainability, environment awareness and fight against climate change, across all unions’ areas and sectors. This paradigm entails a growing demand for green skills throughout most economic sectors, as well as a prevalence of debates on how to achieve the transition to a green economy.

Based on that, Green Diving intends to provide Green Skills in VET education, with a set of skills needed in the in the changing world of work, including the knowledge and competency requirements to make the transition to green economies and societies.

Target Group

VET Teachers / trainers
that teach maritime pathways.

Initial VET students/
trainees (aged 15-25) in a
VET Maritime Pathway.

VET maritime school leaders.

Main Goals

The Green Diving project has a clear twofold
objective which has at its grassroots
the development of pedagogical teaching
resources, capacity building and co-designing
processes that will convey:

Sustainability and green skills development
in maritime VET, by working on VET
students’ level (future maritime professionals),
as well as VET teachers/trainers
and Maritime VET school directors.

The elevation of VET and Maritime professions
attractiveness among school
communities.