Background
What
Chemskills is a European funded project that responds to the ongoing digital and green transition alongside chemicals strategy for sustainability in the chemical industry. We want to identify and develop green and digital skills, design and enhance the quality of curricula and training programs and form sustainable cooperation among sectors. The project is dealing with several sub-sectors of the chemical industry:
Why
The chemical industry, and the whole sector, is undergoing quadruple transition in the next decades. One of the major objectives is to develop green and digital skills and competences to facilitate the “safe and sustainable chemicals by design” concept. This needs a solid and widely accepted approach and strategy to up-/re-skilling within the sector, including closer collaboration among the sectoral stakeholders (industry irrespective of size, training and education providers, social partners, and other types of organisations). That is why the partnership proposes this Blueprint project as the basis to boost and support the work within the skills agenda in the chemical sector, and to achieve the goals of the European Industrial Strategy, Circular economy package and contribute to the implementation of the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (CSS).
Who
The project partnership was established with:
- the specific focus on representation of different types of entities (industry, industrial/sectoral associations (including members and partners of thereof), education and training providers (VETs, HEIs, other), social partners and other types of organisation),
- with focus on the coverage of the European countries in order to facilitate direct links and possibilities in national and regional roll out,
- with focus on the scope coverage (plastics, consumer chemicals, fertilisers, rubber, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals) as the chemical industry covers multiple sectors, and last but not least the partnership was composed
- with strong focus on the expert background and experience of the individual partners.
The project will not only rely on the project partners, but will also involve stakeholders outside of the partnership. We have foreseen to cooperate content-wise with wider groups within the WPs 5 – 10. This will create its basis from stakeholder-wide European partnership and collaboration on skills agenda among the members of the energy intensive ecosystem.
