CT announces the completion of GREEN, a European R&D project launched in 2023 and concluded in 2025, designed to create a European Vocational Education and Training (VET) network that contributes to the transition toward a more sustainable economy through sustainability-oriented education and training programs. The project focused on identifying the green skills needed across various industrial sectors and determining how to integrate them into training programs as well as into teacher and professional development. Its goal is to prepare future professionals and trainers to operate in sustainable environments, strengthening the capacity of Vocational Education and Training to support the ecological transition and overcome the limitations of traditional educational models that still do not include sustainability criteria.
Over three years, CT worked alongside European partners—CETMAR, VSB-TU, Mercantec, UCY, EWF, CTI, OLIFE, SWANTEC, and CECIMO—to build the first major VET network committed to sustainability, consolidating an educational model that integrates green skills and promotes the transition toward circular environments.
“GREEN demonstrates that VET can be the driving force behind the ecological transition if it integrates, from day one, the skills that the industry already demands. The result is a European network ready to innovate and share solutions,” says Almudena Casanova Diaz, Business Unit Manager.
Throughout the GREEN project, efforts focused on updating the way VET is taught and learned, ensuring students, teachers, and professionals develop the skills industry already requires. This includes green skills, circular economy knowledge, digital tools for sustainability, and the ability to work in sectors undergoing ecological transformation. With the collaboration of educational centers, research institutions, public administrations, and companies from six countries, GREEN worked to ensure training responds to the real challenges brought by the ecological transition.
To achieve this shift, a series of concrete objectives were defined:
• Innovate in educational policies: develop and test new ways to integrate sustainability into VET and higher education.
• Transform Vocational Education and Training: adapt training programs to address the real challenges of the ecological transition.
• Act in six key sectors: additive manufacturing, automotive, batteries, defense, energy, and maritime.
• Create the “Green Label:” recognize training centers committed to sustainable criteria and shape the future GREEN VET European network.
GREEN is not just a project—it is the foundation of a European network that shares ideas, challenges, and solutions for integrating sustainability into VET. This collaboration has enabled the development of new methodologies linked to the circular economy, promoted more personalized training pathways, and encouraged creativity and innovation in the classroom. Through this, CT strengthens its commitment to a responsible future and contributes to training the professionals who will drive innovation, industrial competitiveness, and sustainability across Europe.
This commitment is reflected in concrete results: from H2TECH4SHIP, the first tugboat powered 100% by hydrogen, to REPERA, CT’s autonomous and ecological system for capturing plastics in rivers and marine environments, and the INSIDeR land simulator designed to support space debris recovery.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not
necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither
the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. Project Number 101087153 — GREEN —
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