Annual assembly of the Green Skills for Hydrogen project’s partners
On May 28th and 29th, Enerdata joined the annual assembly of the Green Skills for Hydrogen project's partners in Kozani, Greece. Enerdata, along with Hydrogen Europe, presented its work on mapping the existing and future demand for hydrogen skills and qualifications. The market mapping provided a detailed analysis of the current, future, and missing hydrogen skills and competencies required to support the growth of this key sector contributing to the energy transition. The analysis was constructed based on feedback from hydrogen stakeholders across EU member states, focusing on industrial players and project developers. Enerdata and Hydrogen Europe formulated the first European Hydrogen Skill Strategy, which provides key insights into market requirements and offers a roadmap with strategic recommendations.
This analysis and these recommendations provide foundational insights and information to the project’s other working groups, which are engaged in constructing targeted training modules and programs. Additionally, partners are working on promoting and enhancing the attractiveness of hydrogen training programs to encourage more European youth to join this evolving green sector.
Snapshots of the key elements of the strategy:
Coverage of the market analysis:
Six pillars of the strategy of Green Skills for Hydrogen
Development of the Strategy for Green Skills for Hydrogen
September 30th, 2022
The European Union selected Enerdata to be part of a project of more than 30 various entities, led by Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, to develop a programme named “Hydrogen Skills Strategy”.
The hydrogen industry is emerging and is considered as a key energy vector for the future, specifically thanks to the green hydrogen. The current concern for market players is to develop and secure the specific skills requested to support the fast expansion as well as the continuous evolution of hydrogen, throughout the value chain, at short, medium, and long term.
To this end, the European Union defined, in the scope of Erasmus+, an education programme serving a sustainable Hydrogen Skills Strategy. The stakes are multiple: building bonds between Industry and Education for long-term partnerships, developing a skills strategy, and then, implementing, testing and rolling-out the training curricula and programmes in line with latest market needs.
Our expertise in clean technologies, and particularly in hydrogen, will enable to identify the occupational profiles and to assess the needed skill throughout the hydrogen value chain in all European countries. We will realise desk research to capitalise on previous publications, and a specific study based on interviews with the industry and key stakeholders.
We will then work, with other project partners, on defining the long-term “Hydrogen Skills Strategy” that will help education and training entities to develop various specific programmes.