Circular Bioeconomy for improving agrifood VET institutes’ teachers’ skills and competencies

To help train and educate the new generation of bioeconomy professionals with the necessary hard and soft skills, we need to rethink and improve our current educational model for the bioeconomy. C...

Circular Bricks’ will: - facilitate knowledge and experience sharing among institutes from different MS. This will allow: (i) rethinking & improving the current European educational model for the circular bioeconomy, providing green sectorial skills strategies and methodologies for VET teachers; and (ii) addressing the need to innovate VET by adapting it to labour market needs. - support VET teachers in the adaptation of their training offer to changing skills needs, green and digital transitions and economic cycles. This will make the circular bioeconomy more attractive for students and local stakeholders, hence stimulating local labour market and improving transnational networking activities. - develop tools and methodologies easily replicable in other MS. - contribute to tackle environmental issues by raising awareness on them and generating knowledge on a specific solution at hand: the circular bioeconomy. This will enable behavioral changes for individual preferences, consumption habits, and lifestyles. - provide students from VET institutes with the opportunity to enhance their entrepreneurial mindsets and skills, encouraging active citizenship and entrepreneurship and increasing awareness on circular bioeconomy