The EU has committed to making its built environment greener in the coming years. With the introduction of the “Fit for 55” package and the proposed revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, building investments are becoming increasingly driven by requirements and opportunities to apply sustainable energy technologies and circularity concepts. However, the competencies and skills needed to support a successful transition to a low-carbon and circular built environment remain a key issue that building stakeholders are struggling to solve.
The EU-funded BUS-GoCircular project understands the importance of a green energy workforce within the construction sector. It aims to address and overcome the challenges of stimulating demand for a circular construction skilled workforce, along with the hands-on capacity building to increase the number of skilled professionals within the workforce across the value chain.
With four webinars, each aimed at a specific target audience and hosted by BUILD UP, this series will highlight how different stakeholders could join forces to reskill and upskill the building sector workforce with circular skills by highlighting the main takeaways and outcomes of the project.
While local authorities can activate their procurement power, SMEs can adapt the open-source training materials developed by the project for their needs. Architects will learn more on how Continuous Professional Development (CPD), while building research centres and training centres will discover units of learning outcomes and comprehensive training materials to upskill professionals in this new area that is circularity.
This is the current programme for this series of webinars
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Date & Time |
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Type of session |
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17 October |
Local authorities’ policy toolkit to promote circular construction skills |
Interactive webinar |
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14 November 11:00 - 12.30 CET |
Unlocking the potential of SMEs: A holistic framework to train SME-workforce in Circular Construction |
Interactive webinar with breakout rooms |
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28 November 11:00 - 12:30 CET |
Are architects ready for circular transition? Continuous Professional Development tools for Europe |
Standard webinar |
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14 December 11:00 - 12.30 CET |
New Training Materials and Methodologies for Up-Skilling in Circular Economy in Construction for Training Centres |
Interactive webinar |
Each webinar will be recorded and posted on the BUILD UP portal and on our YouTube channel
The webinars are open to everyone - to join them you just need to register beforehand. The registration link and more information is coming soon.
Read the series leaflet in the file below
BUS_GoCircular_webinar series overview.pdf
English (4.05 MB - PDF)
