Moderated by Mariana Fernández, from Sustainable Innovations, the session addressed the energy transition, which is the centrepiece of all EU policy plans. This transition to a climate-friendly economy is not a purely national challenge but EU-wide. That’s why the European Commission has introduced the “Green Deal” growth strategy in all policy plans, especially those referring to doubling the renovation rate and one million workers to be brought into the construction industry.

During her presentation, Amandine De Coster-Lacourt, from CINEA, spoke about how LIFE Clean Energy Transition is supporting the upskilling of building professionals, highlighting that "We have opened a topic to reboot the National Qualification Platforms, to update the Status Quo Analysis and the National Roadmaps..."

Then it was the turn of the "Mechanisms for matching skills and their validation" section, managed by Irini Barbero, Research Assistant School of Engineering Cardiff University. Barbero underlined the work being done by six European projects in the field: BUSGoCircular, BUSLeague, CraftEdu, HP4ALL, INSTRUCT and sEEtheSkills.

The last panellist to take the floor was Paul McCormack, Innovation Manager at Belfast Metropolitan College and ARISE project coordinator. His intervention revolved around the following question: "How do we use digitalization, how do we use that digital transformation as that necessary step to get the clean construction we require in Europe?"

To answer, McCormack made use of the experience of four other projects:  ARISE, nZEBready, ProHeritage and TRAIN4SUSTAIN.

At the end of the session, a Q&A space was opened where the panellists responded to questions raised by the audience.