Labour Needs of the EU’s Green Transition
On March 21,Dr Huub Mudde, Senior Consultant at MSM, was one of the speakers at the workshop on ‘Labour Needs of the EU’s Green Transition’. In his presentation he focused on how the MSM MOBILISE project is contributing to overcoming the skills gap in the Netherlands, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Tunisia in the horticulture sector.
The workshop, organised in the context of the EU Labour Mobility Practitioners’ Network by ICMPD together with the Center for Global Development (CGD),brought together labour migration practitioners and representatives from industry, research, and government, to explore the labour demand created by the green transition in the EU and the role that skilled labour migration, combined with support for training at home and abroad, could have in meeting this demand.
Important aspects mentioned at the workshop were the need to have a profound involvement of the private sector, the need to couple training with international mobility, alignment of skills development between host countries and countries of origin, the importance of working with trustworthy education and training providers, and the need for cost-sharing mechanisms in relation to the complexity of sustaining circular migration.
In his contribution to the discussion, Huub Mudde shared MOBILISE’s positive experience of the active involvement of companies in all the four countries. Furthermore, he stressed the need to focus on cross-cutting twenty-first century skills, because that are skills required by all workers and will also be needed in future. He indicated that the latest technological innovations could be taught through involvement of companies.
About MOBILISE
MOBILISE is an EU-funded four-year project (2023-2027) that aims at launching a scalable and institutionally entrenched circular talent development programme between the Netherlands and Tunisia, Egypt, and Ethiopia for the strengthening of climate-smart agriculture. The project, which specifically targets the horticultural sector, seeks to meet the demands of the labour market in the participating countries by involving partners from the public and private sector while developing cooperation with local higher educational institutions. Visit the MOBILISE website here.
The Migration Partnership Facility
This news item has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union, contracted by ICMPD through the Migration Partnership Facility. The contents of this news item are the sole responsibility of the Maastricht School of Management, Maastricht University and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union and the one of ICMPD.
MSM's Expert Centre on Emerging Economies
This project is part of MSM's Expert Center of Emerging Economies (ECEE) and is led by Project Director Dr. Huub Mudde and Project Manager Stefano Locatelli. The project will run from June 2023 until May 2027. The ECEE department is an expert centre on local economic development in emerging and developing markets. We capacitate managers and professionals from government, private sector, NGOs, and post-secondary education in Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Latin America. We offer consultancy and customized training programs, and we manage complex projects in key sectors, e.g. water, agriculture and health. For more information click here.
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