- This call for grants, which offers new training opportunities to boost the green transition from all sectors, is co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+).
- Training projects may be aimed at unemployed, working and entrepreneurial people and may be presented in groups.
The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has launched a new call for grants on a competitive basis for the acquisition or improvement of skills to promote the ecological transition.
This call (open to public and private legal entities, profit or non-profit, and groups of these) will support training projects aimed at facilitating access to the labor market and promoting new professional learning and entrepreneurship, encouraging actions that promote gender equality and equal opportunities between women and men and the reduction of gender gaps.
This call for grants, endowed with up to 30 million euros, will support training projects aimed at unemployed, working and entrepreneurial people within the framework of a culture of lifelong learning.
The scope of intervention of the call extends to the entire national territory and the projects submitted may be developed in one or more autonomous communities or cities.
The projects, with a maximum duration of 24 months, must be framed within one of the following lines of action: line 1 “Training for the acquisition or improvement of skills for green employment” for training projects aimed at unemployed or working people for the acquisition or improvement of skills and qualifications that facilitate access, improved adaptation to the labor market, the promotion of professional retraining and green entrepreneurship; line 2 “Practical training for unemployed people “learning by working”” for training projects aimed at improving the employability of unemployed people, through work contracts, including work contracts for training in alternation or equivalent, whose training will be directly related to such work and will favor labor insertion.
As for the budget, the minimum amount requested per project will be 150,000 euros and the maximum amount requested will be 2,000,000 euros. For projects presented by a group, the minimum amount requested by each of the entities that make up the group shall be 75,000 euros.
The themes of the projects must be in line with the 14 identified as priority sectors with a high potential for transformation, reconversion and job creation detected in the study “Employment and ecological transition. Yacimientos de empleo, transformación laboral y retos formativos en los sectores relacionados con el cambio climático y la biodiversidad en España”, published in 2023 by the Fundación Biodiversidad and the Oficina Española de Cambio Climático del Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico. These are: urban renaturation, management of natural heritage and protected areas, ecological restoration, sustainable nature tourism, sustainable farming (agriculture, livestock and beekeeping), sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, sustainable forest management, circular economy (prevention, management and transformation of waste), energy rehabilitation of buildings and energy efficiency, low energy housing construction, urban environment: urban planning and sustainable mobility, renewable energy production, climate emergencies: protection and response to extreme events, and electrified means of transport (electric vehicles).
Applications, whose deadline is June 2, 2024, must be submitted through the Fundación Biodiversidad website, https://fundacion-biodiversidad.es/convocatorias_emplea/cofinanciado-por-el-fse/, and an e-mail address has been set up to handle queries from interested persons and entities: empleaverde@fundacion-biodiversidad.es.
