The Work Seminar on Employment, Training and Training for the Ecological Transition, which took place at the headquarters of the Biodiversity Foundation, has created a space for reflection and production of ideas on the job profile of strategic occupations and the training and training needs, fundamental parts of the ecological transition.

This seminar consisted of a day of joint reflection that will complement the results of the “Study on sources of employment, new knowledge and skills and creation of technical and professional capacities related to mitigation and adaptation to climate change and the conservation of biodiversity, green infrastructure, connectivity and ecological restoration in Spain”. promoted by the Biodiversity Foundation (FB) and the Spanish Office for Climate Change (OECC), both of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, which will see the light of day next year.

Valvanera Ulargui, director of the OECC, stressed that the study “not only aims to identify possible strategic professions on the road to an ecological transition, but also, specifically, the opportunities that arise in the field of biodiversity” and added that “they are basic elements to develop the political and legislative frameworks that we are moving forward and that will be the tractors capable of changing all public and private structures and even individuals, to advance in the ecological transition”.

For her part, Elena Pita, director of the Biodiversity Foundation, highlighted how, with a view to the new period 2021-2027 faced by the Empleaverde Programme, co-financed by the European Social Fund, “we will launch new calls to support this skills revolution and find the training that is required”. In addition, he added that “for the design of the programme we wanted to base ourselves on the analysis of strategic sectors and the capacities and competences that we are going to need”.

The participants in the Seminar, staff from both the public sector and trade union organisations, private companies or social and academic entities, have been divided into several working groups where they have delved into ideas on the job profiles of strategic occupations to promote the ecological transition, the training and training needs, their barriers and opportunities and the available resources. training itineraries and initiatives for future public employment policies. In the same way, a space for reflection has also been created to address the transversality of the gender perspective and territorial and social vulnerability.