The clean energy transition for buildings: Professional associations enhancing renovation skills

All policy instruments enabling and facilitating the clean energy transition in the building sector are falling into place in 2023 at EU level with the adoption of the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) as core elements of the ‘fit for 55’ package (designed to realise the EU Green Deal and more recently also REPowerEU). The journey to bring the buildings related EU policy instruments to practice on the ground doesn’t end here. The EU’s Member States (MSs) need to adequately transpose, implement, enforce and monitor them while fostering and ensuring their practical application by skilled building professionals.

Against this backdrop the session organizers, targeting foremost policy makers and at large the building sector stakeholders, drawn together some of the key institutional, professional and business actors to foster EU-national coordination and address at the fastest pace possible the skills challenges, such as:

• Policy and financing instruments as a linchpin for the skills framework
• Education, training, upskilling and reskilling for bridging the gap ‘available-needed' professionals (KPIs)
• Attractiveness of the sector, including the gender & age dimensions: changing mindsets about technical education and careers at the earliest stages (e.g., children)
• Best practices for designing effective training programmes
• New digital technologies

Slido polls will be used to gather valuable feedback from participants while questions will be collected throughout the session to be answered live or subsequently. 

The session consists of keynote speeches reflecting both EU and national contexts (1/3) and a panel discussion (2/3) for sharing of perspectives and experiences, constructive exchanges, and supporting interactions and debate among the speakers and the participants.

This webinar is brought to you by BUILD UP in cooperation with Federations of European HVAC Association (REHVA), European Builders Confederation (EBC), GCP Europe, Renovate Europe, and EuropeOn. The session will be leveraged afterwards in the form of a REHVA Journal article.

Agenda

14.00-14.05 Presentation of BUILD UP, introduction to the topic and presentation of the agenda

BUILD UP Team

14.05-14.10 Welcome and introduction

Andrei Lițiu, Building Performance Adviser, REHVA / Executive Director, EPB Center

14.10-14.25 Skills for building decarbonisation

Silvia Rezessy, Policy Officer, DG ENER B3

14.25-14.40 Guidance on the climate resilience of buildings

Andras Toth, Policy Officer DG CLIMA E1

14.40-14.50 The BUILD UP Skills Initiative

Amandine De Coster-Lacourt, Project Adviser, CINEA D1.3

14.50-15.00 The Bulgarian BUILD UP Skills road mapping

Dragomir Tzanev, Executive Director, EnEffect

15.00-15.50 Panel discussion: Each panellist will start with an opening statement of 5 minutes

Moderated by Alice Corovessi, Managing Director of INZEB (Greek National Partner of Renovate Europe) and a Vice-Chair of Renovate Europe (TBC)

• Andrei Lițiu, Building Performance Adviser, REHVA / Executive Director, EPB Center 
• Fernando Sighcos Jiménez, Secretary general, EBC
• Pär Lundström, Senior Skills and Policy Advisor, Installatörsföretagen, GCP Europe/EuropeOn

15.50-15.55 Closing remarks

Fernando Sighcos Jiménez, Secretary general, EBC

15.55-16.00 Thank you from BUILD UP

BUILD UP Team