What is the project changing?
The SB Bridge project aims to reduce the mismatch between higher education and its graduates and the green and blue labour market, improving the motivation of young people to study and work in the green and blue sector.
What was the challenge?
Despite many good initiatives to increase the share of the labour force working in the blue and green economy, the South Baltic Region was facing the need to identify and overcome obstacles, such as lack of interest of young people in technical education, students’ interest in blue and green studies and the mismatch between higher education and the labour market in the green and blue sector.
What is the project creating?
The project aims to build a bridge between education and the demands of engaging SMEs by developing a new approach based on the German concept of “TechnOlympics”, which was piloted in the SoBaTo project in SBP 2007-2013. It is based on a concept in which cross-border events with a competitive nature are designed to stimulate students’ interest in technology and innovation.
Project website
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Full project description
Despite a lot of good initiatives to increase the share of labour force working in the blue and green economy, the South Baltic Region is still facing the need to identify and overcome the obstacles like the lack of interest of youth for technical education, the interest of pupils in blue and green studies and a mismatch between higher education and the labour market of the green and blue sector. The challenge to be addressed by the project “SB Bridge” is to reduce the mismatch between higher education and their graduates and the green and blue labour market, to improve motivation of young people for green and blue related studies and jobs. The project is aiming build a bridge between education and requirements of engaging SMEs by developing a new approach based on the German concept of the “TechnOlympics”, which was piloted in the Project SoBaTo in SBP 2007-2013. The targeted project SB Bridge is based on the concept where cross boarder events of a competition (in theoretical and practical tests) to arouse students’ interest in technics and innovation. The purpose is an innovative approach to raise motivation and develop matchmaking between skilled pupils and graduates and SMEs within the SB region. The intended project will develop this concept towards blue and green industries and required skills to the whole SBP Region by involving more partners: APs, SMEs and other interested groups. Project will cover several WPs, related to informal education with strong focus on green technologies, cross border thematic camping in all PPs countries, also skills development sustainability activities.
