Target groups

The education and training programmes were prepared for the middle and senior level engineers and construction professionals – main target group of the project, while covering the following professions identified in the both roadmaps as key for achieving the EU 2020 energy targets:

1. Civil Engineer – Site Manager;
2. Construction Site Supervisor;
3. Civil Engineer – Energy Counsellor;
4. Architects and Planners;
5. Assessors of the Achieved Energy Efficiency of the Buildings

Experienced professionals (skilled researchers, teachers, managers and other industry experts) in the area covered by the project participated as experts contributing to the preparation of training and training materials and as the trainers of the training to be delivered within this project.

Relevant Slovak and Czech decision makers and opinion formers (including small and medium-sized enterprises and key employers in the construction sector) were invited to discuss supporting measures.

Impact

The ingREeS project brings about the qualitative step-change in life-long learning in the construction sector in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, determining increasing participation rates and effectiveness of education activities. Within this project, professional chamber and associations had met together to develop the system of trainings for middle and senior level engineers and construction professionals that provides the knowledge and the skills corresponding to the European standards and the requirements of nowadays Europe. The ingREeS training courses participants became fully qualified in the area of energy efficiency and use of renewable resources in buildings.

In order to ensure appropriate project implementation, the Slovak and Czech competent authorities and other relevant stakeholders including the small and medium enterprises and other key employers in construction industry were involved in the common dialogue on the financial and regulatory measures that would facilitate investments in skills of construction professionals and support market demand for intelligent energy solutions in buildings.

Achieved results

The project set up national qualification and further training schemes in Slovakia and the Czech Republic for middle and senior level construction professionals on energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources in buildings.

Particularly the project led to:

• development of 16 training modules that are building blocks of 5 education and training programmes;
• setting up permanent network of trainers delivering the training programmes developed under the project;
• training of trainers for delivery of the programmes;
• creating a database of the offered training and awarded certificates to trainees;
• proposal for policy and financial measures to be implemented to facilitate adequate demand response for intelligent energy solutions that would motivate middle and senior level professionals in participating to training programmes, boosting demand for highly qualified professionals and SMEs to invest into continuing education.

The project established necessary resources and prepared technical, organizational and financial conditions for training and re-training middle and senior level construction professionals on energy efficiency and use of renewables of in buildings during the project and beyond its expiry, as all partners continued in further delivering the training and continuously improved and developed the further training schemes that were set up (as their open and modular structure supports continuous improvement and development).