<< Background >>In order to fight against climate change, the European Commission has planned to reduce Europe’s emission of greenhouse gases by 80% to 95% in 2050. The environmental protection will lead every European country to use more and more renewable energies. The renewable energies are characterized by their intermittence. They will consequently bring some needs for energy storage on the network, that will make the network management far more complex. The solutions aren’t easy to find but for sure they will lead to interconnections between different energy networks: electricity, gas, heat, etc. This transition, between current energy networks and the one needed tomorrow, will require new knowledge. This is especially true for technicians who will need to be more versatile in their day to day activities. They will require to understand not only the problematics of one specific sector, but also see the whole picture.Current teaching courses across Europe are not constructed that way. The courses are generally separated (some dealing with electricity, others with gas production or treatment) dedicated to different students with no particular interactions.This leads to labour market problematics that can be already seen today. According to the study “Employment in the EU-28 by Member State and RES employment per population” published by the European Commission in July 2020, the renewables sector accounted for over 1.5 million jobs in 2018 in the EU. Implementing the Paris Agreement, in full worldwide, which would limit global warming to 2°C by the end of the century, could create 18 million net additional jobs by 2030 due to changes in the production and use of energy. The consequence is that about 1.5 million highly skilled people must be trained every year in Europe.In France for instance, according to a study from EDEC, ordered by the Energy strategic committee, it was demonstrated that 200 000 jobs should be created before 2030 in the electrical field. However, the study clearly highlights that the technician job, and especially jobs related to maintenance and operation, are already very difficult to find. These profiles are already quite rare and will be in even higher demand tomorrow. In the Netherlands the SER (Socio-economic council) stated in 2018 that there is already a shortage of around 20.000 technicians in the country. The need to prepare these professionals, or by initial training or by vocational training is then viewed as a priority for universities of the energy field. Thus, there is a clear need for more advanced training programs, handling the above-mentioned topics, and targeting more specifically technician level students.<< Objectives >>The GREEN TECH project aims at breaking down the barriers that exist today between individual energy system training courses in order to train more versatile technicians. This broad knowledge and skill versatility are a key competence that industrials working in the energy field are requiring more and more on the labour market. The consortium wants to create a full course, composed of training units on Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Green Gas. Moreover, it is planned to also highlight the necessity of the connections between those units with two more units on Network Management and Storage and Different Usages based on real world industrial use cases. These units will be shared by every member of the consortium and will create new higher education courses, as well as potential for vocational training. The consortium will also share the knowledge through a MOOC allowing to make the content created within the framework of the project available to high education actors involved in initial or continuing training.<< Implementation >>The project will produce a large survey, deployed in all partner countries, giving information on Energy transition strategy of the country, technical developments and innovations, new competences needed for energy transition (M1-M6 / January 2022 – June 2022). This survey will be used to adapt the content of the different training units. It will also have great added value as such, allowing a comparison of different European countries strategy.The project will produce training units, mixing theoretical content, practical exercises and real use cases study, in line with the results of the first phase (M5-M18 / May 2022 – June 2023). The originality of this course being to gather different notions that are normally trained separately, as expected by the objective that this project intends to reachThe testing phase will cover over 18 months, 2 sessions will be organized (M19-M36 / July 2023 – December 2024). Each university will be in charge of testing the introduction module. Partners having developed (or co-developed) a module will test them on their site. For those who do not have the competency, module leaders will be invited to test their modules in 2 to 3 other universities as visiting teachers. Using this method, good practices and contents will be shared across universities. Two generations of students (80 per year during two years of experimentation, hence 160 students) will obtain this broad view and at least 20 teachers per year will learn new competencies. The described barriers will slowly break down.Finally, the dissemination actions which will be done in the frame of this project will make sure that as many industrials as possible, including all of those who were involved in the initial survey, will be made aware of the existence of this European made broad content. They will be aware of where to look for their employee needs.<< Results >>The main project results are the training courses and the MOOC created by the end of the project. The survey and the mapping of the different stakeholders acting in the energy transition will be an added value for a better knowledge of this changing environment and of the interconnections between the different energy sectors. Moreover, the project could be an open window through a long-term interconnection between members of the consortium. This could lead to other common trainings, to student’s exchange, etc. This project is a key to train the new generation of technicians ready to work for the European energetic mix. Indeed, it will create bound between universities and between future technicians as well. To enable Europe to meet its commitments, Europe needs to work as one. This project is a real answer to this problematic.