The Biodiversity Foundation of the MITECO launches a call for up to 30 million euros for the acquisition or improvement of skills for ecological transition. This call for subsidieswhich offers new training opportunities to boost ecological transition from all sectors, is co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). Training projects may be aimed at unemployed people, workers and entrepreneurs and may be presented in groups.
The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has launched a new call for subsidies under a competitive competition regime for the acquisition or improvement of skills to promote the ecological transition.
This call (to which public and private legal entities, with or without profit motive, and groups of these may apply) will support training projects aimed at facilitating access to the labor market and promoting new professional learning and entrepreneurship, favoring actions that promote gender equality and opportunities between women and men and the reduction of gender gaps.
This call for subsidiesequipped with up to 30 million euroswill support training projects aimed at unemployed people, workers and entrepreneurs within the framework of a culture of lifelong learning.
The scope of intervention of the call extends to the entire national territory and the projects presented may be developed in one or several autonomous communities or cities.
The projects, whose maximum duration will be 24 months, must be framed in one of the following lines of action: line 1 “Training for the acquisition or improvement of skills for the green jobs” for training projects aimed at unemployed or working people for the acquisition or improvement of skills and qualifications that facilitate access, improvement in adaptation to the labor market, promotion of professional retraining and green entrepreneurship; line 2 “Practical training for unemployed people “learning by working”” for training projects aimed at improving the employability of unemployed people, through employment contracts, including work contracts for alternating training or equivalent, whose training will be directly related with said job and will favor job insertion.
Regarding the budget, the minimum amount requested per project will be 150,000 euros and the maximum will be 2,000,000 euros. For projects presented by a group, the minimum amount requested by each of the entities that form it must be 75,000 euros.
The themes of the projects must adapt to the 14 identified as priority sectors with a high potential for transformation, reconversion and employment generation detected in the study “Employment and ecological transition. Sources of employment, labor transformation and training challenges in sectors related to climate change and biodiversity in Spain”, published in 2023 by the Biodiversity Foundation and the Spanish Office of Climate Change of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
They are the following: urban renaturalization, management of natural heritage and protected areas, ecological restoration, sustainable nature tourism, sustainable agricultural operations (agriculture, livestock and beekeeping), sustainable fishing and aquaculture, sustainable forest management, circular economy (prevention, management and waste transformation), energy rehabilitation of buildings and energy efficiency, construction of low-consumption homes, urban environment: urban planning and sustainable mobility, renewable energy production, climate emergencies: protection and response to extreme events, and electrified means of transport (electric vehicle).
Applications, whose submission period will end on June 2, 2024, must be submitted through the website of the Biodiversity Foundation, https://fundacion-biodiversidad.es/convocatorias_emplea/cofinanciado-por-el-fse/ and an email has been enabled to manage related queries from interested people and entities: [email protected].