LIFE creating green jobs and skills
Launched in 2010, a flagship initiative ‘New Skills for New Jobs’ within the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, aims at creating new job opportunities in the EU. LIFE a dedicated EU financial instrument for the environment, has also demonstrated their ability to contribute to this agenda.
LIFE has stimulated green skills and jobs and contributed to the emergence of a green jobs market where employers and employees can find each other. In doing this, LIFE projects have promoted the transition to a greener and more sustainable economy where growth does not take place at the cost of the environment. This publication illustrates how the programme has played its part in creating permanent jobs and training schemes that have lasted well beyond the duration of LIFE funding.