Green Vocational Education and Training in the Fehmarnbelt-project

The project investigates how vocational education and training (VET) can contribute to sustainable transformation by promoting green skills, understood broadly as knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in, develop and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society. The main empirical focus of the project is the Fehmarnbelt tunnel project – the largest infrastructure
project in Danish history – and its effort to train 500 apprentices through socially and ecologically sustainable training practices. The project employs collaborative governance theory to analyse how governance by key stakeholders in the VET-system – particularly the state, schools, companies and unions – can be structured to deliver green vocational skills. GREENVET emloys a range of methods – including semi-structured interviews, observation, document studies and surveys – to study how green skills are defined by stakeholders and made actionable through concrete projects and training practices.