Author: Nicola Duell, in collaboration with ICF
Client: European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion European Network of Public Employment Services
Publisher: Publications Office of the European Union
Year: 2025
Language: English
The toolkit supports Public Employment Services (PES) to provide practical guidance and promote skills development for the green transition. A key focus is on supporting labour market transitions and improving skills intelligence.
PES can play a significant role in identifying and anticipating skills needs, increasing matching efficiency for green jobs, supporting job-to-job transitions into green and green-driven occupations, and ensuring that the green transition is inclusive.
Areas covered by the Toolkit:
The Toolkit’s five sections include key lessons learned, considerations and recommendations, and examples that PES can use. The sections cover:
- PES strategies in relation to labour market challenges linked to the green transition. The section outlines some PES strategies on internal sustainability or to facilitate the green transition, frameworks for defining green jobs.
- Identification of green skills types allowing PES to work with data to anticipate skills gaps and plan service delivery. This approach focuses on identifying skills required and promotes collaboration with key stakeholders to map future skills requirements, develop services and inform clients.
- Designing PES services and measures to support workforces via facilitation of training for jobseekers and career counselling to assist with the green transition. Other approaches include targeted Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs), alongside targeted services to different groups of PES customers.
- Working with employers to increase collaboration and support workforce development via identifying green skills needs, co-designing training programmes and work-based learning and sectoral partnerships.