Featured in Moving in circles – 09-2024

Solar school: Shaping the workforce of the future

How can the solar industry maximize its attractiveness to jobseekers and those mulling a career change? Oana Penu, the director of the EU-funded EIT InnoEnergy Skills Institute, tells pv magazine about the recently launched European Solar Academy and how it plans to reskill and upskill thousands of workers within two years.

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Blathnaid O’Dea

06 Sep 2024

“One encouraging trend we are seeing is, among Gen Z there is a really big attraction toward jobs that have a technical or manual component” – Oana Penu, EIT InnoEnergy Skills Institute. | Photo: Oana Penu

Building a skilled solar workforce for almost an entire continent is not easy but inaction is not an option. While the European Union will likely never hit the annual capacity installation figures seen in China, the bloc needs enough PV workers to meet its solar targets.The European Union is experiencing a dearth of electricians trained …

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