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.

Issue 09 – 2024 | Moving in circles

“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

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