Skills Alliance for the Green, Digital and Social Transformation of the Energy Intensive Industries

Skills4EII project will uptake the results of the European Steel Skills Alliance (ESSA) and the Skills Alliance for Industrial Symbiosis (SPIRE-SAIS) and further develop them within the project aligned with the Large-Scale Partnership Energy Intensive Industries (LSP EII) under the Pact for Skills. Essential part is to identify and adjust additional cross-sectoral and sector specific skills gaps for specific sectors and national-regional skills and training ecosystems. Skills4EII create a common framework integrating specificities of all industries to continuously and proactively adjust the skills demands of the energy intensive industries (including further process industries).

This will be done by expanding the results of the two blueprint projects and develop a broader alliance and framework to close the skills gaps for specific (additional) sector needs (e.g., SME specific skills in the ceramic sector) and use synergies for cross-sectoral relevant topics and activities (such as Image & Recruitment, cooperation for the exploitation of Industrial Symbiosis, Industry 5.0, Artificial Intelligence). It is essential to open and scale up the challenges and gaps already identified and those still to come in a more general scope (beyond steel and industrial symbiosis) and to focus on the one hand, on the specific needs of the different industrial sectors (Steel, Minerals, Water, Engineering, Logistics, Non- Ferrous Metals, Ceramics, Raw Materials, Chemicals, Cement, Pulp & Paper, Refinery). On the other hand, the rollout to existing and new national-regional ecosystems is key. Central element to support this is the online training platform HUB 5.0 (integrating the ESSA steel HUB and the SPIRE-SAIS online platform SKILLS4Planet). Furthermore, Skills4EII is also taking the next steps toward a Process Industry 5.0, becoming more human-centric, sustainable, and resilient.

Project Partners:

• A. SPIRE, Belgium
• World Steel Association AISBL – WORLDSTEEL, Belgium
• Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade - ISQ, Portugal
• CIAOTECH SRL, Italy
• HENEM BV, The Netherlands
• Innopharma Research Limited – InnoPharma, Ireland
• Asociación de investigación de las industrias cerámicas AICE – ITCAICE, Spain
• H2O-PEOPLE BV – H2OP, Netherlands
• Fundacion Zaragoza Logistics Center – ZLC, Spain
• European Chemical Employers Group – ECEG, Belgium
• European Federation for Welding Joining and Cutting – EWF, Belgium
• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology – IPS, Bulgaria
• Celsa Opco, SA – CELSA, Spain
• Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Pentru Metale Neferoase Sirare-Imnr – IMNR, Romania
• European Aluminium – EA, Belgium
• ArcelorMittal Spain Holding SLU – AMSH, Spain
• Sidenor Aceros Especiales SL – SIDENOR, Spain
• Industrial Minerals Association Europe AISBL – IMA Europe, Belgium,
• Idener Research & Development – Agrupación de Interés Económico Idener, Spain
• Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto entidad religiosa – UD, Spain
• Universidade de Lisboa – ULisboa, Portugal
• Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento s Anna – SSSA, Italy
• Bastas-Baskent Cimento Sanayi ve Ticaret AS – Bastas Cement, Turkey
• Rina Consulting - Centro Sviluppo Materiali Spa – RINA-CSM, Italy
• Union de Empresas siderúrgicas – UNESID, Spain
• Infraserv Gmbh & Co. HochsT KG – Infraserv, Germany
• Associaçao portuguesa da quimica Petroquimica e Refinaçao – APQuímica, Portugal
• Plateforme Technologique Europeenne de L'acier – ESTEP, Belgium
• Association Europeenne de L'acier – EUROFER, Belgium
• Stichting Circle Economy, The Netherlands
• Eurometaux, Belgium
• European Trade Union Association de Fait – industriAll, Belgium

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For more information about the project, please contact:

Carolina Ciprés, Principal Investigator, ccipres@zlc.edu.es

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme under Grant Agreement No 101184954