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Foundation KredEx’s proposal “BUILDEST” to the CIP IEE programme successful!

Invent Baltics OÜ consultants helped the consortium of five (5) Estonian partners, lead by Fund KredEx, to submit a successful project proposal to the Intelligent Energy – Europe (IEE) Call for proposals CIP-IEE-2011-1: "Development of the Estonian Continuing Education and Training Roadmap and Action Plan for the Building Sector to 2020" (BUILDEST, N° 297454). The other partners include the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Faculty of Civil Engineering of Tallinn University of Technology, the Estonian Association of Construction Entrepreneurs and the National Examinations and Qualification Centre.

The objective of the BUILDEST project is to embed training on efficient and sustainable energy solutions for buildings in the mainstream curricula and practice of building professionals in Estonia, taking into account the expected contribution of the building sector to the national 2020 targets and the requirements for ‘nearly zero-energy buildings’.

The two (2) major outputs from the BUILDEST project include:

1)   A comprehensive analysis of the status quo of the Estonian building sector on different levels provided in Project Month 6: clarification and description of training and qualification needs, development perspectives in the building sector and the overall legal, political, educational environment with respect to providing energy-efficiency aware and capable workforce; and

2)   The Estonian Continuing Education and Training Roadmap and Action Plan for the Building Sector to 2020 by Project Month 18 taking into account the results and conclusions of the status quo analysis and focusing on energy efficiency knowledge and skills. The Roadmap will contribute to further development of the national continuing education and training programmes and qualification system of the building sector workers supported by relevant stakeholders and market actors nationwide.

The ultimate goal of the Roadmap and Action Plan is to encourage relevant national stakeholders to provide trainings, modify and innovate (the existing) qualification system requirements so as to improve considerably the level of continuing education in the building sector, taking into account common European trends and generating requirements for the development of new qualifications.

Project duration: 18 months
Project total budget: ca 300 000 EUR