Training at the cluster

In creating its training strategy, the cluster focuses on three specific areas:

1. Demand analysis with a view to targeting the current and future needs of the cluster’s members.
2. Analysis of the geographical scope of the existing supply with a view to harnessing all possible synergies in a balanced manner; making better use of all the resources available in Wallonia; ensuring that the activities carried out by different organisations do not overlap.
3. Comparative analysis of supply and demand in order to bring to light existing needs to be addressed through corrective actions.

The cluster training strategy is focused primarily on two types of needs among member companies:

• The green symbiosis of existing fields (eg: design/architecture, heating and ventilation, chemical/biological processes), where training courses and content remain largely to be developed.
• New green occupations: completely new careers that came into being a few years ago in response to the deepening of environmental concerns. These new green occupations include: carbon auditor, life-cycle analysis expert, energy/environmental auditor/advisor, eco-designer, thermographer, biomass expert, carbon strategist, industrial ecologist, waste evaluator/broker, fitting engineer installing technologically advanced insulation solutions, etc.

The development of skills must be prioritised in the following 12 areas:

• Green vocabulary and concepts
• Regulations, standards, tax, incentives, management systems and eco-labels
• Environmental planning (Green Business Management)
• Life-cycle analysis and eco-design
• Management of the material cycle
• Industrial management of organic materials
• Green chemistry and green engineering
• Sustainable construction
• Advanced environmental technologies (linking in with the GreenWin clusters’ R&D projects)
• Multidisciplinarity and technological integration
• Multiculturalism
• Management of collaborative innovation projects

The cluster supports the training projects put forward by its members and also develops its own training modules.