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The National Action Plan for the European Year of Skills was presented by the Minister of Labour and Social Insurance, Mr.
In his address, President Christodoulides referred to the importance for Cyprus of designating this year as the European Year of Skills, noting at the same time that the National Action Plan "Modern Professional Development for the Green and Digital Transition" lays a solid foundation for upgrading the skills of our country's human resources.
In his presentation, the Minister of Labour said that Cyprus, pioneering the actions for the European Year of Skills, formulated the Action Plan, taking into account the objectives of the European Year of Skills, in cooperation with the National Coordinator of the Year. The Plan "Modern Skills Development for the Green and Digital Transition" aims at staffing the labour market with modern professionals, for the growth of the economy and the cohesion of society, and focuses on three main pillars. Developing a modern professional culture
B. Providing socially targeted professional learning
C. Promoting vocational specialization and certification
Explaining the actions under the "most basic", as he described it, pillar for the development of a modern professional culture, Panagiotou said that the aim of the Plan is to train 100.The objective of the Plan is to train 100,000 people (employees, unemployed, students, pupils, national guardsmen, contracted soldiers) by the end of 2024 in four key aspects of professional culture: 1) green development/environment 2) digital skills 3) occupational health and safety and 4) quality of work.
The ultimate aim is to enable participants to seek additional specialised training to develop their skills in these areas and training institutions to meet the resulting interest.
Regarding the second pillar, learning activities will address green, digital, safe and quality vocational skills and will target socially vulnerable groups, people out of education, training or employment (NEETs) aged 15-29 years old, people over 55 years old, women outside the labour market and people with disabilities.
Finally, the professional qualification and certification of existing and future professionals in green and digital economy, construction, hospitality and retail will be promoted.
Specifically, the learning content under this pillar includes programmes for.
The total budget for the new actions included in the Plan amounts to €1.4 million for the programmes to be implemented by the Productivity Centre under the Thaleia Programme, €1.2 million from the Human Resources Development Authority, while the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism will absorb €15 million for existing actions.
In conclusion, Mr. Panagiotou expressed the conviction that, through the learning objective to attract 100 thousand participants of actions to promote, mainly, the modern professional culture, "the results will soon be visible within the next year for the way through which the people of our country will start to have a different approach in relation to the concept of professionalism, in relation to the concept, the dimension of green, digital, safe and quality professional development, so that we can actually manage to raise the level of professional development in the country.
