Green4Work Project Has Officially Started! And It’s About Real People, Not Just Projects

In early December, we returned from Belgrade with more than meeting notes and photos. We returned with a shared understanding that green skills are no longer a future trend – they are becoming a basic requirement in today’s labour market.

On 5–6 December 2024, the Green4Work project officially kicked off in Belgrade, hosted by Academy of Professional Studies Polytechnic, the project coordinator. For two intensive days, partners from five countries sat around the same table, not to talk in abstract terms, but to align on one clear question:

How do we make green and digital skills truly accessible and useful for unemployed adults?

More than a partnership on paper

Green4Work is not a symbolic partnership or a “tick-the-box” Erasmus+ project. From the very first meeting, it was clear that this project is built around people we work with every day – unemployed adults, jobseekers, and those who often get left behind when new skills and opportunities emerge.

Together with partners from Italy, Lithuania, Greece, and Spain, we agreed that training only matters if it:

• is practical and understandable,

• leads to recognised outcomes,

• and genuinely improves someone’s chances in the labour market.

That is exactly what Green4Work is designed to do.

What Green4Work is aiming to change

At its core, the project focuses on four interconnected goals:

• Strengthening green skills so unemployed adults can better respond to the growing demand for sustainability-related roles.

• Building digital competence, not as a separate topic, but as a tool that supports greener ways of working.

• Ensuring inclusive access, especially for people from marginalised or disadvantaged backgrounds.

• Introducing recognised micro-credentials, so learning results are not just personal achievements, but formally valued in the labour market.

These are not theoretical ambitions. Over the next two years, they will translate into training programmes, an online learning platform, pilot workshops, and concrete certification pathways.

An international team with a shared direction

The Green4Work consortium brings together organisations with complementary experience:

• Academy of Professional Studies Polytechnic (Serbia) – project coordinator

• ELEAF IMPRESA SOCIALE SRL – expertise in social innovation and green practices

• Asociacija Socialinis hubas – adult education, inclusion, and work with unemployed groups

• i4ea Sustainability Engineering & Training P.C. – sustainability engineering and training

• QUALIFICALIA ANALYTICS S.L. – data-driven skills analysis and labour market insight

What united the group in Belgrade was not just professional expertise, but a shared commitment to making learning useful, realistic, and respectful of learners’ situations.

What happens next?

The kick-off meeting marked the start of active work. Curriculum development is already underway, planning for pilot trainings has begun, and the foundations for the Green4Work e-learning platform are being laid.

For participants, this means that accessible training opportunities are coming – with content that reflects real labour market needs and certifications that actually matter.

We will share updates as the project progresses, including insights from the development phase and announcements about upcoming trainings.

Follow Green4Work – because the work has started, and the learning is just beginning.