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Green Skills for a Blue Economy: The Emerging TVET agenda for Innovation, Employability and Lifelong Sustainability

Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya

Overview �  Project partners �  Green Skills agenda �  Blue Economy �  SLCs: A new shift in ESD �  Emerging TVET curriculum �  Conceptual framework �  Group work questions �  Plenary group work & findings �  Future initiatives

Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

Project Partners


Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya Global Association for Educational Technology Research and Development, BC, Canada & University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Mike Mimirinis & Motoko Fujitani (for Prof. Minoru Nakayama) Middlesex University, UK & Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan


Green Skills Agenda Equip the emerging workforce with the necessary knowledge and skills for sustainable futures in the face of all potential global impacts.


Blue Economy Gunter Pauli maintains:

Innovative business models are capable of bringing competitive products and services to the market responding to basic needs while building social capital and enhance mindful living in harmony with nature's evolutionary path.


SLCs: A New Shift in ESD Supporting educational initiatives through localised economic development is the key aspect of sustainability. SLCs for localisation with a global outlook.


Emerging TVET Curriculum � entrepreneurial job creation schemes �  responsive curriculum development of

education systems �  innovative and sustainable approaches �  integrated into the TVET curriculum


Emerging TVET Curriculum � Need to identify educational policy issues � general global issues and requirements of

TVET education as a new curriculum for sustainable economic growth

�  local needs identification and strategies for new project ideas and proposals


Conceptual Framework

New blue economy opportunities via a responsive and bespoke TVET curriculum

Local innovations Employment opportunities via entrepreneurialism of local communities with a global outreach

Employability green skills

Lifelong sustainability via a continuous cycle of improvement and development

Sustainable learning communities

Green Skills for a Blue Economy


Group Work Questions 1.  Can we define the conceptual framework

around economic sustainable development linked to the Blue Skills agenda? Likewise, the conceptual framework around educational sustainable development linked to the Green Skills agenda?

2.  What are the linkages between educational

and economic sustainable development? Are they symbiotic for meaningful sustainability and if so why?


Group Work Questions – contd. 3.  Can we explore what is the role of

TVET for national and global training needs towards the emerging new economy? What are the short-term versus long-term needs?

4.  How is TVET training delivered in each participant’s country?

ü  From this what are the key similarities and differences amongst group members?

ü  What represents a high quality and meaningful sustainable education system for TVET implementation?


Plenary Group Work & Findings �  All participants information

(name, email, affiliation etc.) will be recorded on the mind map

�  All the materials will be collected by the facilitators

�  Each group reporter will present their findings


Future Initiatives �  Collaborative projects and funding

initiatives �  Future authors towards ideas and

case studies of Green Skills for a Blue Economy
