Research project CYCLE: Coordination & valuation of short-cycle accelerated training for the green transition
Uncertainty and urgency around the green transition have manifested around skills and labour shortages: who will work in jobs that require skills for the green transition and how will they be prepared?
CYCLE is a mixed-methods project that examines how short-cycle, accelerated education, offered through higher vocational education (HVE), has been mobilised for coping with skills bottlenecks across Sweden. The study seeks to address three queries: How have green training programmes (GTPs) been launched and how have skills in these programmes been identified and justified? Why do participants engage in these forms of learning and how do they experience preparation for their work roles and tasks? How does training participation differentiate eventual labour market trajectories?
GTPs in three municipalities across Sweden will be selected as strategic cases, where in-depth qualitative interviews will be conducted with participants and training providers. Register data will be used to analyse trajectories of participants before and after training, as well as the extent of training offerings launched across the country. Due to the assemblage of actors involved in HVE provision, this study is guided by pragmatic sociology and conventions theory to explore processes of coordination, valuation and justification in this dual transition: the education-to-work transition of individuals, and the green transition confronting organizations and society.
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Familjen Kamprads stiftelse
