The Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) has participated in the project that entitled “GREEN-skiLls for a sustAiNable Development” that promotes social inclusion and fight against poverty by providing unskilled and underprivileged young people with marketable skills in the Green and Circular Economy, with the potential to generate thousands of jobs. To reach its objective, the project will create new curricula based on market needs, skills transfer to NEETs and women, media-based training tools, and cultural exchanges among young people, as the Mediterranean area suffers from extremely high rates of youth and female unemployment.
AASTMT cooperates with the project partners from Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, Italy, Portugal, and Greece, as to achieve the requirements and objectives of the GREENLAND project, where the thematic objective is the Promotion of social inclusion and the fight against poverty, as AASTMT main role is to manage the work package 4 (WP4), which represents the essence of the project, by establishing an e-platform containing specialized curricula based on market needs to transfer skills to NEETs in addition to providing advanced training tools, GREENLAND project is the creation of new employment opportunities that will be reinforced by the sector-skills alliances between the Technical and Vocational Education and Training institutions (TVETs) and the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).