Skills Working Group: The Green Transition

Join us for our next in-person Skills Working Group meeting, which will explore the international mobility of skilled trades people relevant to the green transition. This meeting will bring together members of BEI and the D Group with guest speaker Helen Dempster, Co-Director, Migration and Displacement and Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development. We will also be joined by Mike Dawe, an international consultant and workforce development expert.

This session will explore three main themes, with participants encouraged to contribute their own views and experience to the discussion:

1. Standardising skills and qualification requirements
   
   • How can this be achieved across priority sectors?
   • What does that look like in practice at the moment, both within the UK and abroad?
2. Accrediting international training providers
   
   • How do you work with stakeholders (e.g. training providers, provincial, and national governments) in identifying priority international markets?
   • How do you identify high-performing training providers and accredit them?
   • What are the barriers to progress?
3. Identifying priority markets
   
   • Which markets offer the most opportunity, according to data on demographic change; existing skill and education levels; and existing linkages with UK education providers?
   • Where and how could UK immigration policy open doors for international green-skilled workers?
   • How can international accreditation improve the UK’s soft power abroad?

Agenda:‍

09:00 – 09:30 Arrival and Networking over tea and coffee

09:30 – 11:00 Session which includes brief opening remarks from Helen Dempster followed by the roundtable discussion and workshop session focused on the three above themes

11:00 – 12:00 Networking over tea and coffee