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Philippe Kavafyan’s briefing to industry leaders and specialists, and key EU policymakers at the launch of the\u00a0WindEurope report<\/a>\u00a0highlighted wind power’s requirements for engineers, technicians and support staff.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is the biggest challenge we face,” he said. “My job didn\u2019t exist when I graduated. It was some time ago, but even a few years ago, no one would have expected such an exponential growth of our sector.<\/p>\n \u201cNot just wind, but the rest of our infrastructure initiatives that we need for this energy transition in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n Increased demand will create future jobs with roles and skills that we cannot currently define, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to make sure the message is conveyed at every level of the educational system. We need to educate children to picture the world of tomorrow, to make sure that [when we are thinking about] apprenticeships we do not forget there are\u00a0so many technical jobs that are being created in our sector,” he said.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, we need to continue to support innovation all the way up to advanced research, to continue the effort to attract and direct all the talent. We don\u2019t need one specific set of skills, we have a broad range of situations, from biodiversity, all the way to infrastructure, logistics, technical but also service activities are driving a very wide range of skills,” he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe talk about an exponential demand for skills and talent. Practically speaking, in a college in the northeast of Scotland, we are in a position where we can take young people and put them in a one-year rotation.<\/p>\n “So they can hands-on, and get really accustomed to what it is to not only service a wind turbine, but also what it is like for service technicians going offshore, along with the logistics and safety culture that it comes with it. We need to focus on the massive and wide demand for talent that we need to attract into the new jobs of the energy transition.\u201dhttps:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/article\/1697489\/improving-skills-base-the-biggest-challenge-face<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”justified” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Philippe Kavafyan’s briefing to industry leaders and specialists, and key EU policymakers at the launch of the\u00a0WindEurope report\u00a0highlighted wind power’s requirements for engineers, technicians and support staff. \u201cIt is the biggest challenge we face,” he said. “My job didn\u2019t exist when I graduated. It was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ege-windturbines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}