The project implements a qualification and information campaign on the use of renewable energies in building technology in Overijssel, NRW and Lower Saxony. The target groups are craftsmen and planners from the fields of sanitary, heating and air conditioning, refrigeration and electrical engineering. Training modules have been developed and tested for 12 innovation topics and are currently being established as in-person and online events as well as being multiplied to additional educational institutions. In this way, the professionals in the sectors are qualified to apply and
implement the new technologies in the field of renewable energies.
SMEs are furthermore supported through 2 binational expert conferences and a binational exchange forum with excursions to open up to the topics and the requirements for their operation for the success of the energy transition. This also takes place through publications and a professionally informative website. Thematically, it is about the installation of heat pumps and photovoltaic systems as a central technological leap for the energy transition, as well as the sector coupling of building services and e-mobility, innovative technologies such as smart homes, innovative combined heat and power generation, alternative energy sources such as green hydrogen and biogas.
The project was designed as a cross-border German-Dutch Interreg project because this cooperation can be expected to result in a professional plus due to different technical levels of development and also contributes to structural improvement and cross-border work in the Euregio. The issues are equally relevant on both sides of the border. In both countries, renewables have not yet found their way into vocational training.
