Integrate green skills development into technical education

Source: WorldSkills

The quest for a more sustainable world shapes today’s workplace, redefining professional competency requirements. Technical educators play a crucial role in building a better future through fostering the development of green skills.

Festo is at your side to accomplish your mission. Enrich and expand your courses and training programs with turnkey learning solutions. Build a pipeline of qualified workers in key areas:

  • Renewable energy production: Foster the skills to harness regenerative energy sources.
  • Water management: Enable people to make optimal use of water in the industry and beyond.
  • EV and battery manufacturing: Prepare production workers for highly automated production.
  • Sustainable manufacturing: Improve energy efficiency skills throughout industry.

This can be achieved with the integration of relevant topics in factory and process automation, fluid power, electrotechnology, industrial trades, and more.

We can help you effectively prepare a workforce capable of contributing to the sustainable development of your local community and the world. All details on www.festo.com/greenskills

About Festo

Festo is a global player and an independent family-owned company headquartered in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany. Festo has set standards in industrial automation technology and technical education ever since its establishment, thereby making a contribution to the sustainable development of the environment, the economy and society. The company supplies pneumatic and electrical automation technology to 300,000 customers of factory and process automation in over 35 industries. The LifeTech sector with medical technology and laboratory automation is becoming increasingly important. The products and services are available in 176 countries. With about 20,700 employees in over 250 branch offices in 61 countries worldwide, Festo achieved a turnover of around €3.36 billion in 2021. Each year around 7% of this turnover is invested in research and development. In this learning company, 1.5 % of turnover is invested in basic and further training. Festo Didactic SE is a leading provider of technical education and training and offers its customers worldwide comprehensive digital and physical learning solutions in the industrial environment.

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Isabelle Ouellet

Festo Didactic Ltée/Ltd,

Canada