This document discusses the emerging agenda of green skills and a blue economy for technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It outlines a conceptual framework linking local innovations, green skills development, sustainable learning communities, and new economic opportunities in a blue economy. The document proposes discussing how to define this framework, the linkages between educational and economic sustainability, the role of TVET in meeting training needs, approaches to TVET delivery, and potential future collaborative initiatives and projects.

1. Green Skills for a Blue
Economy: The Emerging
TVET agenda for Innovation,
Employability and Lifelong
Sustainability
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya

2. Overview
› Project partners
› Green Skills agenda
› Blue Economy
› SLCs: A new shift in ESD
› Emerging TVET curriculum
› Conceptual framework
› Group work questions
› Plenary group work & findings
› Future initiatives
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

3. Project Partners
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya
Global Association for Educational Technology Research and Development, BC, Canada &
University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Mike Mimirinis & Motoko Fujitani (for Prof. Minoru Nakayama)
Middlesex University, UK & Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

4. Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

5. Green Skills Agenda
Equip the emerging
workforce with the
necessary knowledge
and skills for
sustainable futures in
the face of all potential
global impacts.
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

6. Blue Economy
Gunter Pauli maintains:
Innovative business models are capable
of bringing competitive products and services to
the market responding to basic needs while
building social capital and enhance mindful living
in harmony with nature's evolutionary path.
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

7. SLCs: A New Shift in ESD
Supporting educational initiatives through
localised economic development is the key
aspect of sustainability.
SLCs for localisation with a global outlook.
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

8. Emerging TVET Curriculum
› entrepreneurial job creation schemes
› responsive curriculum development of
education systems
› innovative and sustainable approaches
› integrated into the TVET curriculum
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

9. Emerging TVET Curriculum
› Need to identify educational policy issues
› general global issues and requirements of
TVET education as a new curriculum for
sustainable economic growth
› local needs identification and strategies for
new project ideas and proposals
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

10. Conceptual Framework
Local innovations
New blue economy
opportunities via a
responsive and
bespoke TVET
curriculum
Employability green
skills
Employment
opportunities via
entrepreneurialism of
local communities
with a global
outreach
Sustainable learning
communities
Lifelong
sustainability via a
continuous cycle of
improvement and
development
Green Skills for a Blue Economy
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

11. Group Work Questions
1. Can we define the conceptual framework
around economic sustainable
development linked to the Blue Skills
agenda? Likewise, the conceptual
framework around educational
sustainable development linked to the
Green Skills agenda?
2. What are the linkages between educational
and economic sustainable development?
Are they symbiotic for meaningful
sustainability and if so why?
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

12. Group Work Questions – contd.
3. Can we explore what is the role of
TVET for national and global training
needs towards the emerging new
economy? What are the short-term
versus long-term needs?
4. How is TVET training delivered in each
participant’s country?
ü From this what are the key similarities and
differences amongst group members?
ü What represents a high quality and
meaningful sustainable education system
for TVET implementation?
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

13. Plenary Group Work & Findings
› All participants information
(name, email, affiliation
etc.) will be recorded on
the mind map
› All the materials will be
collected by the facilitators
› Each group reporter will
present their findings
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014

14. Future Initiatives
› Collaborative projects and funding
initiatives
› Future authors towards ideas and
case studies of Green Skills for a
Blue Economy
Steven Coombs & Madhumita Bhattacharya, GAETRD © 2014