A more sustainable working environment
Zukunft - Umwelt - Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH
2024
From renewable energies to recycling to regionality: there are many levers for improving sustainability. At its centre, however, are people. It is the people who will be required to have the necessary skills and willingness to operate these levers – that means in their working life, too. This is where the BBNE funding programme („Berufsbildung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung befördern. Über grüne Schlüsselkompetenzen zu klima- und ressourcenschonendem Handeln im Beruf“, EN: “Promoting career training for sustainable development. From green key skills to climate and resource saving action at work”) comes in.
Prognos assessed the funding programme that has been running since 2022 on behalf of the Federal Ministry, represented by the Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft gGmbH (ZUG). The goal was to derive action recommendations for policy and business, such as sustainable development training, and to firmly embed them in business and the working environment.
The funding programme comprised 14 projects in the first funding period (2015-2018) and 13 projects in the second round of funding (2019-2022) in two action fields: Services for extra-curricular career orientation and for trade comprehensive cooperation in construction and renovation in the context of the BBNE.
Here are the results of the evaluation:
In order to examine the targets achieved and impacts of the BBNE funding programme, we compared the assumed impact with empirical results in a theory-based approach.
Our methods:
Final report (PDF in German, BMUV website)
An overview of the evaluation (PDF in German, BMUV website)
Project team: Susanne Heinzelmann, Julian Lenz, Helga Orozco Klaß, Maria Villamayor i Villar
Latest update: 13.02.2024
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