Learning & skills
First Hand targets ‘transformative green skills’ that equip us to navigate complexity, imagine alternatives and collaborate to transform systems.
Transformative green skills
Like collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking. They enable business resilience and innovation in the face of uncertainty.
Instrumental green skills
The kind of technical skills which deliver material change in many forms like transport, energy, construction or digital solutions.
Green skills in education and employment, UK Parliament POST, 18 January 2024, p.3
There’s a persistent tendency to see someone who is imaginative, communicative and collaborative as talented rather than skilled, or to dismiss these skills as ‘soft’. In fact these skills are critical to any kind of change and, most importantly, can be both learned and scaled.
Our climate action curriculum draws on leading skills frameworks: the European sustainability competence framework GreenComp, the essential skills universal framework Skills Builder and Edge Foundation signature practices of deeper learning: Project-Based Learning, Real World Learning and Community Connected Learning.
