D 2024

Green Skills as an Opportunity to Reassess the Slovak Education System

MICHALÍKOVÁ, Martina; Natália HORŇÁKOVÁ; Dagmar CAGÁŇOVÁ and František Mark MOLNÁR

Basic information

Original name

Green Skills as an Opportunity to Reassess the Slovak Education System

Authors

MICHALÍKOVÁ, Martina; Natália HORŇÁKOVÁ; Dagmar CAGÁŇOVÁ and František Mark MOLNÁR

Edition

1. vyd. Smart Cities: Importance of Management and Innovations for Sustainable Development, p. 311-331, 457 pp. 2024

Other information

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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No

Organization unit

NEWTON University

ISBN

978-3-031-56532-8

Keywords in English

Green skills; Green economy; Green jobs; Slovak Republic

Tags

International impact
Changed: 9/6/2026 22:27, prof. Mgr. Dagmar Cagáňová, PhD.

Abstract

In the original language

This chapter deals with issue of green skills and importance of their development in the context of the shift toward green economy. The importance of the skills development is not only related to the need of solving global climate crisis or to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) but also with the education and training of the workforce on the labor market, for the future occupations that will require set of a new skills and competencies. The aim of this chapter is to analyze the current state of art generally and in the Slovak Republic (SR) and subsequently propose the recommendation for the development of green skills, also in connection with other types of skills and point out the necessity of relevant changes, both at the level of policies and the educational system. Importance of the green skills development is closely connected with digital skills, to which is not given the attention in presented chapter due to the scope of the chapter’s focus and its extensive issue.