Naturgy Foundation and the Germà Benito Menni Foundation launch a training programme to promote access to “green jobs”.

The general manager of the Naturgy Foundation, María Eugenia Coronado, and chairman of the Germà Benito Menni Foundation of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God, Salvador Maneu, have signed a collaboration agreement to promote training actions in the field of energy that favour employability and professional training among people in vulnerable situations.

This agreement will promote training and improve employability in the field of energy among the groups that the Germà Benito Menni Foundation work for so as to ensure universal access to “green jobs”.

Within the framework of the TándEM programme organised by the Spanish Public Employment Service (SEPE), during the first quarter of 2025 the Naturgy Foundation will offer training in “Energy consultancy in vulnerable environments” and “Efficient home renovation” to young participants in the GreenCompetences4All Programme of the Germà Benito Menni Foundation. This training aims to improve employability through training and work experience in the field of low-voltage electrical installations and solar panel installation.

When signing the collaboration agreement, María Eugenia Coronado stressed “the relevance of an agreement of this type with a prestigious organisation in the field of care for groups in vulnerable situations, which will allow us to bring together a diversity of talent, essential to achieve a fair energy transition that leaves no one behind”.

Chairman of the Germà Benito Menni Foundation, Salvador Maneu, highlighted “the contribution that this type of collaboration makes to the training itinerary of the young people who participate in the GreenCompetences4All programme. It improves students’ training, helps them to face future professional challenges and, in short, we create job opportunities so that young people can have a dignified and meaningful life”.

Vocational Training Programme for Employability

This new event is part of the Naturgy Foundation’s programme to promote training and improve employability in the energy sector. Its goal is to contribute to training future professionals in the sector so as to facilitate their access to the labour market, offering updated contents on innovation developed in the energy sector. Since its launch in 2018, the VT for Employability programme has impacted 147,072 people, including young people, teachers and professionals.

The courses provide training and certification in updated technical sector knowledge in the areas of sustainable mobility, rehabilitation and sustainable building, renewable gases, electricity grid digitalisation, energy advice in vulnerable environments, photovoltaic panel installation and maintenance, green and digital gas grids, wind farm maintenance and sustainability applied to the production system. This last event, developed on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sport, will be taught in all VT courses in Spain from the 2024-2025 academic year.

Alongside subject specialists, the Naturgy Foundation has also produced new educational resources designed for vocational training. This area includes the technical-practical textbooks “Vocational Education and Training in Energy, Vocational Training for Employability”, and their adaptation to the e-learning training courses produced together with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).

Naturgy Foundation’s Vocational Training proposal, for which it is a member of the Alliance for Vocational Training, is aligned with the Just Transition Strategy and has the recognition and collaboration of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, administrations responsible for education and employment of 9 autonomous communities, the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), the State Foundation for Employment Training (FUNDAE) and the National Institute of Qualifications (INCUAL).