GreenSteelSkills – Skills for Green Steel

The steel industry faces the major challenge of making its production processes climate-friendly and switching to “green steel.” This requires considerable investment in new technologies. The focus is on hydrogen-based direct reduction or electric arc furnaces, which were recently launched by steel companies in Saarland. The new technologies in steel production are changing not only work processes and job profiles, but also entire occupational profiles. In order to meet the changing requirements, a large number of employees need training programs that can be integrated into everyday working life.

At the same time, training programs must be updated and expanded to ensure the future viability and attractiveness of this industry.

Against this backdrop, the GreenSteelSkills project will develop effective and forward-looking training and continuing education concepts and formats for a sustainable and future-proof steel industry. The iso Institute will analyze current and future forms of work and identify continuing education and skills requirements. This will enable the effects of the transformation on the work requirements of steel workers to be traced from an ergonomic perspective. As part of the project, an innovative, skills-based approach is to be developed and tested under the coordination of the August-Wilhelm-Scheer-Institut, with the aim of further training skilled workers for changed tasks and attracting and training new talent for the steel industry.

Mit GreenSteelSkills leistet das Konsortium einen entscheidenden Beitrag zur Fachkräftesicherung und zur erfolgreichen Transformation der Stahlindustrie in eine grüne Zukunft. Durch die enge Zusammenarbeit von Forschung, Bildung und Industrie werden innovative Bildungsangebote geschaffen, die sowohl regional als auch bundesweit wirken sollen.