The HABITABLE project aims to respond to the challenges and needs of the Habitat sector in terms of skills shortage and mismatches derived from the digital and green transition, improving the responsiveness of the VET systems to these changes while promoting inclusion and equity in education. To this aim the project will co-create a Platform of Centres of Vocational Excellence for Sustainable Habitat, building a 'skills ecosystem' together with a wide range of other local and regional partners, working also with centres of professional excellence in other countries through networks of international collaboration. GENERAL OBJECTIVES:1.Lead the green and digital transition of the Habitat sector by developing a transnational cooperation platform of CoVEs and a Skills Strategy, aligned with the SDGs.2. Implement Skills Intelligence for the Habitat sector3. Boost quality, digital, green and inclusive Dual VET, WBL and apprenticeship4. Support the creation of business-education cooperation partnerships5. Provide labour market relevant skills including those necessary for the green and digital transitions6. Design innovative learner-centred teaching methods supported by digital tools and XR technologies7. Provide access to innovative curricula that focus both on technical skills and key competences8. Support upskill and reskill of adult learners and SME employees for the green and digital transition 9. Implement a system for certification of Micro-credentials 10. Support career guidance and promote social inclusion, equity, and equity in education11. Foster transnational mobility for VET educators and learners.12. Create new spaces for international cooperation and innovation13. Provide policy recommendations to implement regional and local strategies to raise upward convergence of CoVEs.14. Maximise the impact of the project, further use of its products and mainstreaming of its results.

In extension of the work of the Sustainable Energy Investment Forums, AÚNA proposes to create in Spain a permanent, multilevel, multilateral discussion FORUM, fully focused on sustainable building financing, for the effective and wide implementation of the Smart Finance for Smart Buildings initiative, with the following differential characteristics: • From the building renovation sector, with a systemic approach led by Green Building Council España (GBCe) • Based on GBCe’s knowledge in the field, from the GTR Reports to the national and international coordination of stakeholders’ collaborative processes of H2020 BUILD UPON projects, and the launching in Spain of the green mortgages initiative EeMap, which put GBCe in a unique position • Able to bridge the gap between renovation and financing, by the incorporation at a leading discussion level of the most advanced players on all the interrelated aspects of financing, facilitated by the present openness of the financial world • Oriented to a shared understanding, to draw significant advances in terms of ideas, to be incorporated by the stakeholders to their practices and policies • Integrally based on the financial and stakeholders platforms aspects of the Commission Recommendation on Building Renovation • Totally aligned with the Spanish Long Term Renovation Strategy, of which it becomes a key stream in continuation of the work already started, with full support from the Interministerial LTRS group of Spain (ERESEE) • Four rounds of growing practical definition and outreach, with clearly defined progress indicators: a) preparatory; discussion FORUM definition and planning, b) extension to the wide renovation sector, c) citizenship outreach and d) shared contribution to the Spanish NECP and the ERESEE 2023 • Liaising with the SEIF organization and other relevant European Commission’s initiatives (e.g. Energy Efficiency Financial Institutions Group (EEFIG), Project Development Assistance (PDA) facilities, the Covenant of Mayors/SECAP initiatives”), international dimension through the European Network of GBCs, the Smart Cities and Communities (Lighthouse) network, and other consortium member networks