Valencian Metal Employers Federation (FEMEVAL) is facing a crisis relating to redeployment of unemployed people and new companies from the metal sector towards emerging markets, especially renewable energy ones.

Metal companies and their workers (plumbers, electricians, etc.) represent a suitable sector to cope with the foreseen requirements of new markets in the field of renewable energy, especially in maintenance and installation works.

They aim to:

• Recycle unemployed people from the metal sector towards new careers especially those related to renewable energies.
• Promote non-offshorable business.
• Guide entrepreneurs into the renewable energy business helping them through the process of creation and consolidation of the company.
• Assist and advise successful local companies focused on renewable energy in their international opening process.

Activities:

• Develop a study of the degree of incidence of the economic crisis in the metal sector from the point of view of unemployment and loss of competitiveness.
• Define the future market energy trends.
• Establish a Training Plan aiming at the redeployment of the metal sector workers affected by the crisis.

Training will be structured in two aspects according to the education level of the audience:

• Installation and maintenance of renewable energy technologies or any other kind related to energy saving as domotics for instance.
• Consulting, energy solicitors, energy managing systems, etc.
• Create a consulting office opened to the metal sector companies to solve any question related to the energy business including internationalization process of local companies.

Keywords: Energy, Training, Renewable energy, Unemployed, IEE2

Contact: Raquel Aliaga - raliaga@femeval.es