Human Capital Agenda

The labor market as an opportunity for energy transition

The labor market is currently a major threat to the energy transition, which has everything to do with the enormous shortages. Sufficient availability of well-qualified people in the labor market is an important precondition for solving today's climate and energy issues, and therefore also an important theme within the Climate Agreement. At the same time, the same labor market also offers many opportunities, particularly by organizing it differently and, above all, more flexibly.

The Human Capital Agenda of Energy Innovation NL aims to contribute to solutions for quantitative and qualitative bottlenecks in the labor market. These bottlenecks have been translated into concrete guidelines for programs to help the sector anticipate innovations.

Agencing, driving and facilitating

he Human Capital Agenda of Energy Innovation NL is most eminently a networking concept. It works from an agenda-setting, driving and facilitating role with all relevant parties and other top sectors together:

• Agencing: We put labor market shortcomings on the national political agenda with the aim of commissioning research or exploration.
• Driving: Based on research results, we drive parties to follow this up. We show where the potential, the opportunities lie and motivate them to jump on this.
• Facilitating: We bring parties together, initiate in coalition building, make funding available, etc.; we make those resources accessible to achieve a concrete result.
  

The major challenge for Human Capital

How do we ensure that there are enough qualified employees to keep the energy transition going? To have the greatest possible impact, it is essential to make choices. An annual plan is a great guideline for this.

Working together

Investing in education and training is important for a well-educated workforce. The top sectors have their own position in the matter with their human capital agendas. They want continued investment in education and training in fields crucial to the Netherlands. Not separately, but together. This approach is laid down in the Roadmap Human Topsectoren 2020-2023, view the website here.