BUSUnited

Project Reference Number LIFE24-CET-BUSUnited

Duration 36 months (September 2025 – September 2028)

TUS Project Budget €251,329

Total Project Budget €2,079,391

Type of Model Grant Agreement LIFE Action Grant Budget-Based

Summary

BUILD UP Skills United (BUSUnited) is a joint initiative within the LIFE Clean Energy Transition (CET) sub-programme. Its mission is to strengthen an EU-wide network of construction professionals by advancing sustainable energy skills through knowledge sharing, capacity-building activities, and cooperation across sectors.

Project Aims & Objectives

The BUILD UP Skills United (BUSUnited) project is a collaborative initiative under the LIFE Clean Energy Transition (CET) sub-programme aimed at fostering a thriving EU-wide community of practitioners to promote and develop sustainable energy skills among construction professionals. The project aligns with the LIFE-2024-CET-BUILDSKILLS call by addressing the critical need for upskilling and reskilling within the building sector to meet the EU’s ambitious climate and energy goals, particularly the targets set out in the European Green Deal and the 2050 carbon neutrality objective.

BUSUnited leverages the success of the BUILD UP Skills initiative, which began in 2011 and has funded over 90 projects across 32 countries, to create a robust community of practice (CoP). It seeks to integrate previous efforts and enhance the capacity of national and EU-level stakeholders through coordinated knowledge sharing, capacity building, and cross-sectoral collaboration.

The project plans to initiate, grow, and sustain a dynamic network of ten CoPs focused on critical areas such as sectoral skills needs, innovative training methods, skills recognition, demand-side mechanisms, national skills roll-out, funding sources, and EU synergies.

Key objectives of BUSUnited include establishing and supporting these CoPs to foster pan-European collaboration, drive innovation in training methods, and facilitate the large-scale deployment of sustainable energy skills.

The project aims to engage over 400 stakeholders, including public authorities, training providers, industry representatives, and NGOs, across its activities.

Additionally, BUSUnited will create several impactful outputs, such as guidelines, training tools, policy briefs, funding recommendations, and digital platforms to support the dissemination and uptake of best practices. By aligning with and going beyond existing EU frameworks, such as the Pact for Skills and the Renewable Energy Skills Partnership, BUSUnited will catalyse the deployment of effective upskilling strategies across Europe, contributing to the transformation of the construction sector and supporting the EU’s transition to a sustainable, climate-neutral future. 

Project Outputs

BUSUnited will deliver scalable, high-impact outputs, including: 

• 10 Thematic Communities of Practice as hubs for knowledge-sharing and collaboration. 

• Policy briefs and guidelines to support skills strategy development and implementation. 

• Innovative training tools and methods to modernize vocational systems across the EU. 

• Funding recommendations for sustainable skills programme financing. 

• Digital platforms to enable communication, community building, and knowledge exchange. 

• Best practice collections and replication strategies to support cross-border learning. 

Contact Details

Gloria Callinan

Project Support Officer

Email: gloria.callinan@tus.ie 

Project Partners

• Asociatia Cluster pentru Promovarea Cladirilor cu Consum de Energie Aproape Egal cu Zero Pro nZEB, Romania – https://www.pro-nzeb.ro 

• Dr. Jakob Energy Research GmbH & Co. KG, Germany – https://drjakobenergyresearch.de 

• Inovacijsko-razvojni Institut Univerze v Ljubljani, Slovenia – www.iri.uni-lj.si 

• Geonardo Kornyezetvedelmi Terinformatikai es Regionalis Projektfejleszto Kft., Hungary – https://www.geonardo.com 

• Stichting Centraal Register Techniek, The Netherlands – https://www.centraalregistertechniek.nl 

• Fondatsiya Tsentar za Energiyina Efektivnost – EnEfect, Bulgaria – http://www.eneffect.bg 

• Fundación Laboral de la Construcción, Spain – https://www.fundacionlaboral.org 

• Instituto Valenciano de la Edificación Fundación, Spain – https://www.five.es 

• International Iniziative for a Sustainable Built Environment Italia Research and Development SRL – Impresa Sociale, Italy – https://www.iisbe-rd.it 

• Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia – https://www.ukim.edu.mk 

• Green Building Council Italia, Italy – https://www.gbcitalia.org 

• Conseil des Architectes d’Europe, Belgium – https://www.ace-cae.eu 

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