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The welding sector (which is transversal to the metalworking sector, oil & gas, construction, industry, automobile, telecommunications, etc) is facing a serious lack of qualified and certified welders. The demand of qualified welders is higher than the supply and it has been estimated that this year (2010) the shortage of welders will be in the range of 200 000 (The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 15 20 ...

Since the EU agreed to raise the EU's share of renewable energies to 20% by 2020, there appear especially new challenges for branches like the solar-sector. But here, the skills development is still national in scope and unaligned to the European market. This poses barriers to achieving the European Union's targets and the objectives of the LLL-program to bolster cross-border mobility of solar wor ...