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North Macedonia and six EU members implement a project for new knowledge in the green and digital transition

by AI | 27.Mar 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Within the framework of the project, by the end of the year, a Training Center for employees in companies, pupils, and students will be opened, which should provide an impetus for the construction of safer structures in both the public and private sectors.

Panel in Strumica for the promotion of the project for knowledge in the green and digital transition "SEBCoVE-Smart Electricity for Buildings". Photo: MIA

Strumica – North Macedonia, together with Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and Greece, is working on a three-year project to gain knowledge in the green and digital transition “SEBCoVE-Smart Electricity for Buildings”, funded by the European Commission with a total budget of 3.7 million euros.

According to the director of the Center for Development of the Southeast Region, Gjoko Kamcev, the project includes 19 partners, 16 of which are from EU member states, and three from the country.

– This project aims to give us a direction within the framework of energy efficiency and smart electricity for buildings. By the end of the year, the project will open a Training Center, or rather a Center for Vocational Excellence, located within the Southeast Planning Region, where training will be conducted for companies, students, and students, and experts will be engaged to provide incentives on how the buildings, in both the public and private sectors, can be built and be safer, Kamcev said during the panel presentation in Strumica, attended by partner organizations of the SEBCoVE project – the Center for Development of the Southeast Planning Region, the Union of Chambers of Commerce of Macedonia, and Emkice KIC, as well as mayors and businessmen from the region.

For Ilija Vuchkov, director of Emkice KIC, it is good that the project includes partners from three sectors – public, private, and academic.

– The project helps to increase knowledge and skills for the new technologies that are already on the market. For us, it is very significant that the academic community is also included in the training center in the Southeast Planning Region for the education and certification of young people for their future employment. This way, they are staff who can find employment anywhere, but we want them to stay here, said Vuchkov.

Tripartite cooperation of the academic, public, and private sectors is a conceptual framework that represents the interaction and integration of three key components: education, research, and innovation. This model emphasizes the interconnection and mutual strengthening of these elements to stimulate economic growth, social progress, and the creation of a knowledge-based economy. (March 27, 2025)