
ETF Green Skills Award
Celebrating success stories: the role of skills in achieving the green transition
The Green Skills Award is a global initiative that was first introduced in 2021. Each year it celebrates outstanding ideas and inspiration from all over the world about innovation happening thanks to individuals and institutions. This initiative has become a source of good practices that can inspire people everywhere to make real change happen in creating circular and carbon-neutral economies and societies, and to contribute to sustainable development.
The Green Skills Award 2025 edition was launched on 3 February 2025 - learn more here.
Green Skills Award previous editions
Year after year, the growing number of finalists from various countries highlights the global reach and impact of the Green Skills Award, as well as the importance of collaborative efforts in achieving a more sustainable future.
2024 winners
- Latvia: The Hemp School
- Türkiye: Always New
- Madagascar: The Green Clubs
2023 winners
- Lebanon: Zero waste project
- Morocco (with Spain): Bouregreg Med-O-Med Gardening School by FUNCI
- Kenya: E-waste management
2022 winners
- Croatia (with Armenia and Türkiye): The Green Changemakers
- Nigeria: Operation Skill Them Up
- Kenya: Don Bosco Tech Africa
2021 winners
- Palestine: Ghada Krayem, Gaza Training Centre
- Türkiye: Selcuk Arslan, Ataturk Vocational and Technical High School
- India: PSS Central Institute of Vocational Education
All finalists per country
- Albania: City of my Dreams
- Albania: Shipmentt
- Armenia: TUMO Labs
- Azerbaijan: Inkoel
- Belarus: Volma
- Belgium (with France): Label Emmaüs
- Croatia (with Armenia and Türkiye): The Green Changemakers
- Cyprus: Yenesis project
- Georgia: Agriculture education in school
- Georgia: Sustainable Development Academy K4S
- Georgia: Construct2;
- India: PSS Central Institute of Vocational Education
- Indonesia: Carbon Addons
- Indonesia: Schneider Electric Foundation
- Ireland: Fifty Shades Greener
- Ireland: SOLAS
- Italy: Atelier Riforma
- Jordan: Creating Green Land
- Kazakhstan: Aupet
- Kenya: Don Bosco Tech Africa
- Kenya: E-waste management
- Lebanon: Zero Waste project
- Malaysia: Green Putrajaya
- Moldova: Training the Green Trainers
- Morocco with Spain: Bouregreg Med-O-Med Gardening School by FUNCI
- Netherlands: 21CC Education with Carbon Masters
- Netherlands: Blue Hotspot Dordrecht
- Netherlands (with Czechia, Denmark, Finland, Romania, and Spain): European Platform Urban Greening
- Nigeria: Operation Skill Them Up
- Palestine: Ghada Krayem, Gaza Training Centre
- Serbia: The Green Art Incubator
- Türkiye: Selcuk Arslan, Ataturk Vocational and Technical High School
- Türkiye: The Distance Learning Gate
- Ukraine: Emau
- Ukraine: Professional Qualifications in Energy Efficiency Project
- Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko National University
- USA with Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zimbabwe: WeCareSolar.
Green Skills Award 2024 videos
Green Skills Award 2023 videos
Green Skills Award 2022 videos
Green Skills Award 2021 videos