On 20 June 2025, the Chervonohrad Vocational Mining and Construction Lyceum hosted an event to mark International Wind Day. The event took place within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation signed in March 2025 between the Chervonohrad Vocational Mining and Construction Lyceum and UWEA, the aim of which is to popularise renewable energy, in particular wind energy, as well as to facilitate the training of specialists in this field.
The participants of the event discussed the prospects of the labour market amid the decentralisation and decarbonisation of Ukraine’s energy sector and emphasised the growing demand for new professions needed to ensure a sustainable energy transformation. Special attention was paid to adapting curricula to the needs of business and to modern technological challenges.
UWEA was represented at the event by Yurii Fedak, Deputy Director for Development of LLC “Eco-Optima”, and Taras Bereziuk, Director of Intertechservice Group – both companies are members of UWEA.
Among the participants were also representatives of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, the Lviv and Volyn Regional Military Administrations, the Ladyzhyn community (Vinnytsia region), the Sheptytskyi City Council, the Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy of Germany, GIZ, the Association of Coal Communities of Ukraine and the Institute of Power Engineering and Control Systems of the Lviv Polytechnic National University.
The Educational and Practical Centre for Renewable Energy, opened on the basis of the lyceum, was equipped with the support of the German Society for International Cooperation, GIZ Ukraine, within the framework of the coal-region transformation project. It is pleasing to note the genuine interest of the lyceum’s students in obtaining professions in the field of renewable energy, especially wind energy. Many of them regard this direction as the prospect of their professional future.
Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the UWEA Board:
“The transition from a centralised power system to a decentralised one, from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, requires a rethinking of approaches and target benchmarks for vocational education. Ukraine critically needs qualified specialists in the field of wind energy and other renewables technologies. I am confident that the partnership between UWEA and vocational education institutions will become an important factor in the accelerated development of wind energy – one of the key directions of the green and resilient reconstruction of Ukraine.”
