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Prescribed · layer 01 · WP6

What Europe says workers need

The frameworks, made computable

The EU’s competence frameworks are built by expert consensus. Greenpulse treats them as what they are, strictly: hypotheses about competence.

Planned work, not a funded project

The prescribed layer

The frameworks, made computable

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Prescribed · What Europe says workers need

The frameworks, made computable

Instrument
ESCO-mapped EU and national policy corpus; O*NET green-task baseline transposed through the EC×USDOL ESCO–O*NET crosswalk
Produced in
WP6 Task 6.2, with WP2
Deliverables
D6.1
Used next by
Gap computation (Task 8.4); Observatory (Task 8.1)
Answers
RQ1, RQ2

The EU's competence frameworks are built by expert consensus: GreenComp drew on about 75 experts. They have never been tested against evidence from the places where competence is formed. Greenpulse treats them as what they are, strictly: hypotheses about competence.

The prescribed layer turns them into an expected profile for each fieldwork territory. An ESCO-mapped corpus of EU and national green-transition policy is anchored on ESCO's green concept scheme (dataset v1.2.1, 629 released concepts, against 571 in 2022), queried against a version-pinned local instance. An occupation-level green-task baseline is computed on the archived O*NET designations and transposed to EU-LFS occupational structures through the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk.

Machine tagging uses the open-source ESCOX extractor from the CL2 project SKILLAB, reused rather than rebuilt. It is accepted only above a pre-set F1 ≥ 0.70, with precision and recall reported in D6.1; no machine-tagged material enters the Observatory before that gate (MS4, month 19).

HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-TRANSFO-07 · Part B §1.1.9 · §2.1

Call coverage

How the proposal answers the topic: its three expected outcomes, the two synergies the topic names, and the ten research questions, each with the specific objective that carries it and the place in the work plan where it is answered.

Greenpulse is a proposal to Horizon Europe topic HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-TRANSFO-07, submitted successfully and under evaluation; it describes planned work, not a funded project.

Expected outcomes → key exploitable results

Part B §2.1 follows one pathway per expected outcome of the topic, plus one pathway that runs across all three.

Expected outcome 1

Improved understanding of the competences needed for the green transition

How the proposal answers

  • Meso Competence Observatory (KER1), organised with a skill-formation-regime layer so that findings transfer by regime type and not only by country
  • Meso Competence Survey datasets (KER3)
  • Meso–macro gap analysis (D8.2): the prescribed/lived distance measured against the ESCO-mapped and O*NET-based baselines
  • Built on the NECx corpus: 54 Sharing Circles (~350 participants) and ~130–145 biographic-narrative interviews at 18 sites in six countries

Where it is answered

Observatory v1 at M32 and final two-round release at M46; six country meso dossiers; one consolidated taxonomy as linked open data

Expected outcome 2

Actionable advice for education-and-training programmes, in a lifelong perspective, with attention to gender and disability

How the proposal answers

  • Programme guidance (xGuidance) and policy Roadmap (xRoadmap): the two separable products of KER4
  • Green Transition Academy model and xEET replication kit (KER6), moving from pilot to replication
  • Youth Orientation Module (YOM, D5.2, ZOCG), with a NEET pathway and intervention-age indicators
  • xEET formats (SMP, GRBC, Expo-Action, the Academies) with pre/post GreenComp-mapped assessment of the competence gains each produces
  • Curriculum response interval, measured in both rounds and published as a protocol any region can re-run (KER7)

Where it is answered

Six country vocational-system briefs at M9 (D2.3); YOM at M28 (D5.2); Academy model and replication kit at M36 (D5.1), with measured gains reported at M40 (D5.8); the xRoadmap, xGuidance and xProPol at M44 (D9.3)

Expected outcome 3

Guidance on the green–digital interconnection

How the proposal answers

  • Digital–Green Competence Matrix (DG-CoM, KER5) with its ontological-literacy learning outcomes
  • Pre-registered cross-sector homogenisation test with its linguistic condition, reported whichever way it falls (§1.2.6)
  • Energy-sector AI-literacy specification (D8.8, KER10), answering the AI-literacy duty of Article 4 of the AI Act at the level of an occupation, a sector and a workplace

Where it is answered

The specification will be drafted for standardisation and submitted to the European Standardisation Booster; framework feedback through D9.1, classification feedback through D9.2

Cross-outcome pathway

Feedback into the EU skills infrastructure

How the proposal answers

  • Corpus-attested multilingual alternative labels and field-emerging competence concepts, to be submitted as documented change requests through ESCO's continuous-improvement process and its Member State Working Group routes
  • The first external validation of ESCO's green labelling layer (the WP6 validation sub-study, D6.1)
  • The GreenComp × ESCO × O*NET concordance, delivered as linked open data and to be submitted for listing among ESCO's published crosswalks
  • All commitments are phrased as submission and proposal: adoption remains the Commission's decision

Synergies and clustering

The topic names two synergies; Part B treats both as structural. Clustering, which the topic strongly encourages, is committed.

Synergy named by the topic

New European Bauhaus Facility, notably the NEB Academy

How the proposal answers

  • CNAM and QUIZAS lodge the exhibition design protocol and the xEET replication kit with the NEB Academy on release, and offer the Expo-Action at CNAM's Musée des Arts et Métiers as a competence-side satellite of its ecosystem
  • Both are presented at the first NEB Festival after M36

Where it is answered

WP5, task 5.4 (D5.1 at M36, D5.4 at M44); committed under task 10.1

Synergy named by the topic

Social Transformations and Resilience (STR) Partnership

How the proposal answers

  • UW is the contact point; the consortium answers the partnership's stakeholder consultations on education, work and fair transition from year 1 and invites its secretariat to the SMP conference (M24)
  • The Observatory v1 (D8.1, M32) and the MCS instruments are offered as open test beds for its joint calls

Where it is answered

WP10, task 10.1; written into D1.2 (M6) and reported in D10.2 (M48)

Strongly encouraged by the topic

Clustering with related projects

How the proposal answers

  • The concurrent TRANSFO-02 cohort, PACT (101290596), HIT (101286352) and MOSAIC (101288555), which shares no beneficiary with this consortium: joint briefs, data reuse and cross-advisory contacts
  • Greenpulse joins the existing BOLSTER Just Transition Cluster
  • SkillsPULSE (101132727), the nearest concurrent project, with a documented demarcation: SkillsPULSE measures the extent and distribution of mismatch across the labour market; Greenpulse explains why mismatch reproduces where it does, in one sector at the meso level
  • ESCOX from SKILLAB (GA 101132663) is reused rather than rebuilt, which is also the project's non-duplication statement; the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk is reused
  • BRIDGES 5.0 (GA 101069651) provides both a track record, since CNAM is a beneficiary, and reusable data

Where it is answered

WP10, task 10.1 (CNAM with UW, QUIZAS); §1.2.9 and §2.1

Research questions → specific objectives

The work programme lists ten research questions. Part B §1.1.9 restates each with the specific objective that carries it and the place in the work plan where it is answered.

RQ1 → SO1

Most relevant competences

How the proposal answers

  • WP2–WP3 evidence assembled in the Meso Competence Observatory (KER1)

RQ2 → SO2

Assessment methods and frameworks

How the proposal answers

  • The Meso Competence Survey and its gap metric (KER3)
  • Held to the demarcation criterion of task 2.2 and gated in task 8.3
  • The ESCOX validation sub-study, reporting precision, recall and F1 (D6.1)

RQ3 → SO3

Digital skills, technological literacy and green–digital synergies

How the proposal answers

  • The Digital–Green Competence Matrix and its pre-registered homogenisation test (KER5, §1.2.6)

RQ4 → SO4

Collaboration on skills shortages

How the proposal answers

  • The Science-Meets-Politics (SMP) conference (task 9.1)
  • The policy Roadmap, xRoadmap (KER4)

RQ5 → SO4 through WP2 and WP4

Accessible, flexible VET

How the proposal answers

  • The curriculum response interval, measured at the 12 Round 1 dyads and re-measured in Round 2
  • Tests whether accessibility and flexibility are the same property, through the skill-formation regime filter

Where it is answered

Tasks 4.3 and 8.2; reported in D4.5, D7.1 and D8.5 (KER7)

RQ6 → SO5

Equal benefit for women and persons with disabilities

How the proposal answers

  • The Competence Equity Monitor (KER2)
  • Gender as a research variable: gender-reviewed instruments; sex-disaggregated collection, analysis and reporting throughout; OCTAB registers analysed by gender within the same meso setting
  • The Gender Reversed Bootcamp (GRBC) module, a published and field-tested method, with experiential constraints translated from the project's own sex-disaggregated findings (task 5.3)
  • Disability: accessible instruments by design (accessible survey deployment, easy-language versions, interview accommodations), site-level disability-inclusion indicators, and the occupational-health and access-gradient route held by RSU, occupational health entering as a mechanism rather than a lens
  • The Expo-Action's non-text-based immersive formats piloted as accessibility instruments

Where it is answered

Inclusion methods of §1.2.7; task 5.3

RQ7 → SO1

Lifelong acquisition

How the proposal answers

  • The HACx longitudinal strand (§1.2.5)
  • The pre/post GreenComp-mapped assessment carried by every xEET format

Where it is answered

WP2, WP4 and WP5

RQ8 → SO5

Inclusive career advice

How the proposal answers

  • The Youth Orientation Module (YOM, D5.2) held by ZOCG (§1.2.7)
  • The programme guidance product (task 9.3)
  • The Expo-Action doubles as an instrumented guidance encounter

RQ9 → SO5

Disadvantaged children, NEETs, age of intervention

How the proposal answers

  • The Youth Orientation Module (YOM, D5.2), with intervention-age indicators for disadvantaged young people including NEETs
  • The Green Transition Academies replication network (task 5.1)

RQ10 → SO4

Industry collaboration, barriers for disadvantaged backgrounds

How the proposal answers

  • The policymaker–industry training protocols (xProPol)
  • The social-partner and VET-authority advisory route (task 9.4)

The full map of related EU projects is on the clustering page.

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