FAQ - Your guide to the Lusatia Qualification Network

The QLEE(Qualification Networkin Lusatiafor Renewable Energies) is a BMWK-funded project that offers companies and employees in the lignite mining region of Lusatia new economic prospects through competent qualification programmes in new technologies. It supports structural change in the region and contributes to the development of skilled labour.

The QLEE is supported by three main partners:

LEAG (Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG): they have been organising further training courses in Lusatia since 1995 and offer a wide range of courses in the company's own qualification and conference hotel in the idyllic Spreewald.

IBBF (Institute for Vocational Training Research): As research experts in the field of continuing vocational training, they develop qualification programmes and identify the changing needs of the regional economy in times of structural change.

BEE (Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie e.V.): As an umbrella organisation, BEE pools the technical expertise of over 5,000 companies from Germany in the field of renewable energies.

The QLEE offers further training in all aspects of renewable energies, including electricity and heat generation, transmission and storage of energy and much more.

Lusatian companies can apply for membership of the qualification network.

Membership is free of charge for Lusatian companies thanks to STARK funding.

Thanks to the funding, participation in the qualification programmes is free of charge for association members.

The STARK programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) supports projects that promote the transformation process towards an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable economic structure in coal regions. The abbreviation STARK stands for Strengthening the Transformation Dynamics and New Beginnings in the coal-mining regions and at coal-fired power plant sites. The aim of the funding programme is to support structural change in Lusatia and to open up new economic opportunities for companies by providing needs-based and target group-oriented training and further education for their employees.

Areas of support include networking, counselling, qualification, sustainable adaptation of public services and innovative approaches.

Membership of the Lusatia Qualification Network for Renewable Energies offers numerous advantages. With more participants per training course, the fixed costs are reduced and distributed within the association. There are no travelling and accommodation costs. We develop training courses and programmes together. You also benefit from STARK funding for the qualification of your staff. Members have the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with other experts and companies in the field of renewable energies. As a member, you have access to demand-orientated further training programmes in the field of renewable energies and receive up-to-date information on industry trends, new technologies and legal changes.

The aims of the pilot project are

- Establishment of a qualification network with companies from the region
- Survey of qualification needs
- Development and testing of qualification programmes
- Realisation of qualification offers
- Establishment of a web portal for networking the stakeholders, for the provision and utilisation of digitally supported qualification offers and for the transfer of knowledge and results as well as for collaborative cooperation
- Transfer of project results to other regions
- Showcase for best practices with European and international appeal in structural change regions.