The Cluster Sofia Knowledge City (the cluster) as an organization to promote the development of cities as “knowledge cities” adopts the concept of green and circular economy as the basis for the development of such cities. Therefore, the cluster often participates in international projects related to the topic of knowledge and skills for a sustainable and green economy, which we believe should be the basis of the urban development.

The Go Green project (https://gogreenvet.eu/), in which the cluster participates, is focused on the issue of green competences and the possibilities for these competences to be transferred from trainers to trainees and from workers to apprentices.

The fight with climate change is and will continue to be one of the main priorities for the EU in the coming years.Regardless of the criticism that EU is too focused on the green deal and the undertaken measures are too anticipatory, compared to the rest of the world, this priority will always remain a keystone of the European policy. However, what is more important is how and to what extent business perceives the goals of sustainable development as own.

It is clear to us that whatever the level of corporate social responsibility of a business is, its behavior will always be dominated by the pursuit of profit.

It is time to share some results from the implementation of the Digiskill - Retail Project, in which the Sofia City of Knowledge Cluster participates together with organizations from the EU. The lead partner in this project is the Central Office for Vocational Training in Retail eV. The project started in September 2022 and will end in August 2024. It aims to develop a toolkit to address the challenges of digital transformation in retail.

In particular, specific study units and e-learning modules are under development to be used to improve the digital competencies and skills of retail trainees and their trainers (digicompEDU).