BUCHAREST (Romania), June 3 (SeeNews) – Romania aims to attract 2 billion euro ($2.14 billion) investment in the batteries sector in the next five years and is looking to have a trained workforce in order to facilitate this process, prime minister Nicolae Ciuca said.
“Our goal is to attract at least 2 billion euro in investment in the battery sector over the next five years […] We want to prepare workforce in the battery sector in order to attract investment more easily,” prime minister Ciuca said on Thursday, as quoted in a government press release, upon signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with climate and renewable energy technologies investor EIT InnoEnergy.
In order to overcome existing skills shortage in this area, the MoU outlines a commitment to create a new training and education network that will improve or retrain approximately 20,000 people in…