Objective: To address the recruitment of young workers and define mid-term strategies for attracting, training and hiring them, providing them with the necessary opportunities to obtain quality jobs within the footwear industry.
Objective: To create, pilot, and certify a new qualification profile and corresponding ICT and work-based training to address the identified skills and competences gap in comfort and healthy footwear.
Objective: To promote youth employment in the footwear sector through the development of a curriculum adapted from the Danish "Production School" model, which is based on learning by practice.
Objective: To strengthen Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the footwear sector through the development of a new curriculum for shoemakers, focusing on the engineering and manufacturing process.
Objective: To maintain and strengthen the high-end and luxury footwear production across EU, promoting new generations of highly-skilled manufacturers thanks to the creation, development and pilot of an innovative and flexible ICT based training in footwear manufacturing.
Objective: To reduce the environmental impact derived from footwear manufacturing in terms of climate change. To develop and facilitate the use of a carbon footprint tool specific to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions produced in the manufacturing of each pair of shoes.
Objective: To create, design, develop and pilot a new occupation and qualification profile and correspondent training course, coping with the shortage of VET skills in the field of sustainable manufacturing.
Objective: To identify the current state-of-the-art of the footwear industry and national social dialogues systems and practices, in order to develop the best possible conditions for the renewal and adaptation of the footwear sectoral social dialogue at European level.
Objective: To bring together 5 European Technology Platforms (Textile & Clothing, sporting goods, footwear, wood & paper-based industries, machinery) from the consumer goods sectors with an objective of developing a joint research roadmap for these industries and related EU research, innovation & education policy recommendations.
Objective: To move the footwear sector from a product/process centred approach to a human-centred approach represented by 3 dimensions of human being: Comfort, Environment, Custom.