📋 Tender Overview
The transition toward a more Circular Economy of the very relevant and growing EU Furniture sector requires companies to properly guide this process and its challenges. The sector lacks the occupational profile of the Circular Economy Transition Manager(CETM) and the related needed training.
CirCLER will deliver CETM new joint curricula(EQF4,5,6) filling in the gaps of current related green, digital, transversal skills, taking into account EU VET and HE policies and principles (ECTS, EQF, EQAVET). It will create an innovative training toolkit including several multimedia and interactive materials and tools, enabling EU VET providers and HEIS to train professionals to successfully lead this transition along the furniture sector whole value chain. It involves 23 sector stakeholders as full or associated partners with complementary expertise allowing achieving project objectives and results.
The work-based training toolkit will be available in 7 EU languages and target students and workers through customizable training paths adaptable to specific SKCs needs. It will be tested in a Pilot Course by 400 learners and validated by stakeholders and recognized within and outside the Alliance thanks to the signature of MoUs. CirCLER will also look into ESCO profiles affected by CETM new tasks.
Partners have a huge outreach in the sector and will design effective dissemination & exploitation plans to ensure strong results impact and sustainability. Within furniture sector, CirCLER will reach 130.000 among employees, unemployed, students, 30.000 companies, 100 associations, 2.000 VET/HEIs, 5.000 of their trainers/professors, 65 VET regulatory entities and other governmental bodies.
Overall, CirCLER will improve national and EU VET systems, support SKC needs detection and their provision satisfaction, together with key stakeholders involvement, it will make furniture sector more resilient and allow it to reach its proper circular transition.
