Metaskills4TCLF

Initial situation & project description

The European textile, clothing, leather and footwear industry (TCLF) generated an annual turnover of €195 billion in 2019 and employed 2 million workers in 220,600 companies. Of these, 99% are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), located mainly in Italy, Romania, Poland, Portugal, Germany and Spain, with a focus on a few regions. Faced with the challenges of the digital age and the transition to a circular economy, the TCLF industry needs to address new requirements at a higher level to increase the resilience of the organizations involved.

The results include :

• A strong partnership of relevant interest groups with distinctive expertise.
• Skills Intelligence for Forecasting and Monitoring TCLF Emerging Skills Needs
• New modular training curricula/training modules “Inside Fashion” (both for initial education & training and upskilling-reskilling of the workforce), all tested in due piloting opportunities
• Innovative modular contents, VR training and learning tools and update the ones developed in the former blueprint
• A European Virtual Reality Campus
• A train the trainers and teacher package to strengthening skills supply to demand
• An awareness raising campaign on attractiveness and inclusion in the TCLF industries and correspondent tools