CirCLER - Circular Economy Transition Manager

Project reference: 101140033

Start date: 01.02.2024

End date: 31.01.2027

Program: Erasmus+

Key action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices 

Action types: Alliances for education and enterprises  

Coordinator: AMBIT, Spain

Consortium includes 15 partners from 7 European counrties:  Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine 

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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 Circular Economy Transition Manager (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.

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.

 

In 2024, an important document "Towards the Circular Econo
CirCLER – Circular Economy Transition Manager: guiding companies of the furniture value chain to deploy their transition strategy for a more circular economy
Partners of the CirCLER project gathered in Brussels on November 12th and 13th, 2024, at EFIC’s premises to advance their efforts in creating training resources tailored to the circular
CirCLER – Circular Economy Transition Manager: guiding companies of the furniture value chain to deploy their transition strategy for a more circular economy
In 2023, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) published the Preliminary Study on New Product Priorities, assessing sectors such as furniture under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR
CirCLER: Identification and ranking of the key skills and competencies required for managers of companies involved in the furniture production chain in their transition to a circular
In order to reduce the employment mismatch and support the sustainability of labor markets undergoing significant demographic transformations and energy and digital transitions, the European policy
In May, partners implemented the CirCLER questionnaire to identify and validate the competencies required for a highly demanded new role in the furniture sector: the Circular Economy Transition Man
On June 20, 2024, the CirCLER project partners convened online for their second meeting.
Download the CirCLER leaflet in English and Ukrainian here.