23 February 2024
Milan, 23 February 2024 – Partners of the EU funded CirCLER project - Circular Economy Transition Manager: guiding companies of the furniture value chain to deploy their transition strategy for a more circular economy - met on the 21st and 22nd of February in Milan for the official kick-off of the project, hosted by FederLegno Arredo (FLA).
The CirCLER project led by AMBIT has officially started. The project has been recently funded under the call Erasmus+, ERASMUS-EDU-2023-PI-ALL-INNO, and will run for three years.
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.
The Kick-off meeting was an occasion to discuss more in detail the timeline and workplan of the project, as well as the tasks and activities foreseen in each Work Package.
