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A new Erasmus+ project addressing innovative training in the Leather Goods industry was recently launched bringing together a European consortium led by the Portuguese SME Belcinto, and including Betangible (Spain), the European Footwear Confederation- CEC (Belgium), Centro Tecnológico do Calçado de Portugal, Fundación Centro Tecnológico de la Piel de Andalucía – MOVEX (Spain), Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi-TUIASI (Romania) and Globalnet (Poland).
The leather goods market currently employs more than 150,000 people in Europe and represents a high-end sector that is growing exponentially, is highly profitable and has an impact on the economy of various European countries. The sector is currently facing major challenges, namely the insufficient level of skilled workers due to rapid technological change, and the lack of attraction and retention of students and workers.
The so-called Learning Factories project aims to revolutionise the way training and qualifications work by proposing a new scheme of short-term training programmes for the leather goods industry, that respond faster to companies’ skills needs.
Read the full press release here!
The Learning Factories project is co-financed by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
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The European footwear industry is made up of diverse products and industrial processes. The European Commission works to promote the innovation and competitiveness of firms in the field and to combat counterfeiting, while protecting consumer health and the environment.
The footwear sector is a diverse industry covering a wide variety of materials, including textile, plastics, rubber, and leather, and products from different types of men’s, women’s, and children’s footwear to more specialised products like snowboard boots and protective footwear. In 2019, the footwear sector generated €26.4 billion in turnover, directly employing 24 000 people from 18 800 enterprises (Eurostat, 2023). This range of end products reflects the many industrial processes, enterprises, and market structures within the sector.
https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/footwear/united-states
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https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/footwear/united-states#revenue
The Council has today adopted the ecodesign regulation, which sets requirements for sustainable products. The regulation replaces the existing ecodesign directive and enlarges its scope, beyond energy products, to all kind of goods placed in the EU market. This is the last step in the decision-making procedure.
((With the ecodesign regulation we create the right incentives for the industry to think circular from the very design conception of the products they plan to produce and sell in the EU.
Pierre-Yves Dermagne, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Employment))
The regulation affects all kinds of products, with only a few exceptions (i.e. cars or defence and security related products). The new regulation introduces new requirements such as product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability, rules on the presence of substances that inhibit circularity; energy and resource efficiency; recycled content, remanufacturing and recycling; carbon and environmental footprints; and information requirements, including a Digital Product Passport. The Commission will be empowered to set ecodesign requirements by delegated acts and the industry will have 18 months to comply with them.
Ecodesign criteria will be applicable in public procurement to incentivise the public purchase of green products.
The new regulation introduces a direct-ban on the destruction of unsold textiles and footwear (SMEs will be temporarily excluded) and empowers the Commission to introduce similar bans for other products in the future. The ecodesign regulation will be aligned to the digital services act, when it comes to products sold online.