SkillBridge: COTANCE mentors TCLF sustainability
Euratex, CEC, and COTANCE have partnered to create the EU TCLF Pact for Skills aiming to address the shortage of skilled labour in the textile, clothing, leather, and footwear (TCLF) industry.
SkillBridge is a project that seeks to respond to the changing needs of the TCLF industry in terms of education and skills. It includes a mobility scheme for regional stakeholders and support for SMEs to develop reskilling or upskilling initiatives.
The project complements METASkills4TCLF and AEQUALIS4TCLF, which share the same objectives. Euratex Director General, Dirk Vantyghem, expressed gratitude to the European Commission for their support and encouraged regional authorities to collaborate on developing a skills strategy for the local TCLF industry.
TCLF is composed of the following “social partners”: trade union industriAll Europe, the European Confederation of the Footwear Industry (CEC), leather industry representative body the Confederation of National Association of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community (COTANCE) and Euratex, otherwise known as the European Apparel and Textile Confederation.
