Leathergoods teachers attend Learning Factories summer workshops
Summer workshops took place in Portugal and Spain in July to help trainers, tutors, and teachers across Europe in their work to pass on leathergoods knowledge and skills to new generations of workers.
The two boot-camps took place as part of a project called Learning Factories. The project launched in 2023 and will run until October 2025. Its main objective has been to upgrade the training process in the leathergoods sector in Europe and, through this, to help manufacturers attract and retain workers while giving them the skills required to support a “green and digital transformation” of the sector and increase its competitiveness.
Small and medium-sized manufacturing companies have taken part, as have public- and private-sector providers of vocational education training in different parts of Europe. The initiative has had the backing of the European Footwear Federation (CEC) and Portuguese industry body CTCP. It has been co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
The summer boot-camps took place in Sa~o Joa~o da Madeira, near Porto, and in Ubrique in southern Spain. There were workshops, company visits and “co-creation sessions”. Teachers and trainers in leathergoods from Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Romania and Poland took part.
Image shows participants at the Sa~o Joa~o da Madeira event.
Credit: CEC.
