ECO4VET

The ECO4VET EU project presented its Pilot Course to exhibitors and visitors of the Salone del Mobile, the largest and most relevant Home Furniture Sector international fair.

The ECO4VET EU project presented its Pilot Course to exhibitors and visitors of the Salone del Mobile, the largest and most relevant Home Furniture Sector international fair.

The consortium considered the Salone as the perfect place for the project course dissemination due to the great attraction this fair has among furniture professionals. This fair greatly attracts two professionals profiles that are targeted by the course: General Managers and Designers. In 2015 edition, it attracted more than 2.000 exhibitors and 310.000 visitors.

In the Salone CENFIM staff distributed project leaflets among professionals and encouraged them to join the course. Furthermore, an ECO4VET information point was installed in one of the CENFIM associated companies where course aims and its potential benefits for companies were explained to interested visitors.

Course characteristics

The objective of this course is filling the furniture sector existing training needs related to environmental and sustainability issues. It will cover knowledge, skills and competences related to Ecodesign and Sustainable Production for furniture professional profiles such as General Managers, Production Managers and Designers. This course aims to improve their capacities to tackle with new and future green economy and market challenges and support furniture companies to improve their competitiveness in relation to growing environmental standards that markets are requiring.

The project consortium is finalizing the preparation of the course content. The Course Pilot Test is foreseen to start in June 2015 and it will approximately last three months. It will involve 50 people from different countries with different professional and academic backgrounds. Furniture Sector Professionals, students and unemployed people across Europe will have the possibility to join for free the on-line course. It will be available in 5 European languages: English, Spanish, Polish, Turkish and Romanian. There are 10 places available for each language and places will be allocated following a selection of applicants’ CVs and their order of application.

Participants will be monitored and surveyed to collect their feedback and suggestions allowing the consortium to improve the content and the course structure. Moreover, it will be possible to evaluate if  the project outputs meet or not the expectations of end-users.

How to apply

In order to apply to this course, please visit the project website www.eco4vet.com or go through the following link: http://www.eco4vet.com/index.php/courses/join-the-test-course. Applicants’ selection will be finalized in May 2015.