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IN THE ROAD TO WOOD

Start date: Nov 30, 2016, End date: Nov 29, 2018,

Three VET High Schools are participating in the project: one from Madrid Region (Spain), and two from Denmark (located in Svendborg and Rodovre - Copenhagen). The three schools are developing Wood and Furniture learning and are interested in different professional aspects of this field. There are also three Danish companies involved in it.The planned activities are:A1: mobility for students learni ...
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NORTHERN WOOD SEEKING

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The educational offer in IES Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren is Secundary Education and Vocational Education and Training (professional family of wood and furniture). It is located in a socioeconomically hard area of the city of Fuenlabrada, which means that many of our students come from working families with few resources and very low levels of training. This reason also prevents them from participati ...
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Formaldehyde free Bio-Based thermosetting resin for wood pressed products (ECOPRESSWOOD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"Pressed wood panels are composed of chopped or cut wood that are glued together using adhesives. Most of these resins are petroleum based products containing a hazardous chemical: formaldehyde. The acceptable levels of formaldehyde in wood pressed products have been reduced over the past decades due to increased public awareness on its effects on health and the consequent consumer demand for non- ...
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A WOOD WAY TO EUROPE

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

In this project are involved three Thecnical Vocation Institutes (Two from Madrid and one from Svendborg, Denmark), that belong to the Professional Family of Wood and Furniture, interested in aspects of the profession. There are also 5 Danish companies from the sector involved in. The activities planned are: A1: Students mobility with the aim of doing their Practical Vocational training in a Dani ...
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Bridging Gaps Between R2I in Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (RERAM)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,

"RERAM responds to the societal challenge of ‘CLIMATE CHANGE, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND RAW MATERIALS’ in Europe’s forestry and woodworking sector. Knowledge, communication and cooperation gaps between research communities and innovation-driven industries significantly hamper progress towards sustainable use of the natural resource FOREST in the woodworking sector. The RERAM project targets the very ...
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ECOMOVEL (ecomovel)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 30, 2013,

The furniture industry is undergoing restructuring. The importance of cooperation throughout the manufacturing cycle is essential, to act on costs and increase added value. Our goal is to work in eco-designed products development in the furniture industry, in high added value products and in development of new technologies in eco-design, taking into account two essential aspects: Design and Ecolo ...
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Value Added Wood - fostering a dynamic competence area (VAW)

Start date: Jun 30, 2004, End date: Jun 29, 2006,

The operation VAW- Value Added Wood - Fostering a Dynamic Competence Area joins eight European wood clusters in developing new ideas and policies to stimulate the sector. Participating clusters have specific competences and strategies but also face a range of common challenges, including low export rates and a high pressure on prices, limited innovation management skills and a low value added in p ...
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Improvement of Vocational Education and Training related to Ecodesign and Sustainable Production in the Furniture Sector

Start date: Dec 1, 2013,

In recent years, factors such as restrictions in environmental legislation, the release of standard guidelines for incorporating ecodesign, and specially the appearance of emerging markets very demanding with the product sustainability, have created new needs for furniture manufacturers. The lack of an official curriculum on ecodesign and sustainable production directly affects the traditional man ...
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Development of a training path for European Furniture Experts in Designing and Manufacturing of AAL Integrated Furniture for the Care and Support of Elderly and Disabled People.

Start date: Oct 1, 2013,

The fast-growing elderly population in Europe and its care needs require solutions like AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) to ensure economical sustainability. AAL is emerging as a set of tools for care of the elderly and disabled capable of improving their quality of life. Furniture has certain features that can improve the non-intrusive monitoring of users and interaction of AAL systems, which repres ...
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Increase Vocational Skills to Face Earthquake Risk Inside of Buildings

Start date: Nov 1, 2011,

The furniture industry is one of the largest manufacturing industries of Europe. The sector needs to have an innovative point in design approach to compete with continuously growing Asian market. The VET programmes have to be improved in parallel with the sector. Currently, VET providers have education programs which are absolutely not covering the sectorial innovation needs and focus on technica ...
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Intelligent Furniture - training for Design, environment and new materials in SME's

Start date: Nov 1, 2009,

The main goals of the project are:- A. INCREASE FURNITURE SECTOR SME’S COMPETITIVENESS BY CREATION OF EFFICIENT STRATEGIES, PROCESSES AND CONTENTS FOR LIFE-LONG-LEARNING - B. CREATION OF INNOVATIVE TOOLS AND FORUMS FOR LOCAL AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKINGIn order to face the crisis of the furniture market, SME’s in the furniture sector need to focalize their products on specific markets and innovati ...
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VET&WORK - Experimentation of school and work alternation paths for teaching development and for effective professional integration in the wood furniture sector

1. A research on former students about outcomes and methods to get a job was carried out by school institution partners. 2. A survey on companies of wood-furniture sector was implemented in order to identify specific needs about skills and apprenticeship (school-work alternation).On the basis of the 2 research outcomes, several instruments and suitable methods to satisfy the specific and emergen ...
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WOODVALUE - Conservation and Restauration of Wooden Furniture and Sacred Art

Safeguarding of Europe's wooden artefacts : The project will produce technicians qualified in the conservation of ancient wooden artefacts. This will fill a gap in the labour market as well as ensuring the preservation of historical treasures. This project started in 2002 and lasted 24 months.
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Bolster up II - Transparency for Upholstering and Cabinet Making Qualifications and Quality in the European Furniture Industry

The project is concerned with the development of European competence profiles for the wood and furniture industry. We have developed profiles for the professions of upholsterer and cabinet maker, which together make up about 50% of skilled workers of this sector. The European core profiles for the upholsterer and the cabinet maker will are formulated in a way that fits with the requirements of EQF ...
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Transfer of innovative practices in the Vocational Education & Training to Slovenian Wood Sector. Acronym: KnowFOwood2

The main aim is to transfer innovative VET solutions from Europe to Slovenian Wood Sector to set up advanced VET System and new validated and state recognized VET Program.
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WOODPORT -Recognition of competences in vocational education and training in formal, non-formal, informal context in wood and furniture sector.

Starting point: the need of a European assessment system and an updated European competence portfolio.End point: standardization of vocational education and training functional to wood and furniture companies in all Europe, since increasingly mobility is required by labour market. Starting from school years can mean:- give European students the same competences at the end of an educational course ...
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