The European footwear sector continues growing steadily, being responsible for the 4% of the worldwide footwear production, employing more than 260.000 people distributed by approximately 25.000 companies, mainly SMEs, adopting a development strategy based on higher quality of products and services, flexibility and short time to market, product differentiation and added value. Consumption will continue its growth pattern thanks to the increase of population, longer life expectancy and consistent improvements in earning power. According to the United Nations’ World Population Prospects Report, people over 60 (the population of which is increasing by 2.6% per year), comprise one of the world’s fastest-growing consumer demographics, resulting in new consumer demands in relation to comfort and healthy footwear. As stated in the 2014 Report of the European Textile, Clothing, Leather, Footwear Sector Skills Council, longer life expectancy represents an enormous opportunity of growth for the European Footwear Industry which should be embraced by SMEs and large enterprises. Comfortable and healthy footwear is multifaceted, involving footwear design and engineering, manufacturing techniques, biomechanics, medical/therapeutic knowledge, etc. The need for a professional profile in the comfort and healthy footwear and correspondent training is recognized by the footwear stakeholders including ESCO experts (European Skills Competences project), to be covered by NACE classification standard. This sector skills alliance, constituted by entities related to Footwear and E&T system decided to assign the challenge of creating, piloting and certifying a new qualification profile and correspondent ICT and work base training, to address the identified skills/competences gap in the market of comfort and healthy footwear. Impacts will be visible in competitiveness, entrepreneurship, employability and higher level of qualifications in the sector. The final product will be available in four languages plus English.