Management skills for the changing textile and clothing sector : Europe's textile and clothing sector is likely to be hard hit by the liberalisation of the market scheduled for 2005. A more keenly competitive market place will require the sector to have first class strategic managers. UP-SKILLS lays the foundations for training the sector's managers by building up a comprehensive picture of the sector as it operates today in order to define the profiles of managers for tomorrow. The results of this far-reaching analysis will enable the providers of training to gear their programmes to the future needs of the sector's management, who have to steer their companies through its most challenging phase ever. This project started in 2000 and lasted 24 months.