Skills4Circularity partners meets in Izmir for second General Assembly

On 29-30 April, the Skills4Circularity consortium met in İzmir, Turkey for its second in-person General Assembly, hosted by Ege Üniversitesi. Textile ETP joined the meeting to advance key workstreams and align on the project's next phase.

Over two days of focused collaboration, consortium partners came together to translate the project's strategic vision into concrete action. The meeting centred on finalising the rollout of the Reactive Training Programs, from curriculum development to the issuance of micro-credentials that will validate new green and digital skills across the textile workforce.

Partners made significant progress in refining how these studies will feed into practical training tools and methodologies, ensuring that the outputs are grounded in real industry needs across the full textile value chain.

A significant portion of the meeting was dedicated to advancing the project's foresight studies. With the European textile sector undergoing rapid transformation, driven by digitalisation and the shift toward circular production models, the Skills4Circularity project is working to ensure that training frameworks anticipate future workforce needs.

Textile ETP's Sustainable Programme Manager, Tilla Kross, shared an update on how the ECOSYSTEX skills and education working group will contribute to the TCLF Skills Observatory currently being developed by partner CITEVE. This represents an important step toward systematically mapping the skills required for a circular textile sector.

For more information and updates on the Skills4Circularity project, please visit https://skills4circularity.eu/