The wood sector in the cross-border area is in continuous decline due in part to the economic crisis experienced in recent years, which has been accentuated by the organizational and productive structure of its business fabric, based mainly on micro-enterprises and self-employed workers with little capacity for innovation and low levels of qualification, which has impeded their adaptation to the new demands of markets and society in general.
By contrast, we are currently at a key moment for wood and its sector, derived from a growing need to use environmentally friendly materials and low CO2 emissions, renewable and sustainable, which present an alternative to costly and highly polluting processes of treatment and production of materials such as concrete, steel, PVC, plastics, etc. It is therefore an opportunity but also a challenge because high levels of qualification and product and highly competitive innovative solutions are demanded.
It is therefore necessary to equip the wood sector with highly qualified technicians with the capacity to respond to the needs of society in general and, in short, to the needs of many micro-enterprises that need to be upgraded and even reinvent themselves by developing new products or improving existing ones. existing and implementing new marketing models.
The project creates the first cross-border network of training and employment agents in the wood sector whose purpose is to develop formulas that offer successful solutions that are non-existent to current problems, such as:
The wood sector is a sector strongly linked to the territory in the transboundary zone due to its forest wealth on both sides of the border. It is also a sector that carries potentialities in terms of cooperation, although it is usually dismissed because it denotes difficulties in overcoming existing barriers.
The presence of similar problems on both sides of the border and the continuous loss of synergies require joint cooperation efforts aimed at the development of integrating solutions that eliminate barriers and facilitate the competitive improvement of a sector with a capacity to generate employment.
The project aims to promote cooperation between actors involved in vocational training directly involving companies in the sector. The objective is not only to improve the competences and qualification levels of the different agents involved in the wood sector, taking advantage of and transferring the existing potentialities to both sides of the border, and improving or developing the necessary tools to cover those needs that lack solutions on both sides of the border. Finally, the aim is to generate equivalence systems between training programs and to develop instantaneous access systems to information on employment, legislation and innovation, which facilitates the mobility of workers and collaboration between companies on both sides of the border.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The general objective of the project is to strengthen the capacities of the wood sector and strengthen its entire value chain through cross-border cooperation and training of all its agents. The aims to achieve an inclusive and sustainable growth that guarantees greater territorial cohesion on both sides of the border, capable of responding to the evolution of the labor market and the structure of its productive fabric.
The specific objectives are:
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