The GPP - Furniture project faces its final stages in Zaragoza

Submitted by Juan José Ortega on 31 October 2018

The fifth consortium meeting of GPP-Furniture project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme, was held on 10-11.07.2018 in Zaragoza, Spain. The host of the meeting was the Law School of the University of Zaragoza. The aim of the project is the design and development of an e-learning training course for filling gaps in the manufacture and design furniture skills in relation with Green Public Procurement for current and future managers and workers in the furniture industry and habitat sectors. With a duration of 50 hours, GPP-Furniture training course is divided into three interrelated modules. The first one will be an introduction to the public procurement process. The second one focus on GPP. And finally, a third module to know the existing tools and technologies that allow to meet the environmental requirements in the furniture sector.  With an innovative methodology, each module consists of different videos, training material, practical exercises and additional material to go into depth on different topics.  During the last meeting the following issues were discussed:         - Review of delivered training materials: presentations, scripts, videos and additional materials         - Planning of the forthcoming work: finalization of the training materials preparation, recording of videos in/off voice and cartoon videos, translation in national languages, subtitles, etc.         - Planning of the pilot tests (October 2018), definition of numbers of professionals to be involved, The platform with all modules and training materials in different languages will be available for use to the professionals of the furniture sector in November 2018. The last project meeting will be organized next September/October of this year in Poznan, Poland, hosted by PULS.

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