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Fédération de la plasturgie - www.plasturgie-education.org
The French Plastics Industry Federation gathers 1,500 French companies. Its main missions are to define the professional guidelines and to provide initial and continuing training in the sector of plastics industry. Thus, its 50 training centres train 2,100 students and 600 apprentices every year. All its training programmes aim at responding to the needs of the labour market in the field of plastics industry. For a few years, The French Plastics Industry Federation has started to promote skills transparency and mobility in Europe for young people and adults. |
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Aris Formazione e Ricerca Società Cooperativa - www.arisformazione.it
Aris Formazione e Ricerca Società Cooperativa is a small-sized cooperative society, owned by cooperatives, that, since 1987, is planning, organising and managing the majority of actions for initial, continuous and advanced training for cooperative companies and their workers in the Italian Umbria Region, in all the activity sectors in which the cooperatives are operating, included the plastic sector (in particular, for separate collection and recycling activities, up till the production of regenerated plastic). Concerning the specific expertise and competence, Aris was leader of a sectoral regional re-qualification plan in Italy (cf. Umbrian Regional Regulation “Regolamento della Regione Umbria 4 marzo 2003, n. 4”), and coordinator of the LdV ToI project Highlight the Competences, which is already experimenting the transfer of the DEPD, improving EQF, ECVET and Europass, but in the VET systems of cleaning and logistics services. |
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Europäisches Bildungswek für Beruf und Gesellschaft gGmbH - EBG
www.ebg.de
The EBG was founded in 1990 in Düsseldorf as an independent and non-profit incorporated society. Since 2006 the EBG is a non-profit association for education and further education as well as for the bearers of nationally acknowledged technical and vocational schools. At the moment it has over 32 education centres in Germany and further centres in Europe and Asia, with more than 300 employees and about 1000 freelancer regularly working for the association. The education and further education offering comprises the professional fields of social pedagogy, therapy and care as well as different branches of engineering and professional education in the commercial, IT, media and tourist branch and also practical management for specialists and executives and language training. |
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European Plastics Converters – EuPC - www.plasticsconverters.eu
EuPC is the EU-level Trade Association, based in Brussels, representing European Plastics Converters. Its powerful European Plastics Network exists to support the beneficial use of plastics worldwide, especially providing plastics converting companies with a voice in European legislation. EuPC now totals about 51 European Plastics Converting national and European industry associations, it represents close to 50,000 companies, producing over 45 millions tonnes of plastic products every year. EuPC is structured into 3 Market Divisions representing the main markets of the plastics converting industry: Packaging, Building and Construction, Automotive and Transport. EuPC’s overall objective is to defend and promote the interests of the European plastics converting industry through the following activities:
- Voicing the industry’s opinion towards European and international institutions and non-governmental organisations;
- Maintaining relationships with corresponding organisations in Europe and worldwide;
- Carrying out business surveys, studies and research projects in all aspects of the plastics processing industry.
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Zakład Doskonalenia Zawodowego – ZDZ - www.zdz.kielce.pl
The Vocational Training Centre in Kielce was and is still a partner of several projects. ZDZ participates in scientific research concerning the description of vocational qualifications and competences. This organization is an educational association whose tradition goes back to the 19th century. Since the beginning of the 1960s the ZDZ organization is working under the name of “The Centre for Vocational Development”. To continue this tradition we educate and train youth and adults in numerous vocations and specializations. We lead school and courses. Our training courses offer an opportunity to prepare for:
- a specific vocation,
- to improve one’s qualifications,
- change one’s occupation,and are well adjusted to the requirements of the changing labour market. Every year about 30 000 people benefit from our courses. We also train youth and adults: at high school, vocational, comprehensive and post-secondary schools. Training is organized in specialised Centres of vocational education and training, Simulation Companies and Job Clubs. The ZDZ Job Agency offers information and assistance in finding work-places to the unemployed and to the best course leavers. We are an Educational Association, strong involved in the implementation of ECVET, in the creation of new vocational standards and the providing of modular training.
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Kenniscentrum PMLF - www.pmlf.nl
Knowledge Centre PMLF has executed legal tasks in the field of secondary vocational education for more than 50 years in the Netherlands in the areas of Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Laboratory Technology and Photonics (PMLF). It’s legal tasks are:
- Development and maintenance of transparent qualification structure in its sector
- Accreditation of TRAINING companies
- Improvement of quality of practical training within companies
Knowledge Centre PMLF is a foundation and is an independent division within the VAPRO-OVP group. The VAPRO-OVP group consists of approximately 130 employees in five countries (Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, China, and Indonesia) and performs tasks in addition to the legal activities such as development and issuance of training materials for industry, trade examination and certification and training to handle specific questions of businesses and schools. Furthermore, the group has extensive experience in conducting large multidisciplinary projects in both the Netherlands and abroad, often in cooperation with schools, businesses, and associations and social organizations. The board of the Knowledge Centre PMLF consists of representatives of relevant employers and workers' organizations, under an independent chair. The Knowledge Centre PMLF consists of professional consultants with expertise in process engineering, environmental engineering, laboratory technology and photonics. |
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Asociacion Española De Industriales De Plásticos - ANAIP - www.anaip.es
ANAIP, the Spanish Association of Plastics Industries, in non- profit professional organization, constituted by companies of the plastic sector of all Spain. It represents the Spanish plastics industry, a sector comprising 4.200 companies and 99.700 employees. Constituted in 1957, is an entity focussed on being a meeting place for companies working in plastic sector, either manufacturers, transformers, recycle performers or retailers. Nowadays, ANAIP consists of different associations, both sectorial and regional. Among its publications are: "Plastics in Society", "Plastics and Fire, "Plastics: materials of our time" (published in cooperation with (CEP), "Strategic Training Program for the Plastics Industry in Spain. A sectorial and trend analysis".
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